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Google on Tuesday announced the rollout of background noise filtering for the Google Meet app on Android and iOS, bringing to mobile a feature first introduced with the Meet desktop app over the summer. Starting today, the Meet app should be able to intelligently silence background noises including both nearby distractions, like typing and doors …

If you’ve ever deleted a Gmail contact and only later realized what a big mistake you’ve made, you can relax as long as you made the change in the last 30 days. Regardless of how many contacts you add or delete, Gmail keeps a 30-day history of every contact in your address book. So if you accidentally delete one or …

Google Drive will start automatically deleting your trash files after 30 days, Google said this week. The new trash policy will begin Oct. 13. If users have items that have been in their trash folder for months, those files will remain there until 30 days after the new policy starts. Gmail and other G Suite services already follow this policy. …

Gmail appears to be working again Thursday after people worldwide reported disruptions to a number of Google services over about seven hours.  A widespread outage of the popular Google services began shortly after 9 p.m. PT Wednesday. People reported issues in the US, Europe and parts of Asia including India, Japan, Singapore and Australia, according to outage monitoring site DownDetector. …

Yes, you can apply a systemwide dark theme across Google’s and Apple’s mobile OSes with Android 10, and iOS 13. But if you just want dark mode a la carte, Gmail can easily comply — we’re about to show you how. Thanks to products such as Facebook Messenger and the Reddit and Slack apps, the popularity of dark modes for apps was already growing before Google and Apple finally embraced …

Google on Wednesday announced a major redesign for Gmail, aiming to expand the app beyond an email service and into a hub for planning projects and chatting with co-workers. The update brings Gmail in more direct competition with other productivity apps from rivals including Slack and Microsoft, which has a product called Teams.  The idea is to bring Google’s separate …

If you’re one of the millions of people who became a Google Meet video chat devotee during lockdown, good news: You can now access Meet directly from the Gmail app on Android and iOS, making it easier to join video calls from your phone. In April, Google made Meet and its premium features, such as unlimited call time and screen …

Even months after it first arrived, Gmail’s schedule send tool is easily one of Google’s best email features. This tool keeps you from being the person who sends emails over the weekend, or in the middle of the night, if you’re sending a message to a colleague in another time zone — as we frequently do in our new work-from-home …

Google Chrome is the world’s most popular browser, and for good reason. It’s packed with useful tools that connect you to the internet every day, like dark mode, toolbar playback controls and a “privacy sandbox” coming later this year. But it’s also hard to keep up with all the browser changes. After all, you can’t very well store your login credentials in Chrome’s password …

From bank statements to personal letters, and even password reset requests, your Gmail account holds an abundance of personal information. If someone were to access it, they’d effectively have access to the rest of your online identity.  Instead of just hoping that hackers don’t find you, take 10 minutes and secure your Gmail account right now.  Read more: 6 clever Gmail …