Under the shift, which Google said would eventually be rolled out to all users, old addresses would remain active. Messages and services would not be lost.

Google is set to purge inactive Gmail accounts starting on Dec. 1, but there's an easy way to protect your photos, Google docs and any other data you may want to keep. The company initially announced in May that it would start to delete inactive accounts ...

The world’s largest email platform may be using AI to access and exploit your private data, according to a class action lawsuit.

The update also expands Google’s “Help Me Write” tool, which has previously been a premium feature in Gmail but is now being made available to all users. It also gains enhanced tone-matching functionality, Google said, which means it’s capable of mimicking the user’s writing style to make its suggested emails more realistic.

Gmail is phasing out syncing email from third-party email accounts via POP. Users can shift to IMAP, but it's not quite the same.

If your Gmail account is warning you that storage is full, or worse, rejecting new messages, you’re running into a common problem.