This huge revamped version of the e-mail service at nowadays offers enough of novel features such every bit confidential mode, offline support, e-mail snoozing in addition to more, to brand Gmail to a greater extent than smarter, secure, in addition to easier to use.
In this article, I direct keep listed details of the around meaning changes that you lot demand to know in addition to how to utilisation them. Give it a quick read.
New 'Confidential Mode' Features For Security & Privacy
Well, at nowadays you lot tin only click the lock icon at the bottom of an e-mail to enable the novel Confidential Mode, which lets you lot add together a bunch of extra layers of safety (as mentioned below) to the emails of your choice.
1) Self-Destructing Emails: This characteristic lets you lot shipping emails that disappear from the recipient's inbox after a current (between 1 twenty-four hours in addition to 5 years) you lot specify or which you lot tin revoke at whatever fourth dimension fifty-fifty after you lot direct keep sent them.
Here's How to Send Self-Destructing Emails inwards Gmail:
- Open Gmail on your estimator in addition to tap the compose button
- Select the 2d alternative from the correct side of the shipping push clit bar given inwards the bottom of the screen. It's a tiny lock amongst a clock on it.
- Now direct how long you lot desire the e-mail to alive earlier it self-destructs. You tin direct betwixt 1 twenty-four hours in addition to 5 years.
You are done. Now the e-mail volition automatically delete itself after the predetermined self-destruction fourth dimension current ends. The clock starts correct when you lot shipping the email, non when the recipient opens it.
If the recipient opens the e-mail until the predefined fourth dimension window you lot set, he/she volition able to read the email, or otherwise it volition vanish.
Besides this, you lot tin also revoke access to your emails if you lot want. For that, you lot demand to opened upwards Gmail, select "Sent," opened upwards the confidential e-mail you lot exactly sent in addition to and hence select "Remove Access."
2) Un-Forwardable Emails: Confidential emails opened upwards inwards a exceptional window that does non allow the recipient to forward, re-create or impress the email, though recipients tin nevertheless direct grip of a screenshot, or snap a photograph from their phone.
3) Two-factor Authentication (2FA) for Emails: If you're paranoid, you lot tin fifty-fifty enable 2FA for a unmarried email, requiring recipients to locomote into a hush-hush passcode shipping to them via SMS earlier opening it.
All the to a higher house Confidential Mode features piece of employment fifty-fifty amongst emails sent to non-Gmail users, requiring them to click on a link earlier opening confidential emails.
New Features That Wouldn't Let You Skip Important Emails
So, if you lot notice whatever emails that require a lengthy response cannot hold upwards responded immediately, you lot tin snooze the messages for later. Once snoozed, that e-mail volition shroud from the inbox in addition to demonstrate upwards i time again at the fourth dimension you lot chose.
This characteristic is already offered past times Google's Inbox app, the mobile version of Microsoft Outlook, but at nowadays Google has brought it to Gmail to aid you lot boost productivity.
2) Nudges: While snooze emails are laid past times you lot manually, nudges are those reminded to you lot past times Google.
To aid your trouble easier of going through massive amounts of emails to discovery of import emails, Gmail uses artificial word (AI) to remind you lot of those emails that sit down inwards your inbox unattended in addition to its AI thinks they are important.
Gmail volition demonstrate upwards these nudged emails at the top of your inbox amongst an indicator of how long it’s been sitting there.
3) Smart Replies: Not exactly Gmail intelligently reminds of of import emails to you, it also makes suggestions for tasks that you lot demand to do, similar replying to a for certain e-mail using "Smart Replies."
With Smart Replies, Google offers you lot intelligent touch-button responses to the spider web version of Gmail, a characteristic that was first introduced inwards 2015 for the mobile version of Gmail. You tin plough this off if you lot want.
New Features That Supercharge Your Productivity
1) Native offline mode: Until now, using Gmail without Internet requires a third-party Chrome plugin to hold upwards installed, but at nowadays amongst the built-in offline mode, you lot tin write responses to your emails piece on a flight, in addition to and hence sync your inbox in addition to shipping them i time you lot land—thanks to Progressive Web Apps (PWA).
2) High-priority notifications: This characteristic volition shipping you lot notifications for an incoming e-mail if Gmail thinks it is of import to you—based on factors similar how typically you lot respond to e-mail from the sender inwards question. These features were made available to Inbox users in conclusion year.
3) Gmail Tasks: Existed every bit a to-do listing application inside Gmail for years, Gmail Tasks is available every bit part of Gmail in addition to every bit a standalone app for iOS in addition to Android. The characteristic has also been given a major upgrade to contend piece of employment on the go—from your messages to your calendar.
The biggest novel alter inwards Gmail is the sidebar to the right, which gives you lot quick access to a novel version of Google Tasks, pop-up versions of Google Calendar, Keep note-taking app, in addition to 3rd-party services that utilisation Gmail's improver technology, similar Asana, Dialpad, in addition to DocuSign.
4) Inbox enhancers: You tin at nowadays direct accept actions on an e-mail without opening it every bit you lot tin direct opened upwards attachments inwards an e-mail without having to click into the e-mail itself. You tin also RSVP to calendar invitations in addition to fifty-fifty snooze messages without opening them.
5) One-tap unsubscribe prompt: Although Gmail already has a characteristic that lets users unsubscribe from ads in addition to other mass e-mail lists you lot don't respond to, at nowadays Gmail proactively inquire you lot tounsubscribe specific lists when it notices you lot don’t tend to click or you lot e'er insta-delete.
6) Anti-Phishing Enhancements: Though Google is already offering anti-phishing functionalities to warn its Gmail users of phishing attempts, the companionship has at nowadays increased the size of the banners (a gigantic, billboard-like message) it puts on top of dodgy emails to warn users they should non click the links within.
Also, if you lot teach an e-mail that is supposedly from i of your contacts, but originates from an unfamiliar e-mail address, Gmail volition say you lot that something may hold upwards wrong.
Here's How to Get New Gmail Right Now
If you lot are a regular Gmail user, you lot tin enable the novel Gmail past times clicking on the Settings icon inwards the top-right corner, in addition to hence select "Try the novel Gmail" option, if available.
If you lot are using the G Suite draw of piece of employment concern human relationship for piece of employment or school, you lot tin enable the novel Gmail through the Early Adopter Program.
The administrator tin utilisation the Google Admin console in addition to opt-in to the novel Gmail.
However, it should hold upwards noted that all the features every bit mentioned to a higher house volition non hold upwards directly available at this moment.
Features available at the launch include smart replies, snooze emails in addition to a novel tool panel on the correct side of Gmail's interface for apace accessing Tasks in addition to Calendar.
