Google’s killing off the best Gmail feature you never knew about

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TL;DR

• Gmailify is shutting down this month after almost a decade.
• Third-party email accounts will lose Gmail-style spam filtering, categories, and advanced search functions.
• You’ll still be able to access other inboxes in the Gmail app, just without the full Gmail experience.

It’s the end of an era, at least it is for Google-feature stans. For nearly a decade, Google has offered a way to make non-Gmail inboxes feel a lot more like Gmail. That feature is called Gmailify, but it’s now on the way out.

According to an updated support page from Google, Gmailify will be discontinued this month. Once that happens, Gmail will no longer apply features like spam protection, inbox categories, advanced search, or enhanced notifications to third-party email accounts such as Yahoo or Outlook.




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