First came the Meeting tab as a spearhead for the lower Gmail button panel. Now, Chat and Rooms arrive that, although they are not activating users automatically, it would not be surprising if they did so in the future. If you don’t want the bottom button in Gmail, you can remove it .
If you’d rather keep the Gmail interface as it was a couple of years ago, with emails spanning all verticality, you’ll be glad to know that you can hide the Mail, Chat, Rooms, and Meeting tabs from the app settings. We tell you how.
How to remove tabs from Gmail
If you are one of those who thinks that what is already good is better not to touch it, you may not like Google’s effort to turn Gmail into an all-in-one productivity application instead of the email client that it always has been. The easiest way to do this is to configure Gmail so that it doesn’t have any tabs at the bottom .
If you do not use Google Chat , Google Meet or the rest of Google Workplace services, it is quite likely that you will hit the lower Gmail button. In the space it occupies you could see some more emails on the list. Luckily, it can be removed.
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The Gmail tab configuration is specific to the email account, so you must open the side panel, enter Settings and then touch the Gmail account in which you want to remove the tabs. If you use several, you will have to repeat the process in all of them.
Then it is time to change the options themselves, which are specifically two. First, go down to the General section and uncheck the Chat box . This option hides the Chat and Rooms tabs . Gmail restarts to apply the changes.
If you also want to get rid of the Meeting , you will have to repeat the previous steps to go back to the settings, but now unchecking the Show the Meeting tab to make video calls box , in the Meeting section . Gmail will restart again.
At this point, the lower Gmail button will have no reason to exist and will therefore disappear completely, leaving more space for your emails. This is the summary of all the steps required to remove Gmail tabs on Android:
- Tap on the Gmail menu ☰
- Enter Settings
- Tap on your email account
- Uncheck the Chatbox and wait for Gmail to reload
- Enter the settings again and tap on your email account
- Uncheck Show Meeting tab to make video calls