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Impossible to select reCaptcha v2 Invisible

m2k
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When creating a new site reCaptcha via https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin/create

1. I select v2. 

2. "I'm not a  robot" is pre-selected

3. I click on 'invisible' 

4.  Screenshot 2025-01-02 135050.png

5. Now BOTH are selected. 

6. If a client uses this code they will get an error saying "This site key is not enabled for the invisible captcha."

This is currently preventing our clients from installing our form which relies on the invisible v2 reCaptcha. Would appreciate if it could be fixed or if there's any workaround to continue selecting invisible mode. 

Many thanks

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Hi @m2k,

Welcome to Google Cloud Community!

The behavior you’re encountering appears to be caused by a configuration issue in the reCAPTCHA admin console. When both "I'm not a robot" and "Invisible" options are selected, the site key generated becomes invalid for the invisible mode, resulting in the error: "This site key is not enabled for the invisible captcha."

Workaround:

You can check the following steps below if these may help  resolve this issue:

  1. In the reCAPTCHA admin console, ensure that "I'm not a robot" is deselected before selecting "Invisible" under the v2 option.
  2. Generate the site key and test its functionality in a controlled environment before deploying it.

You may verify your setup against Google’s official documentation for invisible reCAPTCHA v2. If the problem persists or happens again, I’d suggest reporting the bug to Google through our Issue Tracker in the reCAPTCHA category, this will not guarantee the time resolution of the concern but you may look into it if there are similar cases.

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Hi Greb, thanks for your response. 


  1. In the reCAPTCHA admin console, ensure that "I'm not a robot" is deselected before selecting "Invisible" under the v2 option.

     The options are both part of a radio group - which typically means 1 is always selected. Once you select v2 - the 'I'm not a robot' option is selected by default and there's no way to unselect it. Before, you could simply select the other option (invisible) and the initial option would unselect. That's how a radio group should work - but it's broken - and now you end up with both selected. I'll submit a bug where you mention but it seems like a big blocker for anyone wanting to use this. 

I am encountering this same issue in setting up a new client invisible key pair - I cannot deselect the 'I'm not a robot' option, so the generated keys do not work for the intended invisible recaptcha.

I have the same issue when visiting the page [https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin/create]  to create the invisible recaptcha key. There is no way to create [Invisible reCAPTCHA badge] ONLY key. I can not deselect the ["I'm not a robot" Checkbox] option. The key created is not valid for invisible recaptcha when using it in my website.

There is a work around for this.  Inspect element, delete the outer div for the "I'm not a robot Checkbox" (the one with no attributes) and then submit the form. This worked for us.

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