How to update Gmail
At work, all your colleagues use the Gmail application to manage email on smartphones and tablets and, recently, they told you about a new feature introduced following a new update. On your device, however, this feature does not seem to be present and you are therefore wondering how to update Gmail in order to take advantage of it.
How do you say? This is exactly how things are and, since you are not very tech-savvy, are you afraid of not succeeding? Don’t worry: I’m here ready to help you. In fact, with this tutorial you are about to read, I will explain in detail how to update the Google email app on Android and iOS. Furthermore, if you need to force the receipt of new emails from the Gmail server, I will show you how to use the appropriate update feature that is available on your computer in the famous Webmail service.
That said, if you are eager to learn more, I recommend that you pick up your smartphone or tablet and sit comfortably. Take a few minutes of free time and carefully follow the instructions I am about to give you in the next lines. Are you ready to get started? Yup? Very well! I wish you a good read.
Index
- Update Gmail on Android
- Enable automatic updating
- Update Gmail on iOS
- Enable automatic updating
- Update Gmail on computer
- How to update Gmail contacts
- How to update your Gmail account
Update Gmail on Android
To update the Gmail application on Android you have to intervene through the Play Store, which is the default virtual store of Google devices. To do this, press the Play Store icon, the symbol of a colored flag, which is located on the home screen of your Android smartphone or tablet.
Once this is done, tap on the ☰ icon located in the upper left corner and press on the item My apps and games. Now refer to the Updates section: if on this screen there is the Gmail app icon and the Update button, tap it to download the update of the email app. If, on the other hand, instead of the Update button there is the Open button, it means that the update has already been downloaded and therefore it is not necessary to intervene.
If there is no Gmail application on this screen, it means that your device already has the latest version available and therefore, for the moment, no update is necessary.
Enable automatic updating
If you want to make sure that the applications downloaded on Android update automatically, press the ☰ icon located in the upper left corner of the Play Store, then tap the Settings item and press the word Automatic app update.
In the next menu that is shown to you, activate the Only via Wi-Fi item if you want to make the apps update automatically when you are connected to the Wi-Fi network. Pressing, instead, on the item On any network, you will make sure that the automatic updating of the app also takes place via packet data.
The wording for automatic app update may differ slightly from device to device. Then choose the one that’s right for you and make sure there is no checkmark on the item Do not automatically update apps, otherwise this feature will not be active.
Update Gmail on iOS
To update the Gmail app on iOS you must act through the App Store, which is the default virtual store of iPhone and iPad. To do this, presses on its icon located on the home screen (it is the symbol of a stylized white “A” on a blue background), then, once its main screen is displayed, press the Updates item which is located in the menu bar at the bottom.
In case there is an update available for the Gmail app, you will be able to see its icon on this screen: then press the Update button to start the download. If the Update button is not present and there is an Open button instead, it means that the application has already been updated recently.
If, on the other hand, there is no Gmail app icon in the Updates screen, it means that for the moment an update is not available for the latter and, therefore, the latest distributed version is already installed on your device. .
Enable automatic updating
If you wish, you can activate the automatic update of the apps downloaded on your iPhone or iPad, so that it is no longer necessary to intervene with the manual update procedure that I indicated in the previous chapter.
To do this, you need to act through the iOS settings. Crushing and then on the app icon settings (the symbol of gear ) on the home screen of your device, simply tap on the item the iTunes Store and App Store, and on the next screen, move the lever from OFF to ON in correspondence of the wording Updates.
Furthermore, if you want to make sure that the automatic updating of the apps also takes place via cellular data, as well as in Wi-Fi, move the lever from OFF to ON in correspondence with the item Use cellular data.
In this way, as soon as an Internet connection is available via Wi-Fi or via packet data, your device will automatically download the update for the apps that need it.
Update Gmail on computer
Gmail, the Webmail service offered by Google is automatically updated on your computer, if there is an improvement in its user interface or if new features are introduced. Therefore, if you are using this e-mail service on a Windows or macOS computer, you do not have to do anything to update it, as the news is introduced on the server-side.
That said, if your intent remains to update Gmail on your computer it could mean that you need to urgently receive an email message. in this case, you can use the Refresh button which is used to make the e-mail server “force” the control of new e-mails.
To do this, connect to the famous Google Webmail service with your account data ( email and password ) and, once its main screen is displayed, press the arrow symbol located in the menu bar at the top. Easier than that?
How to update Gmail contacts
The contacts on your device are synchronized with your Gmail account, as long as you have correctly activated this option. Not sure you did it right? Don’t worry, we’ll fix it right away.
On Android, go to the Settings> Account menu, tap on the item that refers to the name of your Google account and make sure that the lever you find in the Contacts item is set to ON, in order to activate the synchronization for the latter.
On iOS, however, you must have added a Google account to the Settings menu > Passwords and accounts> Add Account (on iOS 14 and later you must go to Settings> Mail or Settings> Contacts ), then tap on it and make sure it is set to ON the lever corresponding to the wording Contacts.
If you have any problems or doubts about it, please refer to my tutorial on how to synchronize your address book with Gmail.
How to update your Gmail account
Do you need to update your Gmail account details, such as personal information? No problem, I’ll explain immediately how to do it in the following lines.
To update your Gmail account you need to act as a computer. Then connect to the Webmail service and click on your profile picture located in the upper right corner. In the menu that appears, then click on Google Account, in order to be redirected to the page relating to all the changes you can make for your account.
Through the section Access and security, you can then, for example, change your password, by pressing on Personal data and privacy manage the information stored on your account, while by clicking on Account preferences you can change the settings relating to security and access to your account. .