Wear OS 3, which was introduced by Google last year, was the first indication after a long while that the company was finally getting serious about its wearable operating system. However, even with the release of Wear OS 3.5, run by Google's new flagship Pixel Watch, the experience is still lacking … [Read more...] about The Pixel Watch is rumored to be getting dedicated Gmail and Calendar apps
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How to keep your Gmail Inbox free of Spam and Promotions
Using its time-tested and refined algorithms, Gmail does a pretty good job of trying to keep our inboxes free of Spam, Junk emails, and unwanted promotions. It even utilizes inbox tabs to categorize your promotions, social, updates, and forum emails and keep them out of your primary email tab where … [Read more...] about How to keep your Gmail Inbox free of Spam and Promotions
A new Gmail update improves your email search results
As a result of new machine learning models, Gmail rolled out an update back in July, which resulted in search suggestions that were more accurate, customizable, and made more sense. When using the Gmail Search Box to look for a conversation, files, or a coworker's contact information, you would see … [Read more...] about A new Gmail update improves your email search results
Gmail adds glanceable package tracking info right in your inbox
Gmail has been around since 2004, and aside from the occasional redesign, the look and functionality of Gmail remain largely unchanged. Sure, there was Inbox by Gmail, which gave us certain features that have mostly been absorbed now by regular Gmail, but they were mostly geared towards organizing … [Read more...] about Gmail adds glanceable package tracking info right in your inbox
Gmail adds built-in tags to personalize mail merges for Workspace users
Mail merges, or multi-send, were introduced to Gmail a few months ago as an exclusive feature for higher-tiered Google Workspace customers. This feature lets you send a large number of emails without having to BCC everyone and includes a built-in link for recipients to unsubscribe if desired. … [Read more...] about Gmail adds built-in tags to personalize mail merges for Workspace users
Google Contacts adds filtering options just like Gmail chips
Following in the footsteps of apps like Gmail, Drive, Photos, and more, Contacts is poised to be the next Google app on Android to embrace search chip filters. To those unfamiliar, search chips are Material Design elements that use tags or descriptive words to filter content. They are a good … [Read more...] about Google Contacts adds filtering options just like Gmail chips
Gmail will spare political campaign emails from spam filter
Brace yourselves because more email Spam is coming. As a result of questions, concerns, and accusations regarding bias in the way Gmail's spam filtering works, particularly as it pertains to political campaign emails in the U.S., Google began back in June to plan on mitigating this. This was … [Read more...] about Gmail will spare political campaign emails from spam filter
[U: Fixed] New Gmail bug is displaying a warning banner on emails. Fix is in the works.
Update, July 10th, 12:40PM EST: The Google Workspace team provided the below update yesterday, July 9th, at 9:27PM UTC: The problem with Gmail has been resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support. Gmail users are experiencing an issue in … [Read more...] about [U: Fixed] New Gmail bug is displaying a warning banner on emails. Fix is in the works.
Gmail expands mobile notifications pause to favor desktop ones
Last month, a test rollout was discovered that prompted users to pause their Gmail mobile notifications in favor of Gmail notifications on the full browser. The feature simply paused notifications on your phone when it detected that you were using the desktop version of Gmail. At the time, we didn't … [Read more...] about Gmail expands mobile notifications pause to favor desktop ones
Gmail on Android getting new notification icons to differentiate between Chat and Spaces
A change is rolling out for Gmail on Android that will update the notification icons for "Chat" and "Spaces" that were previously indistinguishable from each other. This icon tweak was spotted by 9to5Google, who was able to replicate this on an Android device running Gmail version 2022.02.20.x. … [Read more...] about Gmail on Android getting new notification icons to differentiate between Chat and Spaces
Google Docs gains Gmail draft capabilities for Workspace customers
Google Workspace users got some excellent news yesterday with the announcement of the new email draft template feature that is making its way to Google Docs as we speak. This feature was teased last month as part of a celebratory post regarding the broad adoption of Smart Canvas features and the … [Read more...] about Google Docs gains Gmail draft capabilities for Workspace customers