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Google Is Bringing The Redesigned Gmail’s Side Panel To Other G Suite Apps

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Google a few months ago released its most significant Gmail update in years, refreshing the designing of its popular email app and adding a bunch of neat features meant to improve the overall email experience further and increase productivity—Fast forward, the tech giant has announced that one of the brand new design changes that hit Gmail earlier this year will also be available on other G Suite apps. Google is expanding the side panel in the revamped version of Gmail to other G Suite apps in an effort to make navigation and multi-tasking for users smoother and quicker—With the new sidebar, users would be able to access three G Suite products from Docs itself - Sheets, Slides, and Drawings. "We"re adding a quick-access side panel to the Docs editors and Google Calendar to help you quickly access other G Suite products without leaving what you"re working on," the G Suite team wrote in a blog post . The quick-access side panel which is available on the right side of...

Gmail For Android Introduces The ‘Undo’ Feature That Lets You ‘Unsend’ Emails

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Ever hit send on an email and regretted it immediately? Now you can undo it even on your Android phone"s Gmail app—The feature, which is already available on the web version of Gmail, as well as Google’s Inbox app for Android and iOS, is now available on the Gmail app version 8.7 and up, according to Android Police . The "Undo Send" feature has been in Gmail Labs for many years since it was introduced in March 2009. It finally arrived on the Web in 2015, and has finally made its way to Android now. Another feature that Gmail recently introduced on mobile was Confidential Mode, which essentially allows user to send emails to others that will self-destruct after a point of time. How it works . The feature works in a similar manner like its desktop variant, but there is no functionality to manually set the time slot for cancellation, or even disable it. Once you send a message, a snackbar at the bottom shows you a "sending" message with the option to cancel it whi...

Google’s Email App, Inbox, Finally Supports The iPhone X

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One of Google’s more popular apps is Inbox, its first-party email app. Its popularity isn’t just on Android, though, with iOS users adopting the app as their own, too. But for iPhone X owners, the Inbox app has been left without support since launch. That is finally changing today, though, as Google has officially updated the Inbox app for iOS to support the iPhone X and its notch design. The latest version of the app is available right now, at the time of publication. Over eight months after the super premium iPhone was unveiled . The Inbox by Gmail app for iOS devices has been updated with a support for the device. In a 144MB update pushed out on the App Store, Google said Inbox by Gmail now supports Apple"s priciest iPhone variant, with little else by way of changes in the update text. Announced on a limited invitation-only basis in October 2014 , Inbox by Gmail was officially released to the public on 28 May, 2015. The app offers you a feature called "highlights", wh...

Gmail v8.6 Adds Unsubscribe Tips And Promotional Email Bundling

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Gmail has been adopting a lot of features from Inbox lately, and in this update, it"s gaining one more. If you receive email from sites or services that almost never get read, Gmail can now offer helpful suggestions to unsubscribe from those mailing lists with the tap of a button. Just days after the arrival of customisable swipe actions , and high priority-based notifications . Gmail for Android has now been updated with an Unsubscribe tips feature that will show occasional suggestions to help you unsubscribe from bulk email senders you rarely read. The Unsubscribe tips feature, which is enabled by default, was originally announced back in April - alongside the major Gmail redesign that will be rolled out worldwide to everyone in July. It helps you get rid of unwanted newsletter emails by letting you easily unsubscribe from sites or services that rarely get read. The feature shows tips on the homescreen of the app with an Unsubscribe button that enables unsubscription with a sing...

Gmail For iOS Gets AI-Based Smart Notifications For High-Priority Emails

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Gmail has dozens of new features to help users manage their inbox, thanks to new Google updates. The search-engine giants have improved Gmail services, creating a number of new tricks to tidy up your emails. Google has simplified the basics of email management to make it easier to send and receive emails. The company announced an update to its Gmail app for iOS that lets users limit notifications to "high priority" emails only. The new feature uses Gmail"s machine learning and artificial capabilities to identify emails you may want to read first. Some people don"t get very much email each day, so things remain pretty manageable. However, if your inbox is regularly hammered all day long, especially by unimportant messages, the notifications it can produce are nothing short of infuriating. The Gmail team is building a very simple and obvious solution that will cut down on some of that notification spam. “Notifications are only useful if you have time to read them—and ...

Gmail For Android Now Lets You Customise Swipe Actions

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Using your Gmail account is set to become all the more easier for Android users as Google has started rolling out new gesture features that allow you to perform different actions, including deleting an email or archiving it, by simply swiping the email in different directions. The Gmail desktop site got a huge redesign in late April , but since then, the Android app has remained more or less the same. Over the past few weeks. Google has updated Gmail with features like Smart Compose , a Snooze Email Button, Better G-Suite Integration, and among many others. However, the v8.5.20 update adds a handy trick— a customisation swipe actions. In the new version 8.5.20, jumping into the Gmail app , go to Settings , you then press General settings . From there, you will notice that the ‘ Swipe actions ’ checkbox was replaced with a ‘Swipe actions’ menu that opens a separate page. The Swipe Actions page shows what you will like to place on each direction and it can e...

PayPal Will Work Inside Gmail, YouTube And More Through Google Pay

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Now you"ll be able to use PayPal, with your Google Pay account, to pay for items in Gmail, YouTube. Google and PayPal are extending their partnership to allow you to use your PayPal account to pay for things across the Google, including Gmail, YouTube, and the Google Store. Better yet, if you link your PayPal account to Google Pay, you won’t have to keep signing in to PayPal every time you want to make a transaction. However, this isn"t the first time for both companies to work together. Since 2014, Google Play users have been able to purchase apps and games thru their PayPal accounts. But this new relationship goes deeper than that plain integration — it means Google users likely won"t have to leave Google"s apps and services just to be able to pay for stuff using their PayPal accounts. It makes payments easier, more frictionless, and intuitive. As TechCrunch notes. "PayPal and Google Pay share common goals of creating simple payment solutions across our plat...

Gmail’s Smart Compose Will Write Emails For You

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Gmail users have had Smart Reply for over a year, but the mail service is getting even smarter. At its annual developer conference, Google CEO- Sundar Pichai- announced Smart Compose , an upcoming feature that would finish entire sentences for you as you compose. "Last year, we introduced Smart Reply in Gmail to help you quickly reply to incoming emails. Today, we"re announcing Smart Compose, a new feature powered by artificial intelligence, to help you draft emails from scratch, faster," Google stated. "Because it operates in the background, you can write an email like you normally would, and Smart Compose will offer suggestions as you type. When you see a suggestion that you like, click the "tab" button to use it." The feature is an extension of Gmail’s Smart Reply feature . Smart Compose will suggest complete sentences within the body of an email as you are writing. It will operate in the background, and if you see a phrase pop up that you like, ju...

Gmail’s Biggest Ever Redesign Is Now Live – Here’s How To Enable It Right Now

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We knew a significant Gmail redesign was in the works, as the changes report was leaked earlier last month   and Now The world’s most popular email service is making the changes official . Well, it looks like that time has come and the brand new Gmail features are now available to some users. Today, Google announced that all you have to do to get them is go to the Settings  and select the T ry the new Gmail option — if you can’t see it yet, don’t worry, it’s coming soon. You can also switch back to classic Gmail. So what"s new? More buttons to push Gmail is now making it easier for users to interact with emails and their contents. Firstly, while Hovering over their email user can get a new menu that lets them quickly deal with their loads of email at ease. You can archive, delete, mark as read, or snooze an email without opening it. Smart Reply on the web Smart Replies which allows users to get instant message option replies below their  r...

Google Readying New Design For Gmail That Includes A Snooze Email Button And Better G-Suite Integration

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Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service developed by Google. With over 1.2 billion users , it is the second-most popular email client out there, available in over 72 languages. Users can access Gmail on the web and using third-party programs that synchronise email content through POP or IMAP protocols. Get ready for a few changes to the Gmail screen billions of people will wake up to: Google is contemplating a new design and new features for Gmail. The company recently sent out notices to a few G Suite administrators, the ones who oversee your work email, alerting them to a new Gmail version coming soon through an opt-in Early Adopter Program. As spotted by TechCrunch , the new version of Gmail is expected to implement a “a fresh clean look for Gmail on the web” as well as several interesting new features. The new version will offer support for “snoozing” your emails for a present period of time, the same way you tell your alarm to shut up for nine ...