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Gmail Unveils Unsubscribe Button for Android: Managing Emails Made Easier

Gmail is all set to enhance the user experience for Android users with the introduction of its much-awaited Unsubscribe button. Already popular among iOS and web users, this feature provides a streamlined way to manage email subscriptions.

Overview of Gmail's Unsubscribe Button

The unsubscribe button in Gmail allows users to easily opt out of email newsletters and promotional emails. This addition is a part of Google’s ongoing efforts to enhance user experience and email management efficiency.

Benefits of the Unsubscribe Button for Android Users

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The Unsubscribe button in Gmail for Android streamlines email management by allowing users to quickly opt out of unwanted subscriptions. This feature reduces inbox clutter, saves time, and enhances overall productivity, making it easier for Android users to maintain a clean and organized email experience.

How the Unsubscribe Button Works

When a promotional email arrives, Gmail detects it and provides an unsubscribe option along with the sender’s details. With a simple click, users can remove themselves from mailing lists without going through multiple steps.

Impact on Email Management and Productivity

This feature significantly impacts how users manage their emails. By eliminating unnecessary emails, it allows users to focus on important communications, thereby increasing productivity.

Comparison with the iOS Gmail App

The introduction of the Unsubscribe button on Android reduces feature differences between the Android and iOS Gmail apps, providing a consistent experience across all platforms.

Potential Impact on Email Marketing

The unsubscribe button can create challenges for email marketers. Businesses will need to focus more on creating engaging content to reduce the chances of users dropping out.

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Tips for Efficient Email Management

In addition to the unsubscribe button, users can employ other strategies for efficient email management, such as using labels and filters and setting up priority inboxes in Gmail.

Conclusion

The introduction of the unsubscribe button on Gmail for Android marks a significant enhancement in email management. This empowers users to take control of their inbox, ensuring a more organized and productive email experience.

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Google Celebrates Gmail’s 15th Birthday; Adds New Features to it

Gmail has turned 15 today, and Google has added a few new useful features to it, to celebrate the 15th birthday of its most successful product. Google launched Gmail on 1 April 2004 in order to experiment with the email process, and after 15 years, Gmail is the most used email service across the world. In fact, despite being a Google product, it is also really popular among iPhone and iPad users.

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Although Yahoo and Hotmail were leading the email business over a decade ago, Gmail slowly got into the race and finally became the number one email service. Gmail has a global user-base of over a billion people and is free to use. However, it also has got a paid enterprises suite.

In recent years, Gmail saw remarkable changes. Paul Buchheit started developing Gmail as the ‘Caribou’ project, and after working for years on it, Google launched Gmail in 2004. It was faster and offered an initial storage capacity of one gigabyte, per user. Hence, within no time Gmail took off to the success ride. Currently, Gmail offers 15 GB of free storage to its users, and the storage can be extended further as a paid service.

Google
was the first to start the reply to all, i.e. group conversation,
chat, priority inbox and calendar. Being the first successful
product, Gmail also encouraged Google to experiment with other
fields, and Google launched products like Google map, Google Drive,
and even Android OS.

With
Gmail, Google moved ahead from the searches and even launched its own
browser, i.e., Google Chrome.

As
a part of birthday celebrations, Google has added new features to
Gmail, including improved Smart Compose (with four added languages
Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese) and email schedule features.
The earlier version of Smart Compose for Android was only available
on Pixel 3, but now every Android user will be able to access this
feature.

In January this year, Google had launched a new interface for Gmail mobile app that allowed users to see the attachments without opening the email. According to Google, it is also testing new features including pinned messages, reminders and category bundles to be added to Gmail for Android. Noticeably, the company has just shut down Inbox and tomorrow Google+ will also stop functioning, as now Google wants to solely focus on the improvement of Gmail.

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Gmail Will Now Block 100 Million More Spam Messages Every Day Using TensorFlow

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Going to the spam folder and deleting the Spam emails in the Gmail inbox is a regular thing for everyone, and it sometimes is quite annoying when you have to check whether any important mail isn’t there in the spam folder and you can’t simply delete all the emails directly.

Well, Google already has made various AI programs that according to Google are blocking 99.9 per cent spam. But even then we see many Spam emails in our inboxes.

Last week, Google rolled out the Material Theme for Gmail on Android, featuring company’s latest styling and a few other features. Google has just announced that the new Material Theme is also helping Google’s machine learning models TensorFlow, to block 100 million more spam messages, which will be targeting the remainder 0.1 per cent of the spam.

Gmail, at present, is serving over 1 billion-plus user and blocking 100 million spam messages every day may not help much, but it does not seem bad either. As even the company has built robust programs to block those spam messages, few of them slips through the Gmail’s protection.

From many years, the company has been using the rule-based algorithm to control the spam. The rule-based algorithms are set to follow some specifications in order to block the spam messages, leaving loopholes for the spam. Whereas the new machine learning framework will help it identify the spam based on new patterns. The ML framework uses the algorithms that identifies patterns in large datasets and offer personalized spam protections to account for users.

TensorFlow is an open-source machine learning framework, which was developed by Google in 2015. According to Google, integrating TensorFlow into Gmail will also allow it to better personalize spam filters, and besides spam, the framework may also help in preventing phishing, and malware from reaching inboxes.