Google is expanding its Meet hardware ecosystem, too. Other tweaks include options to specify whether you're in-office or virtual on a given day (important for planning meetings) and a Companion mode for Meet that lets you use a conference room's audiovisual hardware. Enterprise users should see these changes starting today, but everyday Gmail owners will see updates later on. You can accordingly expect easier navigation between email, chats, spaces and Meet, not to mention improved admin and security tools to help manage communications.
You'll now see Google's promised " spaces," a renamed and expanded version of Rooms chat channels with full threaded messages and the option of making spaces visible in search. There may be some lesser-known email apps with this feature, but we haven’t found any well-known ones we can recommend.The Workspace changes also include a broader redesign of Gmail that makes it a hub for other activities. Unfortunately, no popular mobile mail apps-including Microsoft Outlook, Apple Mail on iPhone, and Google’s own Gmail app-have this option built in. In Apple Mail, go to Mail > Preferences > Viewing, and changing “Show most recent message at the top.”
We’ve shown you how to access a Gmail account through both Microsoft Outlook, and Apple Mail before, so follow those instructions to set yourself up. In Outlook, you can ensure new emails are on top by ordering emails by the date received. Both Outlook and Apple Mail will show conversation views with the newest at the top, so if you access your Gmail through one of these clients, you can get that elusive functionality.
If you want conversation view on and you can’t install an extension or edit the CSS, your final option is to stop using the Gmail interface and start using a different mail client instead. Option Three: Use a Desktop Client like Outlook or Apple Mail You can use this CSS because the developer in question, “Tomasz,” has kindly licensed his extension using an MIT license that allows people to use its components for free. If you’re the kind of person who prefers to edit their own CSS where possible, you can use the CSS that the Gmail Reverse Conversation extension uses. This extension works by modifying Gmail’s cascading style sheets (CSS) code. However, this will only work in web browsers where you’ve installed the extension. As a bonus, the Reply and Forward options are also now at the top.
Before you install it, threaded messages will display the newest message at the bottom as standard.Īfter you’ve installed the extension, the newest message appears at the top. We like this extension because it works, but also because it has a publicly readable repository on Github where you can examine the source code of the browser extension. Many people recommend Gmail Reverse Conversation, which is available for both Chrome and Firefox. If you don’t want to turn off conversation view, you can install a browser extension that will modify the appearance of Gmail in your browser, showing new emails at the top. But, if you don’t like seeing every new email as its own message, there are other things you can try.
If you’re comfortable with the result, then your problem is solved. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and then click “Save Changes.”
On the General tab that opens, scroll down to the Conversation View option and then select “Conversation View Off.”