Gmail for iOS adding inbox widget as Google Meet gets PiP

Google is rolling out a trio of productiveness updates to its iPhone and iPad productiveness apps. Notably, Gmail will get a homescreen widget, whereas iOS Image-in-Image is now obtainable for Google Meet.

Replace 1/11/22: Model 6.0.211226 of Gmail from yesterday rolls out the brand new “Electronic mail updates” widget. It joins the prevailing “Fast e-mail actions” homescreen merchandise.

Unique 11/10/21: Gmail is getting one other widget on iOS after the unique was quietly eliminated someday previously 12 months. The screenshot Google shared right this moment reveals your inbox with three latest emails that word the sender and topic.

What account they originate from is highlighted within the top-left nook by your profile image, whereas there’s a compose FAB on the left. Performance-wise, it’s similar to the Android model, which is due for a Materials You overhaul. The iOS widget shall be obtainable in Gmail over the “subsequent few weeks.”

In the meantime, Google just lately added Image-in-Image help to Meet. It’s a reasonably normal implementation with the flexibility to resize the window. A PiP can be coming to the built-in video calling expertise in cell Gmail over the “subsequent few weeks.”

For instance, you would possibly wish to ahead an e-mail, share a doc or simply look one thing up when you’re chatting. Merely navigate out of the Google Meet app, and your assembly shall be minimized in a window that you could transfer round your Residence Display.

The final upcoming replace will see Google Sheets add help for shortcuts — maintain down the command key to see an inventory of accessible ones:

Shortcuts make it simpler to finish widespread and superior duties on Google Sheets utilizing a small keyboard — like deciding on a complete row or discovering and changing sure values.