Google starts migrating more Gmail users to Inbox

Over the past few weeks, Gmail users have been receiving requests asking them to try-out Google’s “Inbox by Gmail” service. It’s being said Google might be considering quietly killing off Gmail and replacing it with the new Inbox.

The Inbox notification box states, “Thanks for trying Inbox! To make it easier we’ve updated Gmail to redirect you here”. It appears whenever a user logs into Inbox.

Uninterested users may also “turn it off” and continue using Gmail. This means users can still keep their gmail.com and inbox.google.com domains disconnected, reports Forbes.

Google introduced Inbox in October 2014. To date, the search giant had kept Inbox as a separate service. Now, it seems the company is eager to position Inbox as a replacement for Gmail.

According to Forbes, Google began migrating users from Gmail to Inbox for quite some time. Initially, the company sent notifications to a select group of people. Positive feedback encouraged Google to expand the domain.

It seems the option to be redirected to Gmail existed earlier. Then Inbox asked if a user wants to enable redirection. Now, Google has become more proactive and is asking all users if they want to migrate from Gmail to Inbox by default, reports 9to5Google. Moreover, users can manually enable or disable the forwarding process from the Settings page of Inbox by Gmail.

Google named its secure webmail service Gmail and made it available to the general public on Feb. 7, 2007. As of May 2015, Gmail has 900 million active users across the globe.

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