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Experience the world-class mailing features with Gmail

Gmail is one of the finest email service providers that have more than 1.5 billion active users.

By alternativenumberPublished 3 years ago Updated 2 years ago 3 min read
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You can access your Gmail account for free on any web browser. Another way to access Gmail is to download the application on your phone and enter your login credentials. There are multiple features that you can perform on your Gmail account. Some of them are sending and receiving emails, block spam, create an address book, and many other. So, it is better to make your Gmail account avail of all the benefits. But before that, check out the basic features of Gmail.

Features of Gmail

Spam filtering

The other name of junk email is spam. A Gmail account practices advanced technologies to keep spam out of your inbox. The spam is sent to a separate spam folder, after which the account deletes it after 30 days.

Conversation View

A conversation is when you send and receive emails from another person. Gmail clubs your discussion, which will make your Gmail more organized.

Built-in chat

Gmail provides a unique service where instead of sending an email, you can send an instant message or access the voice and video chat feature if your device has a microphone and webcam.

Call Phone

Call phone is a unique feature provided by Gmail. Just like voice chat, you can dial the actual phone number to make a call to anyone in the world. Also, the calling charges are free to use in the United States and Canada. If you want to place a call outside these two countries, the costs will be relatively low.

Advantages of accessing Gmail

Smart Compose and Smart Reply

Automatic email filtering/categorization

Summary cards above your email show package tracking or your travel updates.

With the help of event details, you can create calendar entries

Intelligent search suggestions

Email nudges and high priority notifications

Remarkable writing suggestions

Steps to create your Gmail account

After going through the features and advantages, you must want to create your account in Gmail. So, to make your Gmail account ideally, follow some basic steps. The steps will help you to create your account swiftly and effortlessly.

To start creating a Gmail address, you need to create a Google account firstly. Gmail will take you to the Google account sign-up page, where you have to provide some of your basic details such as your name, birth date, gender, and location. Also, you have to choose a name for your new Gmail address. After creating your account, you can go for adding contacts and managing your email settings.

Launch the official website of Gmail on your chosen web browser.

You will see a sign-in box of Gmail where the box will ask you for your email or phone.

Below the box, there will be multiple options.

Among those, click on the option of "Create Account."

After doing so, a new page will open up.

On that page, you will see a sign-up form.

The sign-up form will ask for your details.

Next, provide your phone number to verify your Gmail account.

Usually, Google access a two-step verification process for your security.

You will receive a verification code as a message on the phone number that you had provided.

Write that code to complete the account verification.

On the following page, you have to fill in your details.

The details that you need to fill in are your name and birthday.

Now, review Google's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

If you approve, click on the "I agree" option.

Lastly, you can access your Gmail account.

Bottom line

Now, you must be aware of the steps to create a Gmail account. If you already had an account, but forget its password, then Recover Gmail Password on Android to retrieve your account again. The procedure for Gmail account recovery is very forthright, which does not require any extra effort.

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