You can now block annoying stuff on Gmail

Now, Gmail users can easily block mails from unwanted people or organizations with just a few taps. Google has rolled out an update to Gmail that enables users to instantly block and unsubscribe specific email addresses and clean up their inbox.

“Stay in control of your inbox,” Sri Harsha Somanchi, Product Manager Google, wrote in an official Gmail Blog post.

From Tuesday, the block function is live via Gmail on the Web. Once blocked, all future mails from the particular email address will land in the spam folder.

Email filters always existed on Gmail, but were never quite that easy to use. Users had to dig into the Gmail Settings and add new filters to the filters tab. To block a person, a user needed to open an email from this person, click the drop-down menu and select “Block Sender.”

On the other hand, users can also unblock the sender from Gmail Settings. Go to Settings > Filters and Blocklist > Unblock selected sender and save changes.

The unsubscribe option is also “making its way” to Gmail on all Android devices, allowing users to easily unsubscribe promotional emails and newsletters that are now redundant. This seems to be a useful feature since people generally subscribe to newsletters for a specific purpose. Even after subscribing, however, mails keep pouring in and fill up the inbox.

Users can simply open an email, click “More” at the top right corner and select “Unsubscribe.” The feature will be available for all Android devices from the coming week. There has been no news if iOS users will get the update or not.

For years, Google has been trying to focus on important and relevant mails to ensure a better user experience. It has also categorised emails into sections or tabs like Primary, Social and Promotions to sort important emails. With the latest block and unsubscribe feature, Google will help users get close to inbox zero, reports Wired .

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