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Gmail's iPhone App Now Has 'Undo Send' and Faster Search (mashable.com)
Google has updated its Gmail app for iOS today, which includes a handful of much-welcomed features and improvements. There is now an "Undo Send" button for mobile, a fresh new look, and faster search. Mashable reports: To unsend an email, just tap the "Undo" button in the lower right corner after you've hit the paper plane send icon. But you have to do it fast. You only get five seconds to hit undo before the email sends. And unlike the desktop version, you can't set it to longer intervals up to 30 seconds. You'll also notice Gmail app's got a fresh new look that resembles the Android version, which makes use of Google's Material Design language. Google's also made search faster with autocorrect suggestions and added in swipe gestures for archiving and deleting. In addition, Google has updated its Calendar application for iOS, bringing an overhauled UI and support for Spotlight search.
We've come a long way since COPS was in production.
We usually skip the screaming, running, etc. and go straight to shooting them in the back now.
Nah, I don't typically begin to question myself for minutes on end...
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There's an extension to do this in Thunderbird since... forever I think?
And you can set what ever duration you want, not whatever Google thinks are sane defaults.
I mean, 5 seconds is kinda worthless. It doesn't even give you enough time to reread the email (again) or to scan the recipients list or to notice that you forgot to attach the file that you said you had attached (again).
So.. this is a story about the addition of a button. They added a button to an application. Hmm.. wow. Just... wow.
The Un-Read button is now universal. Hitting the un-read button will wipe the readers mind of all knowledge pertained in the E-Mail, even if it was common knowledge known before reading.
The Clintons are trying to band it after sending it to the FBI, Justice Department, IRS, and hundreds of others.
Some of the stupidest IT support conversations I've ever had have been with people who thought they could "undo" a mistakenly sent email because someone once sold them on an "Undo Send" option that was just a "Delay Send" option for X minutes. Try telling someone "No, you definitely sent that email" when they think, "No, if you'd let me use Outlook, I could summon that email back and it would disappear." I'm sure this idiotic "feature" will recur again and again as long as we have email and will inspire infinite fresh gems of magical thinking.
Not only did they add the "Undo Send" feature, they broke their links that now open in Safari rather than Chrome. They made settings even harder to get to, especially if you have a lot of labels, but added a "open in app" setting, which oddly is missing Chrome, though most other Google apps appear, and if you don't have one installed instead of a toggle it shows "Install" which takes you to the App store to let you install the app.
Upon first use I kept getting "Background send process failed" popups. They also changed the organization of tabs so that the Primary tab is the main tab always available, all other tabs must be backed out to the Primary tab before you can look at other tabs. So instead of going to "Updates" to see important updates, then switching to "Promotions" I have to now go to "Updates", then back out to "Primary", then switch to "Promotions". Thanks Google for making learned tasks more complicated and having to reteach my muscles how to switch tabs.
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." [Thomas Jefferson]
There is a desktop version of gmail? Cant find it.
New and improved: a big red bar taking up a bunch of space and a column of icons that tell me nothing. Actually, what I wanted was to read my mail. Appearance preferences please?
Since upgrading GMail late this afternoon on my iPhone and iPad, over a dozen old emails--I mean well over a year old--have been resent. None were in Drafts or elsewhere than the Sent Mail folder, and I can detect no pattern to it. Has anyone else seen this?
"Love is a familiar; Love is a devil: there is no evil angel but Love." --William Shakespeare ('Love's Labors Lost')
They added also a new notification sound different from the default one, but I am still missing the option to select a custom sound.
Nah, I don't typically begin to question myself for minutes on end...
I know it's more politically incorrect here to like Microsoft than to like Iran, but I've always liked the capability that any mail system based on Exchange Server and Outlook have, where you can go in, open a mail and attempt to recall a message. If the recipient hasn't read it or opened his mail, the recall is successful, otherwise, it ain't.
That sounds a lot smarter than a 5 second wait. Speaking of which, in any mail system, if you manage to disable your WiFi or unplug your Ethernet cable, you'd manage the same thing. But the Exchange approach above is the best, and unfortunately, has not been adapted by other mail systems like gmail, icloud or anything else.
again. us developers are told not to make our apps on IOS look the same as they do on Android and vice-versa.
google have been going back on their own design principals technically aswell - deprecating and replacing their UI components with counterparts that serve no better use, but require more boiler plate.
android is not a very reliable or consistent platform by any metric