Google doesn’t offer you the option to resume filling your forms on its Google Forms service. That’s going to change, though, as the company will soon allow users to save their form responses as drafts. A user can then go back and start filling the form where they left.
How Responses in Google Forms Work
Currently, if you discard a half-filled form, your response is gone and you need to refill the form if you want to submit it. There’s no option to save your partially filled form in Google Forms.
That basically means you need to fill your form in one sitting, or you lose the data for all the fields that you’ve entered information in.
Google to Let You Save Your Form Responses as Drafts
Google has recently announced on Google Workspace Updates that it’s bringing a feature to let you save your partially filled forms. You’ll have a button to save your form in drafts, and then get back to you when you’re ready again.
Here’s Google’s official announcement for that feature:
With this new feature, you won’t have to start over if you can’t complete a form or quiz in one sitting, if you want to switch between multiple devices, or if your internet connection cuts out before your answers have been submitted.
Once this feature is available, all you will need to do is click a button to save your response in drafts. Google will preserve this data in drafts for 30 days from your last edit. This is an ample amount of time to get back to your partially filled form, fill it fully, and submit it.
Availability of Drafts in Google Forms
Google will be rolling out this feature to Google Workspace for Education customers first. This should happen in the next week or so.
The company plans to bring this feature to all Workspace users later this year.
How to Use Drafts in Google Forms
This feature is only available for beta users. Your Workspace admin needs to join the Draft Response Beta and seek approval to use this feature. Once Google approves the application, the feature will appear in your Workspace accounts.
Resume Filling Forms in Google Forms
With Google Forms’ drafts feature, you’ll no longer have to fill those lengthy forms in one sitting. You’ll be able to leave a form half-filled, and then get back to it at your convenience and resume from where you left.