The customisation options haven’t changed too much. Remember you can drag emails between tabs if Google gets the sorting wrong. Select Customise next to the Default option and you’re able to pick which tabs get shown on screen: Primary, Social, Promotions, Updates and Forums. The final layout choice is under the Inbox type heading when you click the cog to open the quick settings menu. The themes look a bit neater on the new interface than they did on the old one, especially if you’re choosing an image as a background rather than a solid colour - the image shows through very faintly behind your emails but not your chat conversations. You’re able to select from the thumbnails shown on screen, or the View all link will lead you to an ever wider selection. Themes are still available too, from the same menu.

(Screenshot: Google Meet)Ĭlick the cog icon up in the top right corner and you’ve still got the same three layout options to choose between: Default (where attachments and document links appear as separate icons), Comfortable (attachments are hidden but there’s still a fair bit of white space), and Compact (where there’s not much white space at all). Other parts of the interface - like the Meet pane - are a bit more sparse. It’s not clear how long the old layout is going to stick around as an alternative, because we’re assuming that eventually the previous interface will be gone for good. If you haven’t switched over to the updated interface already, you might well see a message on this menu asking if you’d like to do so - if not, be patient, because you’ll probably get the invite soon.īy the way, when you do adopt the new design on the web, the same menu will show a Go back to the original Gmail view option if you find all the changes just a bit too much.

To see if the new look is available to you, open Gmail on the web and click on the cog icon in the top right corner. It’s intended, Google says, to better integrate Gmail with the Chat and Meet components that you may or may not make much use of - and it means you’ve now got a few new options when it comes to getting Gmail looking the way you want. Gmail is getting a new look on the web, which should be heading your way soon (if it hasn’t arrived already).

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