Is there really still no unified inbox? I remember getting my iPhone 4S and assuming that that feature had to be coming soon. Ha!
I'll stick with Outlook. The newer mobile version is tremendous, where the desktop version still feels like it's 2001.
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I'll stick with Outlook. The newer mobile version is tremendous, where the desktop version still feels like it's 2001.
Looks good until you actually use it. I don't know why Google constantly needs to screw up basic iOS interface.
Like swipe to go back works in some places and not others even when there's clearly a back arrow in the top left corner.
Why do you have a hamburger menu that you can't slide to open?
Why do you have the same function when you slide from the left or the right?
Why the hell do touch targets in the hamburger menu get highlighted when you're only scrolling through the menu?
Outlook app and even Apple's Mail app are better.
Like swipe to go back works in some places and not others even when there's clearly a back arrow in the top left corner.
Why do you have a hamburger menu that you can't slide to open?
Why do you have the same function when you slide from the left or the right?
Why the hell do touch targets in the hamburger menu get highlighted when you're only scrolling through the menu?
Outlook app and even Apple's Mail app are better.
I never understood this. I asked the Gmail Inbox team about an option to do both and they said they consciously want one or the other. Makes no sense at all.I wish you could swipe left to delete/right to archive (or vice versa). Unfortunately it's a one-or-the-other setting.
12.9" iPad Pro screen resolution support, though. Hurray!Still no 3D Touch or Widget support
meh i moved onto Outlook, mainly for the Apple Watch integration...and havent looked back. i open the gmail maybe once a month to search something (a lot faster), but that's it.
although i see this new version fixes one of my biggest pet peeves with the Gmail app -- phone #s were not tappable. dates are still not, though.
although i see this new version fixes one of my biggest pet peeves with the Gmail app -- phone #s were not tappable. dates are still not, though.
I couldn't ever get into inbox because it was so different. I can see your point.
Gmail for Android has Exchange support, I believe. Until the iOS version does as well, I can't use this. Well, I can, but I'd still need to use another mail app for work, which seems a bit ridiculous.
Actually, having your work email pop up whenever you check your personal email seems a bit ridiculous to me.
Our work uses Google Apps for Education, so I have the Gmail app (with notifications disabled) for my work email - but my personal email is handled via Apple Mail. If it's after hours, I don't want to see my work email unless I make a deliberate decision to check it... which I limit to one or two times per evening.
Still boggles my mind how Gmail can only fetch email through the Mail app instead of Push. Even Yahoo mail has push.
I still wish they had offline access to all emails and offline search. Not every city in America has perfect internet access like Silicon Valley ;0
The Mail app has never worked consistently for me. While it is my favorite, I dare not go without the official Gmail app for notifications.
When I open the mail app at 3pm and it says "last update yesterday." I get really angry.
I just clicked on the link and viewed it on my MBP. You like this? No thank you.
I'm sure I'm not alone, but I just want a SIMPLE email program. If it wasn't for Google dropping push support, I'd have stayed with the native app.
I see a lot of confusion with the new UI. It looks like the Android version, so maybe it functions like the Android version as well. If it does, here are some answers to common complaints/questions:
To bring the left menu up without pressing the hamburger, swipe right from the very left edge of the screen.
To select a message, tap on the avatar on the left side of the message row.
Hope that helps/works
To bring the left menu up without pressing the hamburger, swipe right from the very left edge of the screen.
To select a message, tap on the avatar on the left side of the message row.
Hope that helps/works
Another big feature that appears to have been removed - in the old iOS Gmail client, by turning off the signatures capability, the signature you have set up for each "send as" email address on their servers through the desktop GMail would be appended based on which email address you are "sending as". This is now gone!
Huh? Works fine for me. Haven't tried any keyboard shortcuts, but text entry works.