Gmail App Brings The Block Option to Android

Getting unnecessary emails is very frustrating. Not only does it add up to your email clutter, it also wastes minutes of your life just checking on them. This is why Google keeps on updating Gmail for Android to make sure that unsubscribing from emails and blocking senders are as easy as possible. Google brings in Android users the Block and Unsubscribe function to the Gmail app.

Newsletters from websites you actually subscribe to can later on become unneeded. Although newsletters may also offer an unsubscribe link within their emails, it isn't impossible that the option is not there. This is why a built in functionality of block and unsubscribe would always come in handy within email apps such as Gmail. This isn't Gmail's first attempt to bring us the unsubscribe option, but given the evolution of smartphones, each update is always more useful than the previous ones.

The update for the Gmail app allows you to block people you consider disruptive, so long as they keep on using the same email address. To do this, you just have to tap that three-dots thing within the email that's bugging you, it will then open the options menu. Then you can just choose the Block or Unscubscribe option. The other email actions can also be found in there, like the Move or Mark.

These changes allows Gmail to automatically send emails to the Junk Folder. You can always change your mind in the future and undo all your previous changes. If unsubscribing isn't your best option as of the moment, don't forget the classic 'folder' functionality of emails so you can still access some emails that you may need from time to time. Just create a filter folder that will organize emails from specific senders so they don't go straight to your inbox but to your assigned folder. This will remove the mess of looking at your inbox full of mixed emails from all sorts of categories.

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