GOOGLE is shutting down a pair of Gmail features this month – and it might mean you miss important emails.
The major closure – which is permanent – has been confirmed on Google‘s support pages.
Google said that the two features being canned are “Gmailify” and “Check mail from other accounts”.
These are both linked to features that work with your other non-Gmail accounts.
The good news is that you’re not at risk of actually losing any emails.
But if you didn’t know about the closures, you might miss emails that would’ve otherwise appeared in your Gmail inbox.
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“Check mail from other accounts” is a Gmail feature that pulls through emails from third-party email accounts into your Gmail.
Specifically, if your Gmail was using POP (Post Office Protocol, an old email standard) to fetch these emails, the fetching will no longer work.
“Gmailify” is a feature that gives special Gmail-style features to your third-party email account, and was once described by Google as “the best of Gmail, without an @gmail address”.
So that might include organising your inbox with categories or protecting you from spam.
It also included improved email notifications on mobile devices, and faster search.
The good news is that you can still read and send emails from other accounts in Gmail via the Android, iPhone or iPad app.
That’s because they use a type of connection called IMAP rather than POP.
“For third-party accounts like Yahoo! and Outlook, you can add them to the Gmail mobile app on Android, iPhone and iPad,” Google said.
If you’ve already imported emails into your Gmail, they won’t disappear.
Google confirmed: “All messages synced before the deprecation will stay in Gmail.”
You can still access Gmail from third-party apps using POP or IMAP too.
And it’s still possible to import emails and contacts from third-party accounts into Gmail using the web.
However, it’s not a continuous syncing like before – you’d have to do it as a one-off import.
Google hasn’t confirmed an exact date for the closure.
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But it warned that the features would begin shutting down “starting in January 2026”.
So if you were reading emails from other accounts in Gmail, make sure to check those accounts directly from now on – or use the mobile app.
