Google Inbox is dead. Long live Google Inbox! As of today, Google’s beloved email app Inbox is no more. Fans loved it because it took a different approach to managing email by breaking out messages into different categories instead of one long list, as Gmail does. It’s a downright shame that it’s gone. But before …
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Google Inbox, the much-loved, experimental email client that launched in 2014, is officially dead. And I am officially heartbroken. I knew this was going to happen. We all did. It still hurts. Google announced that Inbox’s time was up on Sept. 12, 2018, writing in a blog post the company was shutting it down and “planning to focus solely on Gmail.” Over …
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As someone who uses an Android phone and an iPhone, having different capabilities on the same app can be mildly infuriating. Case in point: With Gmail on my Android phone, I can archive, delete, trash, mark as unread, move or snooze individual emails by swiping left or right from my inbox. It’s an incredibly convenient way to file away my …
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The Inbox by Gmail app will join Google+ in digital oblivion in two weeks, it seems. We’ve known for a few months that Google would be discontinuing the personalized email app, but some people using it on Android devices got a notification saying it will shut down on April 2 and a link pushing them to the main Gmail app. “This …
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Gmail and Google Drive are back up after an hours-long outage affecting people around the world. “The problem with Gmail should be resolved,” reads a message posted at 11:13 p.m. PT Tuesday on Google’s GSuite Status Dashboard. “We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support. Please rest assured that system reliability is a top priority …
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Gmail is rolling out new right-click menu options that’ll let you reply to, forward and search for emails directly from your inbox, the company said Monday. Users will be able to search for all emails from a sender as well as all emails with the same subject. They’ll also be able to open multiple emails in new windows at the …
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Google’s upcoming Android Q may add a system-wide dark mode. “Dark mode is an approved Q feature,” Google’s Lukasz Zbylut wrote in the Chromium bug tracker, according to Android Police. “The Q team wants to ensure that all preloaded apps support dark mode natively. In order to ship dark mode successfully, we need all UI elements to be ideally themed dark …
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Google doesn’t want Gmail to predict someone’s gender. The email service’s Smart Compose technology won’t suggest gender-based pronouns because the risk of offending someone is too high, Google product leaders told Reuters. Google’s Paul Lambert said the change came about after a company research scientist typed “I am meeting an investor next week” and Smart Compose suggested “Do you want …
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After you have taken the necessary steps to shop on Amazon without spoiling holiday surprises, the next step is to lock down shipping notifications from Google. My kids borrow my iPhone all the time to play music, watch YouTube videos and Google stuff. I’ve already had a few close calls where a shipping notification from the Google search app nearly …
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Fans of Inbox by Gmail will have to learn to love the plain-old Gmail app. On Wednesday, Google announced that it’s discontinuing Inbox at the end of March 2019. Unveiled in 2014, Google’s Inbox offered a more personalized email app than the standard Gmail app. It brought functions like snoozing emails, AI-powered Smart Reply and organized folder bundles. With these …
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