Native Gmail App for iOS Reportedly Set to Launch

[kirky29]

This'd make me happy!
Then I could have the native app for my personal email, and the Gmail app for the work email. At the moment I just keep my personal email on my iPhone, the work email gets too many emails and the number icon gets too high for me to cope with!

 

[SAD*FACED*CLOWN]

why is this needed? the mail app is fine

 

[bpaluzzi]

why is this needed? the mail app is fine

Go into mail.app and set it up so that:
1 - you receive push notifications
2 - when you delete a message, it's really deleted
3 - you can assign multiple labels to a message
4 - you can mark something as spam

You can't do 3 or 4 at all, and you can't do 1 and 2 together.

That's why this is needed (for some people)

 

[BoxerGT2.5]

How about a native google talk app????? Lets get that.

 

[ericrwalker]

I am a person with a few email addresses. A Gmail, work email, and my own hosted domain email through gmail apps. I don't ever see myself using a native app since I like the mail app that came with the phone to host all my email addresses.


EDIT: Though I don't see a problem with giving people a choice.

 

[justinfreid]

I really enjoy the iOS Mail App, however I'd love to have my labels. So with that in mind, I'm hoping this is true!

- Atrus

Just so you know, you can manage labels through the folder system in Mail.app.

 

[bpaluzzi]

Just so you know, you can manage labels through the folder system in Mail.app.

Only if you treat labels as folders (one to many). Labels aren't, though. They're many-to-many. And there's no way to use that functionality in Mail.app

 

[cvaldes]

apple should have their own mail system, so we wouldn't have to use gmail or msn or yahoo. appledavie@apple.com

They do.

You can get a free me.com address when you sign up for iCloud. Apple still supports legacy users of the MobileMe service which was a direct descendant of the .Mac service (Apple still manages mac.com addresses). The me.com mail servers allegedly run on Sun Solaris boxes with Oracle software.

Note that apple.com e-mail addresses exist, but they are reserved for corporate use (e.g., employees, retail stores). You will never have an apple.com e-mail unless your paychecks come from Apple Inc.

There is absolutely no requirement that you have to use Gmail/MSN/Yahoo. The built-in Mail app will use basically any standard e-mail system that supports POP3 or IMAP protocols. Heck, you could run your own e-mail server and it would work with that. No one is twisting your arm into using Gmail/MSN/Yahoo/whatever.

 

[Le Big Mac]

I would love for this to happen. I am getting road killed here without the Send Email As feature. Also on Mac OS X Lion, I need a Gmail App that allows me to use Send Email As and import all mail to my computer.

Why can't you put in your "as" address as the "send from"? You have to add the address in the gmail web interface.

On the iPhone, if you want to be able to choose, type out all your send from email addresses (in notes, or wherever), separate by commas, and then select all of them. Copy. Then go into email settings, and in send from field paste that selection. It will paste all the email addresses there, and then you will get a drop-down menu you can activate when you send a message to choose among them.

 

[gloryunited]

Yes and your assumptions are making a true ass out of yourself. If you have used Gmails mail app on ANY other device you would see they do not contain any ads what so ever. And by that I mean not a single ad whats so ever.

Apple would shove ones of its iAds down on your threw its mail client before Google would.

I've been using and loving Gmail since the day of 7 invitations per user. But what you've said is not true. Gmail does have a line of ads (no picture) above the inbox.

They even include some SPAM recipes there, in the Spam section, for fun.

Back to the topic, I'd LOVE a Gmail app on my iPhone 4S (will buy it soon)!

 

[Sardonick007]

Options Good

Regardless of what the centrists feel or comment on, I think an option like this is a good thing to balance out those who might not otherwise enjoy the way things are currently. Personally, it doesn't matter to me because my droid does well with its own app and my Macs do well with their fast connections. As options go, however, this is another example of good cross platforming aimed at the user base.

 

[MacBoy88]

Go into mail.app and set it up so that:
1 - you receive push notifications
2 - when you delete a message, it's really deleted
3 - you can assign multiple labels to a message
4 - you can mark something as spam

You can't do 3 or 4 at all, and you can't do 1 and 2 together.

That's why this is needed (for some people)

1) Set it up with ActiveSync
2) MOVE the message to the trash, do not use the trash icon as it will archive the message.
3) Not sure....I have a ton of filters that do that for me...
4) MOVE the message to the SPAM folder. It's now marked as SPAM

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Why can't you put in your "as" address as the "send from"? You have to add the address in the gmail web interface.

On the iPhone, if you want to be able to choose, type out all your send from email addresses (in notes, or wherever), separate by commas, and then select all of them. Copy. Then go into email settings, and in send from field paste that selection. It will paste all the email addresses there, and then you will get a drop-down menu you can activate when you send a message to choose among them.

If you set it up with ActiveSync, go to m.google.com, tap sync, select your device and enable send mail as checkbox. SIMPLE!

 

[bpaluzzi]

1) Set it up with ActiveSync
2) MOVE the message to the trash, do not use the trash icon as it will archive the message.
3) Not sure....I have a ton of filters that do that for me...
4) MOVE the message to the SPAM folder. It's now marked as SPAM

1 is possible, as I said, but it breaks the delete function.
2 is a hack, due to the Exchange ActiveSync.
3 isn't possible
4 doesn't do anything other than moving the message. it doesn't report back to Google as Spam, which means it won't improve your spam algorithm

 

[justinfreid]

1 is possible, as I said, but it breaks the delete function.
2 is a hack, due to the Exchange ActiveSync.
3 isn't possible
4 doesn't do anything other than moving the message. it doesn't report back to Google as Spam, which means it won't improve your spam algorithm

Moving any message to the spam folder in any manner causes Google to analyze it. Check Google's support docs on Outlook and iOS.

 

[bpaluzzi]

Moving any message to the spam folder in any manner causes Google to analyze it. Check Google's support docs on Outlook and iOS.

Wow, that's awesome Okay, then I was definitely wrong on that. Good to know. Still would be nice to have a one-click "Mark as spam" (including multiple message select), but at least the functionality is available.

 

[MacBoy88]

1 is possible, as I said, but it breaks the delete function.
2 is a hack, due to the Exchange ActiveSync.
3 isn't possible
4 doesn't do anything other than moving the message. it doesn't report back to Google as Spam, which means it won't improve your spam algorithm

1. Gmail, by design, prefers archiving over deleting a message
2. Not a hack, its by design - "Delete a message in inbox > Move that message to Archive"
4. Not according to Google - "Move a message to Spam > Report a message as spam"

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Wow, that's awesome Okay, then I was definitely wrong on that. Good to know. Still would be nice to have a one-click "Mark as spam" (including multiple message select), but at least the functionality is available.

In your inbox, click edit, mark the multiple messages you want to move, tap move > then spam. You just marked multiple messages as SPAM

 

[dashiel]

Google bringing the confusing and ambiguous feature set of Android to iOS.

Contrary to my $200 MobileMe experience of over two years, Googles free services have never disappointed.

If you’re not paying for a product or service - you are the product.

Yes and your assumptions are making a true ass out of yourself. If you have used Gmails mail app on ANY other device you would see they do not contain any ads what so ever. And by that I mean not a single ad whats so ever.

You don’t understand how Gmail works? Google reads your email, just like it tracks your web usage to better tailor your ad experience. You don’t see ads in native Gmail clients, but that’s not where they make their money. Google sells the content of your email to advertisers. You didn’t think it was coincidence when you sent an email to your friend about the new Xbox game then the next time you surfed the web you saw an ad for said game did you?

Now I’m not saying ad tailoring is a bad thing, to the contrary if I’m going to see an ad I’d like it to be about something I am interested in, but it’s important to understand that Google and “free” isn’t some magnanimous gesture and there isn’t a cost involved.

 

[Menel]

The one thing I miss (using Gmail on Apple's Mail.app) is the ability to go onto the server to search. If this app has that feature, then I'm sold.

qft

Though you could, and I have contemplated this, but haven't made jump.

Configure exchange for Google, and only sync cal and contacts for push sync, but leave mail set off.

Then create a regular gmail account, for the email portion. Yea don't get email push, but would have server side searching...

 

[GiantSteve]

Uh, what? How does this benefit Apple, exactly? It's definitely to Google's benefit for iOS users to use their native app, then Apple's native app. And yes, it benefits iOS users too, as they now have a choice. But I don't see how the hell this is an act of altruism, as you suggest, or 'treating Apple well'. If anything, Apple would much prefer you use the mail app for gmail.

This benefits Apple by providing users of one of the biggest email platforms with a fully functioning clients that takes advantage of all the Gmail functionality. I know for me, and many other Android users, a native Gmail client will make switching to iPhone very attractive.

So in the middle of a platform war making it easier for users of your biggest competitor to switch to your side is a huge advantage.

 

[FSUSem1noles]

No thanks, that's just another icon and app that will have to go on my home screen or in my dock.. I'll continue using the default mail app..

 

[Westside guy]

Having used both OSes, I prefer iOS over Android by a significant margin - but there are a few Google-specific apps I'd miss if I got an iPhone. Gmail is one of those, so this is great news!

(another is Google's Navigation with Voice, which is amazing for a free app)

 

[AppleInLVX]

Hm. Since I bought the 4s, I've wanted to move to apple mail entirely, and have done for the most part. Thing is, the spam filtering is orders of magnitude better in gmail. I get more spam than real mail at apple, and the system works better in google. I love everything about the Apple ecosystem, but they've got to at least get spam under control. I subscribe no where, I give out my .me address to no one I don't know personally. Given how xenophobic I am with my address, it shocks me the level of spam I get from apple, and I am totally lasse faire with my gmail account, and I get maybe one spam a month.

Apple needs to up its game with this. Is it because gmail is such a group thing that when anyone marks a message as spam, it propagates to the whole system? Whatever they're doing, it's awesome, and it's why I'll use this, in spite of my desire to move away. Sigh.

 

[Drumjim85]

Contrary to my $200 MobileMe experience of over two years, Googles free services have never disappointed.

Thanks Google

Maybe someone else already said this, but Google's products aren't free. You're just the product they're selling, not the client.

 

[bigjnyc]

Yes and your assumptions are making a true ass out of yourself. If you have used Gmails mail app on ANY other device you would see they do not contain any ads what so ever. And by that I mean not a single ad whats so ever.

Apple would shove ones of its iAds down on your threw its mail client before Google would.

By ANY other device do you mean android devices where Google already makes money off licensing the OS? Remember they dont make any money in iOS, and the app will be free so they could very well make that version ad-supported

The moral of the story is dont make assumptions and dont call someone else an ass for making one while slipping in an assumption of your own.

 

[rwilliams]

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You can't think of a use for labels?

Well I have like 25k messages in my main gmail account and hundreds of labels. I don't know how anyone who gets more than 5 emails a day not use them.

Wow, that's a lot of email. I used to hoard messages like that, but realized that I never went back to them, so they were taking up space for no reason. And as I've gotten older, I can't stand clutter.