Changing Gmail settings, Priority Inbox, Reply all, Auto-advance, Signature

Changing Gmail settings

You can change a number of settings for Gmail. Each Gmail account has its own settings, so your changes affect only the current account. See “Switch accounts” on page 140.

Notification volumes and some synchronization settings are changed in the Settings application. See “Settings” on page 353.

STo change Gmail settings, open your Inbox, press Menu , and touch More >

Settings.

General Settings

Priority Inbox Check to make Priority Inbox your default inbox, so it opens when you start Gmail with new messages (instead of Inbox), and you only receive notifications for new messages that are part of important conversations. This setting is not visible unless you have configured Gmail on the web to show Priority Inbox. See “Working with Priority Inbox” on page 149.

Signature Opens a dialog where you can enter text to append to every message you send. See “Appending a signature to your messages” on page 161.

Confirm actions Opens a dialog where you can check which actions open a dialog asking you to confirm that action: archiving, deleting, and sending messages.

Reply all When checked, replaces the Reply button in message headers with the Reply all button, so you don’t need to touch the arrow to access it.

Auto-advanceOpens a dialog where you can set which screen opens when you delete or archive a conversation whose messages you are viewing: the messages in the next conversation, the previous conversation, or the Inbox or other conversation list you’re working with.

Message text size Opens a dialog where you can select the size of text in the messages you read.

Batch operations When checked, adds a check box to the left of each conversation, so you can add it to a batch. See “Working with conversations in batches” on page 152.

Clear search history Touch to remove the history of the words you’ve searched for previously in Gmail in any account. See “Searching for messages” on page 159.