- You can easily change your gmail display by accessing the quick settings menu that appears next to your inbox when you click the gear icon.
- from the quick settings menu, you can instantly adjust various aspects of your inbox display.
- Setting options include how close together your emails are displayed, which emails appear at the top of your inbox, and whether you can still see your inbox while reading an email.
gmail, one of the most popular email applications in the world, offers a variety of customizations in its interface, from the theme and background design to the proximity of email conversations.
In a recent update, gmail implemented a quick settings tab, which shows an abbreviated list of display settings. this new tab appears automatically when you click the settings button in the upper left corner of the screen.
There is an option to go to the full settings menu, which allows for more nuanced display customizations, as well as other tweaks. the quick settings menu is a small mini-menu that allows you to make quick changes to your inbox display, without having to refresh the page.
You should also note that this quick setting only applies to the desktop version of gmail. the mobile version offers fewer customizations: the only one in the quick settings list that applies to the mobile app is conversation density.
here’s a full rundown of all the things you can do with gmail’s new quick settings menu.
how to change gmail display settings
density
The density of your gmail account refers to how close together your email conversations are in your mailboxes. the lowest density is the default and provides the most space between each email in your inbox. medium density, labeled “comfortable,” shows slightly less space between each email.
and the highest density, labeled “compact”, packs emails into your inbox without much space between them.
theme
Your theme is simply the background of your email interface. you can choose one of the photos they give you in the quick settings tab or click “view all” to see more options.
inbox type
This menu setting refers to how your inbox is organized. By default, Gmail inboxes show you the most recent emails first, but you can change it to show starred emails first, emails marked as important first, unread emails first, or in other ways.
If you’d like more details on all the different types of changes you can make to your inbox settings, hit the “customize” button below any of the options.
reading pane
A reading pane is a feature that allows you to read the body of an email without having to leave your view of your inbox. by default, gmail doesn’t have one, but you can easily add one in quick settings.
You can place your reading pane to the right of your inbox.
You can also choose to place your reading pane below your inbox.
email links
This is a feature that has been around for so long that many people may have forgotten that this is not how it was always done. if you uncheck the box next to email threads, emails from the same conversation will no longer be grouped together.
what this means is that if you’re having a conversation with someone via email, instead of receiving each reply as a new email, gmail chains them all up for you.
then if a thread is marked as read and is fifth from the top of your inbox, it will update to put the most recent reply at the top, move it to the first of your inbox, and mark it as unread again.
If you disable the thread, each reply in a thread will appear as a new email in your inbox.
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