December 3, 2024, 9:01 am | Read time: 2 minutes
A new function has been added to the Gmail email service. This is particularly useful if a message is to be sent to several recipients.
Gmail is one of the most used email services worldwide. According to Statista, its market share amounted to just under 31% in October. This puts the client in second place behind Apple. This popularity is certainly also due to the connection to Android. And there is now a new feature for precisely this target group: Gmail is getting a drag-and-drop function for contacts. TECHBOOK explains how this works and why it is so practical.
Practical drag-and-drop function for Gmail is coming
Anyone who regularly sends emails is probably familiar with the problem. You want to send a message to several people, but then you make a mistake with the direct recipients, Cc and Bcc. Until now, you had to delete the corresponding recipient in Gmail and then add them again. This is now set to change with an update.
As reported by the Google Workspace Updates portal, among others, the mail service is getting a new function. In the future, Gmail customers will be able to move their contacts simply by dragging and dropping. Until now, this feature was reserved for desktop Gmail users. Now, it is also coming to mobile Android devices.
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The small practical change primarily saves time but is primarily of interest to people who use Gmail for business. The fact that the feature is now also available for mobile users also shows how important this platform is overall. This is also supported by the fact that Google wants to work on the general availability of Gmail, especially for tablets. As reported by Android Authority and others, Google is working on a multi-year project to integrate Chrome OS into Android fully.
Overall, it is also a good sign that Google is upgrading here. In addition to this innovation, the provider has also recently launched several other features. These include a simplified option to unsubscribe from newsletters. The Gmail search filter has also been adapted. It has also been reported that Google is working on a new function to prevent motion sickness. A corresponding feature has been implemented in iOS with iOS 18.