As promised, Google
today launched the latest version of Gmail for iPhone. Just like the new
Android version, which rolled out yesterday, the iOS version now offers support
for Google’s new auto-categorized emails for updates, promotions, newsletters
and messages from your social networks.
If this new feature has already been enabled for your Gmail
account, you will now be able to see a summary of these updates in your inbox
and you can access the different categories from the app’s slide-out sidebar
menu. The app adheres to the categorization settings you set on your desktop,
so if you activate or deactivate a category there, it’ll also disappear on
Gmail’s mobile apps.
As Alex Gawley, Google’s product manager for Gmail, told me
when the company first announced this feature, Google is using slightly
different approach to how it displays these notifications on Android and iOS.
The implementation, he told me, should feel native on both operating systems.
On Android, the notifications show up in the stream with their respective
labels, but on iOS, the message in the inbox just says “New categorized email”
with a brief summary underneath it.
Also New: Improved Notifications, Open Links With Chrome,
Maps And YouTube
With this update, Google is also introducing an improved
notification system. You can now choose if you just want to get notified of
messages that go into your primary inbox. This means you won’t get
notifications for all of the social notifications, updates, promotions, etc.
that Gmail now automatically moves to the other categories. If you get a lot of
those kinds of messages, that’ll definitely cut down on the noise. Of course, if
you want to see those notifications for all messages, you can do that, too – or
you can just turn off all notifications.
This feature, it seems, will only work for users who have
also enabled the new inbox.
Also new in this version is the ability to set Gmail to open
links with its own Chrome, Maps and YouTube apps if available, as well as the
ability to swipe left and right to move from one message to the next.
Article Credit: http://techcrunch.com
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