If you open a message in your Gmail email on your mobile phone and notice something different when you go to reply, it’s quite possible that you already have that message. chat repliesIt has a style similar to that of any messaging app.

Until now, viewing a Gmail email only served this purpose: viewing emails. If you wanted to respond you had to press the button. Answer And compose the message in a new windowsomething that no longer happens with the new style of response reaching users.

Reply to emails as if it were WhatsApp

In November of last year, we learned that Google was working on a new design for Gmail. new style for message repliesis integrated directly into the message view itself. This renewal has now started to be activated for users.

We will meet with this new design a rod that will respond message at the end of email preview instead of buttons Answer, Reply to everyone And Send againas usual.

Old interface for creating replies (left) and new interface for reply bar (right)

If you use Gmail on the web, the system is quite similar, the only difference is that buttons appear instead of a bar in the web version, but they have the same advantage. Ability to read the original message while writing the replyThis was something that was only possible to a certain extent before; the quoted text could not always be read correctly.

So where are the options? forward or reply to everyone? These still exist, but they are all framed within the new response box; like a slider where you can change whether you’re typing a reply, reply to everyone, or forward.

By the way, if you prefer to have a full screen to type your message like before, you can still have that. HE expand buttonIt makes the experience similar to the previous one by enlarging the box to the right of the text box.

via | Android Police

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