“IMPORTANT message for everyone using Gmail,” engineering YouTuber Davey Jones wrote in a viral X PSA on this alleged digital Trojan Horse. “You have been automatically OPTED IN to allow Gmail to access all your private messages & attachments to train AI models.”

This is a marked change for Gmail, more than twenty years after the platform launched. It has generated plenty of coverage as a response, but it comes with caveats — only a limited number of changes over a limited period of time. For anyone stuck with their twenty-year-old high school or college email address, it will come as a relief.

Love Google AI Overviews? Now they're in your inbox We hope you like more AI in your Gmail inbox, because Google is "bringing Gmail into the Gemini era." It'll be on by default, but the good news is that you can disable it.

Many people create their first email address as teenagers reflecting youthful interests: a favorite baseball team, a beloved cartoon character, or something we found hilarious but probably shouldn’t have.

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.

"The email address associated with your Google Account is the address you use to sign in to Google services. This email address helps you and others identify your account. If you’d like, you can change your Google Account email address that ends in gmail.com to a new email address that ends in gmail.com."

Gmail users can now switch email addresses without losing old messages or data. Google is finally allowing Gmail users to change their email addresses without losing their data. This long-awaited feature addresses a common frustration for users who have been stuck with outdated or unprofessional email addresses created years ago.

In many ways, our email inboxes are a proxy for the rest of our lives, filled both with meaningless distractions and mission critical priorities. People use email differently and many wise folks give out their address parsimoniously to avoid message clutter.