Blogs on Gmail and Google Accounts

When the old Google Contacts UI finally made way for the new Google Contacts preview version, it took with itself one of the most used feature: the ability to add multiple contacts at once under either My Contacts or any specific contact groups, now called Labels. In the intervening months, many hundreds of people have posted in the Gmail help community and also on Twitter about bringing back this feature, and, now (in February 2020), we finally see that feature being released and made available for the Gsuite and personal Gmail accounts. The sequence of steps are as follows: Visit the Google Contacts page at https://contacts.google.com/ Click on the "Create contact" button. It will expand to show two options, (a) Create a contact and (b) Create multiple contacts Click on the "Create multiple contacts" button. A pop-up window will appear with the relevant fields If you want to add the new contacts under a label, you need to click on the grey ...

Even though it has been more than a decade and a half since Google launched Gmail, users regularly post about receiving emails intended for someone else, addressed to a dot (or the dotless) variant of their username and wonder if the other person is receiving their emails in turn as well. So, it won't be unfair to say that the Gmail "dots" issue is still one of its most misunderstood features. This blog is my take on this issue. I have shared all relevant information that is known to me on this issue, through the three following sections, detailing what the issue is in reality, mentioning the common rebuttals, and describing self-tests that anyone can perform to dispel their doubts. The reality of the issue The common rebuttals The self-tests 1. The reality of the issue: what exactly happens? What happens is the simple act of someone (say Person A) giving out an email address that they incorrectly think is theirs, but in reality, belongs to someone else (say P...

One of the most persistent feature requests from the Gmail mobile app users is to be allowed the benefit of using the contact labels (previously called Groups) set up in the Google contacts manager to send out emails.  That's because the contact labels created in the Google Contacts manager at https://contacts.google.com/ can't be used in other places except for the Gmail standard web UI accessible via https://mail.google.com/ . It also meant that those contact labels or groups stayed out of bounds for users who would use the Gmail Android or iOS app.  The Google Contacts Android app seems to have been made things just a bit better for the Gmail Android mobile app users. To be able to use the Google Contact labels in the Gmail Android app, download and install the Google Contacts app from the Play Store. Once installed, it will display the Contacts for the Google address as well as the Contact labels.  To be able to see the Contact labels, tap on...