Gmail iOS iPhone Mobile App Primer Tutorial
Just saying “Gmail” will have a lot of online users thinking …
… as an industry leader email client software suite. Even though it is not an Apple product the support is great in iOS-land and macOS-land to support a Gmail email account. On iOS and macOS, think access methodologies …
- webmail, by use in a web browser and typing in URL like https://gmail.com … or …
- set up the Mail app to point at a Gmail account … and also, for iOS, an access methodology we have avoided up until today …
- iOS Gmail mobile app via the (Apple) App Store
- but could also, on iOS, install another web browser, as alternative to Safari, and set up the https://gmail.com webmail URL there to point at the different Gmail account
… our “holding off” being that the top two serve all purposes I could think of for a single email account mode of use, on that iOS device.
But, continuing on with our “Gmail bromance” last talked about with Gmail Webmail Non-mobile Non-app Advanced Search Tutorial supposing you end up with the situation of …
- one iOS device
- two Gmail accounts
- practical sharing of that device to access the two different Gmail accounts (trying to make that procedure “unforgettable”)
… and we figure one user can use webmail and/or the Mail desktop application as Gmail email client application choices and the other can use that iOS Gmail mobile app (and/or that alternative web browser approach talked about above, but a bit kludgy feeling for us, we think).
And so today we show the very simple steps to install that iOS Gmail mobile app on an iPhone for your perusal.
Previous relevant Gmail Webmail Non-mobile Non-app Advanced Search Tutorial is shown below.
Gmail Webmail Non-mobile Non-app Advanced Search Tutorial
Around here we’ve had a week of “digging up bits of non-immediate communication” relating to organizational and end of year and car maintenance issues and we related to …
… Meatloaf’s “Two Out of Three Aint Bad” a lot, because where incarnations of Gmail …
- iPad via its Mail app … versus …
- macOS via Gmail Webmail (ie. not an app, but via a URL via a web browser)
… means of searching for email things were pitted against each other, and a lot of you will concur with our verdict … macOS via Gmail Webmail is sooooooo much better at this. Maybe that is (to do with) the devices, perhaps, but there has also got to be an element of …
- you can lose functionality as a trade off for smaller screen sizes, on occasion
- you can lose (the feel of) “the room to move and think, and so are willing to wait for processes to finish” as a trade off for smaller screen sizes, on occasion
And though it may be there with “iPad via its Mail app” we relied on “macOS via Gmail Webmail” (incarnation’s) Advanced search option …
Mail & Spam & Trash
… to get us out of trouble successfully on “Two Out of Three Aint Bad” occasions with our “digging up” work. Even the third one, though not finding what we wanted, was not “inept”, but could not find it because it wasn’t there, and at least gave us piece of mind we’d looked everywhere for it.
There is another point here. The online wooooorrrllldd seems to be shaping towards putting pressure on “email” as becoming (like “cassettes” and “DVDs” and the like …) heading towards obsolescence. And though yours truly will fight tooth and nail against this because …
- we have a degree of disrespect for a “business practice” wooooooooooorrrrrrllllddd based on 24×7 … pitting …
- what we see as 90+% of the time the undue pressure of SMS and Notifications versus Email as being a halfway house of a modicum of “get back to you” leeway
… it could be that Spam is part of (the reason for) that “obsolescence” push. As a programmer I know it can be tricky to set up email arrangements that don’t end up as Spam (in Gmail’s mind) and perhaps there is some point here (for Gmail’s Spam algorithms), but I’d rather an “education program” for “Email Savvy” here, rather than ditching this great (“greatest”, for us) communication tool called “email”.
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