Gmail's new look will soon appear for more people by default

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Google began pushing an updated user interface for Gmail in February that pulls Meet, Chat and Spaces closer. However, Google said your account would automatically switch to the new view yesterday. Users shall begin to experience the default switch soon. It is more like a style change, not that it is such a big change. It weaves its Workspace suite into a better Office competitor, focusing more on the updated experiences.

The new user interface collects buttons for Mail, Meet, Spaces, and Chat, arranging them into one list at the top of the left rail rather than showing several conversations from each one in a list. Google has made the buttons more accessible without having everything on the screen simultaneously. With the new interface, you can seamlessly and in a flash move into a conversation in any one section as a list pop out when you hover your mouse over its icon.

Now, if you want any form of communication on screen without the other (like Gmail), it's a little easier since Chat and the others are not listed underneath your inboxes and labels anymore.

Users can choose the apps they wish to include in the Quick Settings menu based on Google's instructions. Users can easily switch to the old look if preferred in the Quick menu. Unlike the usual 15-day rollout for new features, Google says the rollout is an extended one. Hence, while it's coming to Workspace and personal Gmail accounts, it could take longer than a couple of weeks for your interface to change over on its own.

Users that wish to test it would be able to opt-in (and back out) from the quick settings menu right now, as long as the user has already switched to Chat from Hangouts and positioned Chat in the left-hand menu.

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