Since doing almost anything online requires users to at least provide their email address, it can be hard to keep track of everything.
For those using Google's Gmail for registering, subscribing, purchasing or anything else, they will find their accounts are full of promotions they may not remember signing up for. Most of the time, when they want to clean those things, what they usually do is deleting them, or just ignoring them.
But that will never stop future incoming message.
Gmail acknowledges this, and introduces a feature to help users out. Google has released a way to make it easier to unsubscribe from promotional emails users haven’t checked on in at least a month.
The feature, which works with the web client and mobile app, consists of a new “Inbox Tip” card that appears at the top of your inbox in both the Android app and desktop site. The card asks if users want to unsubscribe from a particular sender’s emails.
Using the card, users have the options to either unsubscribe or ignore the tip card.
The feature is initially available to some Gmail users with a limited rollout. The other limitation is that the feature only works on emails that Google is able to identify as promotion contents with an option to unsubscribe.
Previously, Google announced a smart reply feature, which automatically generates email response.
"What this does is it takes an incoming email message and then, given the text of the email message, it tries to predict what are likely responses you might want to give," said Google’s Jeff Dean. "Now, 10 percent of mobile responses on email on the Inbox product are generated with this Smart Reply feature, so it’s saving people a lot of time."
Other than inbox monitoring and smart replies, Google is also providing more ways to save users time. For example, Google also made Gmail to automatically convert phone numbers and email addresses into automatic hyperlinks.