To the form owner, yes by default — they see answers and a timestamp, with no name, email or IP address. Turning on 'Collect email addresses' or 'Limit to 1 response' forces a sign-in and identifies respondents. Google itself still logs requests regardless.
Last reviewed 1 September 2026
It depends who you mean. To the person who made the form, responses are anonymous by default. To Google, they are not.
By default: the answers and a submission timestamp. No name, no email, no IP address — Google does not expose respondent IP addresses to form owners at all.
That changes if either of these is on:
Google's own systems log requests, including IP addresses, as part of running the service. That is not visible to the form owner, but it means a form is not anonymous in the absolute sense — only in the sense that the owner cannot identify you.
Check it by opening the live form in a private window: if it does not ask you to sign in, it is not tying responses to accounts.
Anonymity and accountability pull against each other. A form that nobody has to sign in for cannot enforce one-response-per-person, and cannot tell you who has not replied yet. Decide which you actually need before turning settings on.
If a form asks respondents to sign in, some will assume their identity is being recorded even when "Collect email addresses" is off. It is not — but saying so at the top of the form is worth doing, because the sign-in prompt alone suppresses honest answers on sensitive surveys.
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