The email app used by over 3 billion people is turning on new artificial intelligence features by default. Here's how to turn them off.

If you mainly use Gmail on a PC, the only solution Google recommends is setting up automatic email forwarding to continue receiving messages from third-party accounts in your Gmail inbox once POP support ends. Services like Outlook and Yahoo! Mail support this.

GOOGLE is shutting down a pair of Gmail features this month – and it might mean you miss important emails. The major closure – which is permanent – has been confirmed on Google’s support

There is a support note, if you can find it. Here’s the link. “Starting January 2026,” Google tells users of the world’s most popular email platform, "Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts through POP. The option to ‘Check mail from other accounts’ will no longer be available in Gmail on your computer."

Gmail can be a much smarter tool if you enable its new AI features: Suggested Replies, Help Me Write, Proofread, AI Overviews, and AI Inbox are here.

Gmail is rolling out natural language queries with AI Overviews and the new Proofread feature for premium users to simplify your life.

If you're like me, you probably rely on Gmail for all your emailing tasks. Sure, there are plenty of email services out there — some quite private and secure like Proton Mail — but for most of us, especially us Android users, Gmail is the account we ...

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