How to Make a Quiz in Google Forms on iPhone (2026)
Quiz Mode Is a Switch, Not a Different Product
A Google Forms quiz is an ordinary form with Make this a quiz toggled on in Settings. The switch adds three abilities: an answer key per question, points, and feedback. You can flip it on a finished form — questions, link, and existing responses all survive — so building the questions first and keying them afterwards is a perfectly good workflow on a phone.
Setting Answer Keys from iPhone
- Select a question and tap Answer key (bottom-left of the card).
- Mark the correct answer — one choice, several checkboxes, or accepted short-answer texts.
- Set the point value; zero is allowed for ungraded items mixed in.
- Optional but worth it: Add answer feedback — an explanation (or a link) shown after grading, which is what turns a practice quiz into a teaching tool.
Auto-grading covers multiple choice, checkboxes, dropdown, and short answer (exact text match — add spelling variants you will accept). Paragraph and file-upload questions collect normally but wait for your manual points; that half of the workflow is covered in auto-grading quizzes on iPad and iPhone.
The Three Decisions in Quiz Settings
- Grade release: Immediately (score on the confirmation screen) or Later, after manual review — required when any question needs hand-grading, and it needs email collection on so released grades have somewhere to go.
- What respondents see: missed questions, correct answers, point values. Practice quiz: all on. Assessment: correct answers off until everyone submits, or early finishers become the answer key.
- Integrity on mobile: Google’s locked mode is Chromebook-only and does not exist on iOS. The phone-realistic tools are shuffled option order, an explicit honor policy — and a countdown via a timer, which limits the googling-in-another-tab window more effectively than anything else available on a phone.
For the classroom wrapper around all this — attendance, exit tickets, permission slips — see Google Forms for teachers on iPad and iPhone.
Building a full quiz on a phone is genuinely doable in Safari; it is also twenty answer keys’ worth of tap-and-scroll. In our Forms for Google Drive iOS app the same quiz editing is native — and its AI generation can draft the whole question set from a topic or a document first, leaving you to adjust keys instead of typing questions.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I turn an existing form into a quiz?
Open Settings and toggle on 'Make this a quiz' — the form keeps every question and gains quiz abilities: answer keys, points, and feedback. Nothing about the form's link or responses changes, so you can convert a form that is already built and just add the keys afterwards.
Which question types can be auto-graded?
Types with definite answers: multiple choice, checkboxes, dropdown, and short answer (matched against the exact texts you list). Paragraph answers and file uploads always need manual review — Forms collects them and leaves the points to you, which is the follow-up covered in our grading guide.
When do students see their scores?
Your choice, in quiz settings: 'Immediately after each submission' shows the score on the confirmation screen; 'Later, after manual review' holds grades until you release them from the Responses tab. The 'later' option requires email collection to be on, because Google needs an address to send the released grade to.
Can students see which answers were correct?
You control three switches in quiz settings: missed questions, correct answers, and point values. For practice quizzes, turning all three on makes the quiz self-teaching. For real assessments, showing correct answers lets early submitters share the key — most teachers turn that off until everyone has finished.
Can I stop students from googling answers in another tab?
Not with an iPhone-friendly built-in. Google's locked mode exists but only on managed Chromebooks in Workspace for Education — it does not apply to phones. On iOS the practical integrity tools are shuffled question order, a time limit via a timer add-on, and question banks large enough that sharing answers is impractical.
How many points can each question be worth?
Any whole number, set per question in the answer key, including zero for survey-style items mixed into a quiz. The total shows at the top of the editor. Partial credit is possible on checkbox questions when grading manually, but auto-grading is all-or-nothing per question.