Google is giving its mail service yet another design revamp through a new material theme design for mobile. If you have been vigilant, you should have noticed how Gmail on desktop was retouched into something much newer. This is coming to mobile too.
According to an announcement made by the company, Google says that the new design will help you quickly view attachments such as photos without having to open or scroll through the conversation.
It will also be easier for you to switch between personal and work accounts, granting you access to all your emails much faster.
In the redesign, you won’t see the red banner on the top anymore. Instead you are going to get a cleaner, all white surface from top to bottom. You are also going to see a search bar, and a hamburger menu on the left side to let you access any other other tabs, and the user profile option on the right side.
The profile option will allow you access to your profile, as well as let you add other gmail accounts and also managing or switching between these accounts upon tapping on the profile photo.
Like it is on the web, Gmail for mobile will as well have big red warnings to alert users of a potential phishing email, and this will be very visible in the midst of the all white background.
The redesign also offers options for different spacing of the emails in your inbox: default, comfortable, and compact.
The default view spaces the mails while leaving extra white space and little buttons that let you tap into attachments on emails directly. The comfortable view looks the most like the current iteration of the Gmail app, while compact view leaves close to no space and transforms the sender avatars into check boxes.
Google says the update is “part of a larger effort to make G Suite look and act like a family of products, designed in the Google Material Theme with ease-of-use in mind”.
The update will be available in the coming weeks, on Android and iOS, with more G Suite mobile apps to follow later this year.
