Did you know you can still use Gmail even when you don’t have access to the internet?
Well you can.
Here’s how to use Gmail offline.
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I’m Tasia and welcome back to my YouTube Channel where I share tech tips, app reviews,
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Today is all about working offline in Gmail.
So, let’s go!
First let’s learn how to use Gmail offline on desktop.
This works in the Chrome browser by the way.
From your inbox, click on settings, and select ‘see all settings’.
Here, in your settings at the top, you will have an offline tab.
Click on that offline option.
Then, all you have to do from here is toggle on the option to enable offline mail.
Once you’ve done that, you’re going to have a few other options.
First, Gmail will tell you how much space you’ve got available for offline mail on
your computer.
But underneath that are some sync settings where you can decide to store emails from
the last 7, 30, or 90 days.
And you can even decide whether or not you want to download attachments.
Now very important under the sync settings are the security settings.
Here, you’re going to decide what you want to happen to the data after logging out of
your Gmail account.
So you can choose to have it keep offline data on your computer or to remove offline
data from your computer.
If you choose to remove the data upon logout, data will need to be resynced when you log
back in.
Because what’s happening here is that you’re downloading this Gmail data to your computer
in order to have it stored there so you can access it when you’re offline.
So, once you’ve decided on your settings, just click on save changes.
Gmail will reload for you and you’re all set to use Gmail offline.
You’ll know it’s worked when you have a little ‘ready for offline symbol near
the top of your inbox.
But okay, how do you actually access Gmail offline once this is set.
Pfft, it’s easy peasy.
From your inbox hit command + D on Mac to add your inbox as a bookmark.
Then, when you’re not connected to wifi, from Chrome, you can either head to mail.google.com
or you can pull up your bookmarked inbox and your inbox will appear just like magic.
You can review existing emails and send emails as well.
When you send an email when you’re offline, your email goes into an Outbox folder where
it’ll be automatically sent as soon as you are back online.
So now let’s look at how to use Gmail offline on mobile.
We’ll start with iPhone.
By default, your Gmail app should be set to offline use.
So, let’s head to settings in the Gmail app, and scroll down to tap on ‘data usage’.
Here, you can toggle on or off the ability to download attachments, just like we could
on desktop.
Or, you could also limit data usage here as well.
If you tap on sync settings at the top, you can adjust the days of mail up to 90 day,
just like desktop as well.
Tap done when you’re done.
And this works pretty well the same on Android as well.
You’ll head to your Gmail settings and from here, tap on your Gmail account.
Scroll down to the data usage settings.
Here, your Sync Gmail option should already be enabled.
You can tap to adjust how many days of mail you want to sync and whether or not you want
to download attachments.
And on mobile, sending emails works the same as we saw on desktop.
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Now back to our Gmail app.
When you’re offline, from the app, you can still access your inbox - for however many
days worth of emails you set it to store.
And, you can still send emails as you normally would.
Once again, the emails will be stored in your outbox until you are back online.
Once you’re back online, they’ll be sent automatically for you.
Can you believe how easy it is to use Gmail offline?
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So that’s how to use Gmail offline on desktop and mobile.
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