Tag Archives: Gmail

Sometimes a feature has been missing for so long you just get used to not having it, That’s how we have felt about not being able to send multiple email attachments via Gmail in one go. That all changes, today. Google has announced that they are rolling out an update …

It seems it was a slow news week for several news outlets last week who decided to insinuate that Google was going to make Gmail users pay for storage. This is such an overly reductionist statement that it borders on misleading and is certainly manipulative at best. The premise of …

In case you never realised it until today, it was possible to have two separate images set as your account photos between Gmail and your Google account. Google has announced today that they are combining these photos into a single setting under your Google Account, unfortunately, they are not literally …

When Google announced Android 10 they shared some screenshots of various apps running their respective dark theme — one of them was Gmail although that wasn’t available to users, until now. Google have announced via their blog the roll out of Gmail dark theme. The new update will begin rolling …

Google’s stewardship of task management apps reminds me of its approach to chat / messaging apps; it just can’t seem to settle on a consistent approach, and so instead, it has 38 different approaches. Google had a stand-alone tasks service, which it then ditched, then integrated into Inbox, Keep and …

Widgets used to be one of the coolest features on Android, and if your favourite app didn’t support widgets, well you might’ve been quite upset. In 2019, most people simply don’t care. Lockscreen widgets basically don’t exist anymore, and while they’re still used on home screens, they’re not as prevalent …

With all the Inbox being kicked off the now-dead service, most are returning to Gmail and looking for a way to make the experience a bit .. cleaner. There are a few ways to do this, some of which we’ve already written about, but Simplify makes the experience cleaner and …

It feels like a flood of features have come to Gmail this week and there’s another one to come. The smart compose feature is  already pretty good, allowing you to rapidly auto-complete commonly written sentences and phrases, but now Google has extended that functionality to the subject line. Starting today, …

Inbox is gone now, and no amount of shed tears on the internet is going to bring it back. The good news, if it can be called that, is that Google is trying to bring as many features from Inbox across to Gmail. Seemingly, Google is doing this as quickly …

With a little under 4 days until Google rips Inbox from our loving arms, the Gmail team seems to be in feature overdrive. The latest feature to break cover is a change to how threaded conversations work. For some people threaded conversations are the best thing to happen to email …

With the imminent demise of Inbox only a few short days away, Google continues to bring enhanced functionality to the Gmail app on Android. Today’s update brings the ability to customise the email swipe actions (though it seems this might be newer on iOS than Android). By default swiping left …

Smart Compose in Gmail is basically predictive text taken to the next level. Unlike your keyboard, though, which predicts one word at a time, Gmail’s Smart Compose can predict whole sentences. The feature examines what you’re writing, and guesses the intent behind your communication. Smart Compose attempts to understand what …

Gmail has always offered a number of ways to interact with your mail. You can use the web app, or an app on your phone. You can use a full-blown desktop mail client (like Outlook), or others too. When using the web app, there’s the typical icons to archive mail, …

Who doesn’t hate email spam clogging up their inbox daily? Google is now working to fix this, with the Gmail team and Google recruiting its in-house machine learning framework, TensorFlow, to help train additional spam filters for Gmail users. Google has said, via the Gmail Blog overnight, that Gmail is …