The 5 keys to using Gmail that you should know

A large number of Android users use Gmail to manage their mail. And all Gmail users should know these 5 keys that we offer you below. 5 functions that, a priori, may have been overlooked by the average user of this email service, but that everyone should know perfectly well. What should we know about Gmail to get the most out of the Android app?

Set what the default action is

When we receive an email on our phone, as usual, a notification appears on our curtain.Once we lower the curtain, we can see a part of the mail, as well as apply some actions to it. By default, we can reply to the mail or archive it. But what if we want to delete the mail directly from the notification bar?

• We open our Gmail application. If you do not have it installed, go to the Android Play Store application store.
• Click on the hamburger menu with three stripes that we can locate in the upper left part of the application.
• We lower the screen all the way down and click on 'Settings'. Then, in the option 'General settings'.
• Once we are in the settings screen, we look at the first option of all: 'Gmail default action'.
• We can choose between two actions: the default one, 'Archive' or the one we've been looking for, 'Delete'. If you choose this second, from now on, you can delete any file from the notification bar.

Default response action

Which do you prefer, reply only to the main sender of the email or, instead, reply to all those who are included in it ? This function can be changed in the application settings. Once on the screen, look for the option 'Default response action'. In the pop-up window you can choose the response mode for all your emails.

Confirmation of mailing

An option that will come in handy for all those who sometimes respond too impulsively to emails.Or to those who send emails at ungodly hours of the morning For Gmail to ask you, before hitting send permanently, if you want to send the email, you must do the following following.

• Access the general settings of the Gmail application on your Android phone.
• Then, scroll all the way down and look at the section 'Action Confirmation'.
• You can choose between three actions, 'Before deleting', 'Before archiving' and 'Before sending'. The one that interests us, of course, is the third.

From now on, every time you press 'Send', the app itself will prompt you and ask you if you really want to send that . A second chance to redeem your shares.

Define a signature for emails

Do you want to apply a predefined signature to all emails you send from now on? If you have tired of writing 'Sincerely, José Gómez' in all your letters, here you can write an appropriate phrase to close them.

• First, enter the Gmail menu. Click on the three-line hamburger menu and then 'Settings'.
• Now, let's click on the email account in which we want to define the signature.
• In the section 'Signature' we will create the text that appears in all the emails we send, as a signature, of course.

Download Attachments

A very efficient way to have complete emails when we connect to WiFi. If you want the app to automatically download attachments when you are on WiFi, you need to do the following.

• Enter the three lines menu of Gmail.
• Once inside, go to 'Settings' and then locate the email account to which you want to apply these settings.
• Scroll all the way down and make sure that 'Automatically download attachments from emails over WiFi' is turned on.