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Native Gmail App Returns to App Store
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Gurr.. I can't use it with my school's mail because Google doesn't "host" the account. I sent a suggestion, maybe in the next update.
Labels. If you have 21 labels and filters like I do for school, work, and internships it is (would be) a blessing to see the labels in my inbox on my iPhone.
If you don't use labels or "most important" flags, then there is probably no reason for you to use it.
Labels. If you have 21 labels and filters like I do for school, work, and internships it is (would be) a blessing to see the labels in my inbox on my iPhone.
If you don't use labels or "most important" flags, then there is probably no reason for you to use it.
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Would have been fine pre-notification centre, but it seems to really miss the mark on iOS5 with no visuals.
Would have been fine pre-notification centre, but it seems to really miss the mark on iOS5 with no visuals.
Agreed; notifications is sub-par. Hope they fix this fast.
However, there is another thing... why hasn't the gmail webapp gotten *native* scrolling momentum yet? Apple introduced a web API in iOS 5 that allows webapps to have native scrolling momentum!
However, there is another thing... why hasn't the gmail webapp gotten *native* scrolling momentum yet? Apple introduced a web API in iOS 5 that allows webapps to have native scrolling momentum!
Yeah, I was waiting quite a while for that one. Their old app was astonishingly useless.
Funnily through this thread, I've found out that one can use Gmail Push via Microsoft Exchange. That was the only reason I wanted Google's own mail app badly. Not anymore. Now that I know about the Microsoft Exchange workaround, I've deleted the Gmail app. First, the icon is butt ugly (the only black icon on my springboard), second, the interface is no different from their web app, which is unacceptable considering all their resources.
Will be patiently waiting for Sparrow's Gmail app, which is due early next year. Those guys (just like people behind Tapbots) have some exceptional design skills.
Will be patiently waiting for Sparrow's Gmail app, which is due early next year. Those guys (just like people behind Tapbots) have some exceptional design skills.
Thats pretty much what this is! (With the addition of sort-of-functional incoming mail alerts... while the iOS native mail app has FULLY functioning alerts and lets you see ALL your mail in the same place. If I wanted to have two mail apps and two sets of UI habits, one for my GMail and one for everyting else, Id use Android
)Its good that theyre working on improving it though, I guess.
That's pretty much it. I don't use labels and I also like my mail interface for all my accounts to operate the same, look the same, and be consolidated into a single location.
I would like some "Outlook" like features for tagging/flags/etc., but I guess the native app will mature with time (it's still my favorite mobile email client).
Really?? Please say you were being sarcastic. Does it also bother you that the phone's stock icons are yellow, blue, green, orange...?
Anyways...notifications, other than sound, are not working for me. Not in lock screen, notification center, and the notification that "flips" at the top of the screen when phone is on. I did set them all as ON in the Gmail notification settings.
This is probably made in India like windows is so that's what you get. Crap.
Companies like Microsoft and Google don't want to pay the big bucks for real programmers even though they can afford it. That's why IT stinks and we get paid peanuts these days, lets just outsource it all to India, Philippines, etc...
-Mike
The "app" has a panes for labels, ability to search, native looking "compose", dropdowns, buttons, pinch to zoom, app icon, badge showing number of unread emails...
With numerous people saying this is just the webpage in app form, can someone enlighten me on what else would be expected in a "true app"? Genuine question, since I'm not sure what else would be expected from an app that simply handles emails.
One could argue that the Facebook and Twitter apps do not give us any additional functionality than their respective mobile sites.
With numerous people saying this is just the webpage in app form, can someone enlighten me on what else would be expected in a "true app"? Genuine question, since I'm not sure what else would be expected from an app that simply handles emails.
One could argue that the Facebook and Twitter apps do not give us any additional functionality than their respective mobile sites.
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I have a severe form of OCD. You'd be surprised, but out of all icons (which are mostly blue, green, orange, etc.), Gmail's black icon stuck out like a sore thumb.
If you don't suffer from any kinda OCD, you'll never understand me.
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Push + correct delete, simultaneously
ActiveSync / Exchange doesn't properly delete your emails with Gmail. It moves them to the All Mail folder. And if you do a bulk delete without reading them, they stay as "unread" in your All Mail folder. Very annoying.
Indeed. And it's a pain to poke through the All Mail folder figuring out what you had wanted to delete and what you want to keep.
I ended up creating a "Deleted" label in my Gmail account, and using the native iPhone app I just move messages that I want to delete there. That way they are at least segregated and I can delete them easily from my PC at a later point. Not ideal but it's a workaround.
Not quite sure why you would want to delete any emails!
I've had a gmail account for 6 years now with heavy enough usage and I've only used about 50% of the 7.6GB limit (which is constantly increasing).
You never know when you might want to look at an email again in the future.
You're welcome to keep your facebook notifications, lastminute.com e-savers, and MacRumors reply messages if you want, I guess.
In my usage, I have no need for those messages. I'm at 75% of my quota, with aggressive deletion of mail I have no use for.
At some point, I too might have to start deleting some of these kinds of messages that don't need to be kept. My GMail is filling up very slightly faster than they add more space, so that over several years I've crept from about 10% of capacity to about 20%. But, it will take years, and I can filter/delete them later, so for now I leave them alone.
On the topic of this app... I downloaded it at work (via iTunes), but I didn't have access to try it till I got home. I tried it a couple of times. I deleted it. Not too impressed. The only time I used the GMail website on my phone was because it produces better search results on old mail than Mail.app does. I don't think this is any better for that purpose, so I'll just leave well enough alone.
I don't really want 6 years of daily digests from the Yahoo Little League Umpires discussion group, or an email on May 12, 2007 from my wife asking me to pick a couple of things from the store on my way home, or an email from 2008 letting me know that my son's baseball game is rained out. I'm pretty confident that I'm never going to want to read any of those again.
In GMail via the web if you click on the trash can icon it actually deletes the message, it doesn't stick it in your "All Mail" folder/label. That doesn't seem like an unreasonable request for the mail app on the iPhone.
Trash can != "Archive" in my mind anyway.
I don't think "delete" was meant as "delete permanently to save space". The delete function should be expected to just move emails to the Trash, or equivelant for other email accounts that don't call it "Trash".
Integrating Gmail with the stock Mail app (even using the Exchange workaround), deleting an email in the app doesn't move it to the Trash folder. Instead, it gets archived and makes it relatively difficult to find again.
The delete / archive setting is switchable* in the standard IMAP version of Gmail on the iOS Mail.app. It's only in the Exchange/ActiveSync version that you can't set it to properly delete. Hence the choice: Push (via Exchange) OR proper delete (via IMAP), but not both.
*Settings->Mail,Contacts,Calendar->(account name)->Archive Messages
Set this to off, and messages will be deleted, not moved to All Mail. As stated above, this isn't available in the Exchange implementation.
so what is favored...the iphone mail app or gmail? i haven't download the gmail app, i just use the mobile site
Yes you can.
Open mail app and go to Mailboxes, then scroll down to accounts. Tap on Gmail(under Accounts, not Indoxes) and you'll see all the folders. If you delete anything in the all folders account it will end up in the trash folder. I have verified this by deleting on my iphone and refreshing gmail on my laptop browser. Also you can delete the trash folder from the iphone too which gets rid of the email for good.
FYI .... If you go to Gmail under the mail settings menu, you can also select which folders to push. And if your Jailbroken, you should install "All Mail" which allows to select all to delete. Good if you have hundreds of mail.
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