Gmail is the email app of choice for almost everyone on an Android device, and not just because it comes with the OS. You can link all your email accounts to it, regardless of your email service, and it provides an excellent experience all around. To further establish itself as the only email app you need, you can now unsubscribe from a mailing list with a big button right at the top of an email.
Unsubscribing Is Now Easier Than Ever
It’s basically a universal experience to have mailing lists that bug you with emails way too often. They’re not spam — most of the time, you intentionally signed up for the service — but it gets to a point where you don’t need to repeatedly see a 15% off email for an app you last used in 2018.
This isn’t the first time Gmail has made unsubscribing more accessible, but it really can’t get easier than Google’s latest move. As reported by Android Police, when you open an email that comes from a mailing list of any kind, you’ll see an “Unsubscribe” button right at the top, beside the sender’s information.
Tapping this button will do one of two things: give you a prompt in Gmail to confirm that you want to unsubscribe, or give you a prompt that will take you to the appropriate website’s unsubscribe page. Either way, it gets the job done easier than before.
Can’t See The Big Unsubscribe Button On Your Android Yet?
As a lot of big mobile app updates go, you might notice that you can’t see the Unsubscribe button yet while others have already gotten it. Don’t worry about it — it’s a gradual rollout and it should hit your Android smartphone in not too long. Just make sure you’ve updated to the latest version of the app.
In the meantime, you don’t need to scroll all the way to the bottom of an email to find the tiny text to let you unsubscribe. Gmail already had a convenient way to unsubscribe before this new one: open an email, tap the three dots at the top of the screen, and click “Unsubscribe”. This is still available if you haven’t gotten the update.
You can also find the big Unsubscribe button by checking your web version of Gmail, though that one has been there for quite some time at this point.
Gmail Wants To Help Defeat Spam And Malicious Emails
Simpler accessibility to the unsubscribe option makes it a lot easier to defeat spammy mailing lists that don’t want you to forget them. But that’s not the only way that Google and Gmail are working to keep your experience smoother (and safer).
In 2023, Gmail took a page out of the books of most social media platforms and introduced verification badges for email senders. Now, if you check an email sent from Google or another large platform, you’ll see a blue tick confirming that the email came from an official source.
Phishing attempts will continue to be around for a long time and they tend to come in very believable shapes, but with this update, it’ll be a lot harder to fall for them. At the moment, this is only available on the web version of Gmail, but it should hopefully find its way to Android soon.
