Google is souping up Gmail with features from its Gemini 3 AI app. Here's what to know — including how to opt out.

There is a support note, if you can find it. Here’s the link. “Starting January 2026,” Google tells users of the world’s most popular email platform, "Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts through POP. The option to ‘Check mail from other accounts’ will no longer be available in Gmail on your computer."

Gmail's new feature will soon organize important emails into to-dos and topics, so you don't miss anything important.

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If you mainly use Gmail on a PC, the only solution Google recommends is setting up automatic email forwarding to continue receiving messages from third-party accounts in your Gmail inbox once POP support ends. Services like Outlook and Yahoo! Mail support this.

Last summer, Google started rolling out Gemini in the Gmail side panel, giving users the ability to summarize email threads, see suggested responses, ask questions, and get help drafting an email using the AI chatbot. Nearly a year later, Google is back ...

Google added Gemini features on Gmail’s web interface that allowed for some calendar management capabilities late last year. The mobile Gmail app can now use Gemini for creating, deleting, or editing Calendar events, and give users a daily schedule summary.

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication MobileSyrup. Prior to joining Android Police, Oberoi worked on ...