Gmail for Android is receiving a Material 3 Expressive redesign, including a new search app bar and a widely rolling out 'Mark as read' feature in notifications, enhancing user experience with updated UI elements and functionality.
Google is gradually rolling out a new 'Mark as read' button in Gmail notifications for Android, allowing users to quickly mark emails as read directly from the notification without opening the app, enhancing email management convenience.
Google Messages is introducing a new quality-of-life feature that allows users to mark conversations as read or unread by swiping in the main conversation list. This feature is available in the beta version of the app and is more convenient than the previous method of long-pressing a conversation and opening an overflow menu. The new swipe action joins "Mark as read" in the Android notification sheet and can be set to the same action in both swipe directions.