Gmail muscle its reception box with a tab dedicated to shopping

Barely back to school, Google is already preparing the end of year celebrations with a overhaul of the organization of emails in Gmail. Messaging already has several features that facilitate monitoring of your online orders, such as the summary sheets that appear at the top of the messaging to inform you of the planned deliveries.

A new tab for purchase monitoring

Now it will be even easier to organize the purchase of your gifts. Gmail has a new Purchasing tab, which brings together the various messages confirming your orders, or informing you of deliveries. It is added to the existing tabs, namely main, promotions, social networks, notifications and forums.

Adding this new tab allows you to remove messages from the main tab, to simplify the reading. You will avoid that important emails are lost while you order your Christmas gifts. And now all messages concerning your purchases are grouped together, forming a sort of dashboard dedicated to shopping.

This does not change the summary sheets, which will continue to warn you of imminent deliveries when you open your reception box. Of course, as with the other tabs, if you don’t like this novelty you can deactivate it in the settings.

On the web version of Gmail, click on the toothed wheel at the top right then on See all parameters. In the tab Reception boxyou can check or uncheck the different categories. On mobile, open the main menu on the left, touch Parametersselect your account, then open Categories of the reception box.

Better visibility for special offers

In parallel, Google updates the promotions tab. This category can contain a large number of sites of sites that you rarely use, and the offers that really interest you can find themselves drowned in the mass. Google will now change the sorting order, to move from the current chronological order to sorting by relevance. Gmail will highlight the services with which you interact the most. In addition, messaging will display reminders for new offers or those that are about to expire.

These new features will be available for personal accounts on the web version, as well as in mobile applications on Android and iOS. Deployment will be done gradually in the coming weeks.

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