PSA: Gmail’s new package deal monitoring interface is now stay if you already know the place to look

Gmail’s iOS and Android apps have been up to date with a brand new interface that makes it simpler to see the place your packages are in transit, and after they may arrive. The function was announced last November, when Google mentioned it might be arriving “within the coming weeks,” but it surely’s solely been noticed within the wild by the likes of 9to5Google and XDA-Developers over the previous couple of days. It’s unclear precisely when it went stay, however the function seems to be obtainable now if you already know the place to look.

The function is presently opt-in, making it straightforward to overlook it if you happen to don’t know the place to look. Google’s unique weblog submit saying the function had a screenshot of a prompt within the Gmail app asking if you wish to flip the function on, however for now most individuals are seemingly having to dig via the app’s settings to allow it. On iOS the “Bundle monitoring” toggle will be discovered within the “Information privateness” menu, whereas on Android a toggle of the identical identify will be discovered within the “Basic” settings part, according to Android Police. 

Certain sufficient, once I enabled the function in Gmail’s iOS app I may see the brand new supply monitoring interface for a latest eBay buy which was shipped by way of UPS. The brand new interface highlights when the merchandise was delivered in the primary Gmail inbox display screen, and supplies a extra detailed view once I faucet into the e-mail itself. In distinction, the outdated interface exhibits no monitoring information in the primary inbox view (past what a retailer may embody in an electronic mail’s topic line), and I’ve to faucet a hyperlink within the electronic mail to see monitoring info. 

The function doesn’t seem like supported throughout all supply providers. Though it’s working for me within the UK with an order shipped by UPS, it doesn’t seem like showing for the same UK-based order shipped by way of French-headquartered supply firm DPD, or for an order to my Netherlands-based colleague by way of Dutch courier PostNL. Google beforehand mentioned that the interface could be supported by “most main US delivery carriers.”

Nonetheless, when it really works Gmail’s new package deal monitoring function is a neat little function, and turning it on looks like a no brainer.