I have always been interested in the Important label since I first saw it in Gmail. I found the concept new, was fascinated with how Gmail could detect and mark emails as important for me and was eager to see how accurate such detection could be. Over the years, I have managed to acquire some knowledge related to Gmail's Important label and a blog article seems like the perfect place to put all my learnings together including answering some of the FAQs associated with it, such as Where can I find the settings for the Gmail Important label? What do the options mean? What are the reasons for which emails can be marked as important? How can I turn this feature off or how to actually get Gmail to stop marking my emails as important? Gmail tends to rely on their algorithms for (most if not all of) their message detections and alerts related to it and the marking of messages as important is no exception. The "Important" label can be seen in the Gmail left pan
I'm a Diamond Product Expert for Gmail and Google Accounts and this blog includes articles in English, Bengali and at times Hindi on new Gmail and Google Accounts feature launches or changes, Workarounds or explanations on issues affecting the users in the Gmail and Accounts Help Communities and documenting instructions I do not find in the Help Center articles.