Gmail Priority Inbox now available on iPhone

The official Gmail blog has announced that the Priority Inbox feature, which uses an algorithm to mark what it thinks are important emails in your inbox, is now available on the web version of Gmail for the iPhone. If you've set up the service to work on your usual browser, it'll now also work on Gmail for Mobile, which is up and running in HTML5 on iPhones everywhere.

I use Gmail almost exclusively for all of my email, yet aside from a short trial when it was first released, I've never really had much interest in Priority Inbox. I do a much better job of sorting my email than Google's algorithm, and I'm too worried that I'll miss something important that should have been prioritized if I depend on the formula.

But a feature is a feature, and since Gmail is free anyway, those of you who use Priority Inbox will probably be happy to see it the next time you log into Gmail from a mobile device.

[via MacStories]

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Source: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/priority-inbox-in-gmai…

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Xen

You guys hate it when facebook changes layouts too, right?

Priority inbox is awesome and just because the algorithm isn't perfect doesn't mean you all of a sudden have no control over your inbox. If it's important but not marked as such, mark it yourself! One click.

February 07 2011 at 11:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Karl

Native GMail app please.

February 07 2011 at 11:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Kim

Have to give Google credit for their continuous effort to roll out interfering and useless services and features that clogg up the UI and user experience.

Wish they would stop. Or that Yahoo and Bing would get their act together.

February 07 2011 at 8:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Nick (xbl: andsoitgoes42)

I really wanted to like Gmail Priority, but at the end of the day, for me, it was pointless and did me no favors.

Shame...

I would like the iPhone mail app to be updated so we could do more through Gmail, honestly. I can't fiddle with tags properly and when I delete, it goes into some netherworld I can never find properly.

ah well, I can only expect so much, I guess. In comparison to other options on OTHER phones (Windows Mobile, I'm looking at you...) the iPhone option is still aces.

February 07 2011 at 6:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply