Gmail uses the “Your device use” permission for this feature. The permission can be revoked in Chrome’s settings, though, under Settings > Security and Privacy > Site Settings > Additional Permissions. Gmail’s settings menu has no option to manually enable this feature or to turn it off once activated. Click Continue and then Allow when prompted by your browser.Ĭlicking to continue brought up a prompt asking for permission to “know when you’re actively using this device,” after which the feature was active. To pause Gmail mobile notifications while you’re active on this device, allow your browser to detect if you’re active or away. Pause mobile notifications while you’re using this device As far as we can tell, Google has not publicly documented this feature on its support pages, but it was functional on our test account. In one email account today, Gmail displayed a new option to pause mobile notifications while the desktop client is active. Notably, there still appears to be no setting to manually turn the feature on or off. We’ve observed the option across multiple Gmail accounts owned by three individual members of our team. Update 3/25: Gmail appears to be rolling out this feature widely as of this week, roughly a month after we first spotted it in testing. Check if your Gmail message is authenticated If you see a question mark next to the senders name, the message isnt authenticated. We’ve observed Gmail offering an option to pause notifications on your smartphone if you’re actively using the desktop client. Google is currently in the process of rolling out some major updates to Gmail’s web client on desktop devices, and it seems another feature is coming.
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