Google Slides
Google Slides is a web-based presentation app for creating, editing, sharing, and presenting slide decks from a browser or mobile device.
What is Google Slides?
Google Slides is presentation software for building slide decks, collaborating with others, and presenting content online. It is part of Google Workspace and is commonly used by students, teachers, teams, and businesses that work in shared cloud documents. Users can create presentations from templates, add text, images, charts, videos, animations, and speaker notes, then share them for viewing, commenting, or live editing. Slides works primarily in a web browser rather than as a traditional native Mac desktop app, and Google Drive for desktop can open Slides files and shortcuts in the browser. It also supports importing and exporting common presentation formats such as Microsoft PowerPoint, making it useful in mixed-office workflows.
Key features
- Create slide presentations in a web browser
- Collaborate with others in real time with comments and live editing
- Present live or share presentations for others to review later
- Use templates, images, videos, charts, and animations in slides
- Import and export Microsoft PowerPoint presentation files
- Access and edit presentations from mobile devices and offline in supported workflows
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Google Slides itself is a legitimate Google product, but the bundle ID com.google.drivefs.shortcuts.slides points to a Google Drive for desktop shortcut handler rather than a full native Slides app for macOS. That behavior is consistent with Drive opening Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides files in your web browser. If this item launches your browser to open cloud documents, that is expected. Use normal caution with shared links and cloud documents, especially if the item opens content from shared drives or external collaborators.
Recommendation: Keep this item if you use Google Slides or Google Drive on your Mac and want Slides files to open smoothly from Finder or Drive. If you do not use Google Workspace, you can remove the related shortcut integration without affecting unrelated Mac apps, though Slides links from Drive may stop opening as conveniently.
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