Taking control of your Gmail inbox while on the go could soon be a lot less painless thanks to a new update.
The email service has announced that it will add a “Select All” feature to the Gmail for Android app, allowing users to instantly select up to 50 emails in their inbox, or results from a search.
The company hopes the new addition will make clearing out your inbox easier for mobile users, who sometimes have to scroll through overcrowded message boxes looking for the right information.
Gmail for Android
The update is now rolling out, with Gmail users on Android able to download the updated version of the app from the Play Shop.
While the feature has been available on desktop for a long time, this is the first time it’s coming to mobile devices. The decision to limit the selection to a maximum of 50 emails is the same as the desktop version, which may sound like a shortcoming, but it is certainly a tool we use all the time.
The launch is the latest in a series of upgrades to the mobile version of Gmail, as the company aims to ensure users everywhere can get the most out of the app.
In June, Google announced that the AI-powered Help Me Write tool for Gmail would be coming to both Android and iOS to help users compose email responses. Help Me Write, which was previously only available to enrolled Workspace testers on desktop, can edit an email you’ve already written, or you can give the tool a quick prompt and it will compose the whole thing for you, before you get permission to edit it yourself, or use the same refinements to adjust the length and tone.
However, the company has also been accused of limiting the usability of its mobile apps by embedding ads in the middle of users’ inboxes, and recently it was also criticized for dropping the red icon that appears in notifications on Android devices to to indicate that they have a new email address. .
Through 95o5Google