Working with Priority Inbox, Open Priority Inbox

Working with Priority Inbox

If you have configured Gmail on the web to show Priority Inbox, you can configure Gmail on your phone to show it as well. You can also set Priority Inbox as your default inbox.

If you receive a great deal of email, Priority Inbox can help you get through it faster, by separating what’s important from what’s not so important. Gmail does this by anylizing your new messages to predict what’s important, considering things like how you’ve treated similar messages in the past, how directly the message is addressed to you, and many other factors. You also teach Gmail what kinds of messages are important to you as you use it.

For more information about Priority Inbox, including how to show it in Gmail on the web so you can use it on your phone, visit Gmail on the web.

Open Priority Inbox

Priority Inbox is a list of conversations that Gmail or you have labeled important and that are also in your Inbox: they are new or you haven’t archived them or moved them to another label by hand or with a filter.

STouch the label at the top of any conversation list and then touch Priority Inbox.

OR

STouch Priority Inbox in the Labels screen.

See “Viewing conversations by label” on page 155.

OR

SPress Menu and touch the Go to Inbox menu item, available on many Gmail screens, if Priority Inbox is your default inbox.