In the Gmail app, how can I view the actual email addresses an email has been sent to, rather than just the name? Sometimes the person in question has more than one email address and it would be useful to see which email address was used. The only method I've come up with so far is to hit reply all and then scroll around the cc: field, but that is clunky, particularly if there are quite a few recipients. Any better options? I am using Android 1.5 on a T-Mobile Pulse (aka Huawei U8220).

This would be helpful at times... I usually just end up pressing home and selecting the Gmail widget from there but I've gotten used to long-pressing home to get to recent apps. Could it be due to the fact that I get to email using the widget? Does it work with the native email client or other email apps?

in the gmail app on my android I mistakenly hit always show images on a particular sender, how do i turn that off? All the answers found say use the drop down by the senders address, but the link to ask to show images is missing. How to I turn this back back on for a particular sender?

Since .apk is a regular executable file, I was more than sure that I will be able to trick mobile Gmail in the same way as I was able to trick PC version of Gmail years ago to force it to send a PC executable (.exe) which it prevented as well. Turned out, I was wrong. Usually changing file extension to .dat or some other or compressing it with password (encrypting file) was enough for PC version of Gmail. However, for mobile version, everything that I have ready at a hand and tried failed as well: - sending as plain file (obviously), - changing .apk extension to .dat or some other, - compressing with ZIP with no password, - compressing with ZIP (ultra compression) and encrypting archive with a password, - compressing with 7ZIP (ultra compression) and encrypting archive with a password, - using an [7 years old idea](https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/35818/are-password-protected-zip-files-secure#comment55859_35818) of double compression: - compress .apk file into .zip file without password, - compress resulting .zip file again into another .zip file with password / encryption. If mobile Gmail is able to detect that I am sending .apk executable file even in 7zip compressed file with password (or it can prevent me from sending such file for any other reasons) do I have any option left? Is there any way to send .apk file over mobile Gmail (attach them to message composed in mobile Gmail)?

I tried using the attached image option and thought I would be able to drag the image into place but this didn't work. Is it possible to do insert inlined images directly on Gmail?

I'm going to make another attempt to find a solution to this. This has been the bane of my life, all the time without interruption, since I bought my first "smart" phone in 2012. I've always had an Android. My current phone is a Samsung J6 dual-sim, so quite old. But a few years ago it was relatively new: in fact I may have bought it on the recommendation that upgrading might solve the problem. No. Just today a client sent me an email and there was no notification for at least 4 hours. All the settings relating to Gmail are COMPLETELY correct. When I then sent myself an email to that address, yup, the notification sounded within less than a minute. The client in question was sending an email from France to me (in the UK). I struggle to believe this could be significant in 2025, but don't rule anything out. But it happens again and again and again. Over those 13 years I have lost 000s of £ due to clients sending me an email (always Gmail) and me not receiving the notification in a timely manner. By "timely" I mean maybe within 30 minutes. Though why notifications shouldn't be received as fast as the emails themselves I have always failed to understand. I have tried turning off battery optimisation and many, many other things. If you have a solution, please don't assume that a setting on your phone exists on my phone: it may, it may not. I believe (not entirely sure) that the gmail ICON does in fact appear in the top left of the phone: i.e. the problem seems to be that the acoustic signal (notification) of an arrived email often does not sound, or sounds only very belatedly. For unknown reasons. I'm a coder and am now inclined to see if I can develop an app, an extremely simple app, which, every minute or so, does a check to see whether this particular Gmail account has an email sitting there waiting to be read, and then MAKES A SOUND. I have never coded for Android and assume it would be quite annoying to develop this. If this is a possible solution surely someone must already have come up with something like it. There is a Reddit question on this theme from 2 years ago. One answerer replies as follows: > Android Gmail isn’t “checking” emails but is the Google Firebase Cloud Messaging pushing notifications to the device. That process should be instant, however for battery saving reasons Google (which made FCM as part of Google Mobile Services on your phone) decide to delay the display of some notifications including Gmail, on my device Gmail notifications are delayed until I unlock it. The solution will be using a local email client and keep that app open, or use another cloud based email client that pulls email to their server then use FCM to push to your phone, which less likely to cause delay. It seems that this person's first language is probably not English, and I'm having difficulty understanding either the suggested technical problem or the suggested solution. If someone here believes this holds a possible key, please try and explain it to me: "a local email client": what might that mean? And could "battery saving reasons" still be the culprit even if I have the optimisation completely turned off (which I do)? Any suggestions welcome. ***Later*** A couple of days of testing has in fact left me more frustrated than ever ... I simply don't understand. On my phone (Samsung J6 dual-sim) I now have no fewer than 3 alternative email apps (in addition to Gmail): BlueMail, Thunderbird and K-9. About 30 minutes ago I sent myself an email from another account (yahoo.co.uk) to my Gmail account (i.e. the one I use for my clients, where I want to get a sound notification every time a new email arrives). THE ONLY app which actually sounded was Gmail. Neither Bluemail, Thunderbird nor K-9 made any sound at all... and no notification icon is showing other than the Gmail one. In THEORY, Bluemail is set to "pull" ("fetch") emails every 3 minutes, and Thunderbird and K-9 are set to pull every 15 minutes. NONE of these apps is working at all. Over the past couple of days, as I've been testing things, I've occasionally had the sound notification from Thunderbird. Hardly ever from Bluemail. What could possibly explain these infuriating (apparent) failures of these apps to do what they're intended to do?

I have an old Samsung Galaxy S7 running Android 8.0. I was using the Gmail app version 2025.03.16.738445112.release. I opened a message from a trusted contact that contained a reference to a Google doc (a JPG file). Because I do not display images by default, I could not see it, so I touched "Show pictures." The app displayed the image, which I wanted to expand. It would not zoom in, and nothing happened when I simply tapped on it. So I pressed on it for a few seconds, and thumbnail "ghost image" appeared near the middle of my screen. It was semi-transparent and appeared on every screen I could navigate to. Unfortunately, it also seemed to limit my interactions with the screen, and when I locked the phone, it appeared on the lock screen. I could not interact with the lock screen: swiping to unlock the phone did nothing; swiping to answer the phone did nothing; swiping to make a call did nothing; touching the notification bar did nothing; I could not turn the phone off because tapping the power/restart icons did nothing. Eventually, I force-restarted the phone, and the problem seems to have gone away. Below is what it looked like on the lock screen. It appeared on all screens in the same place. Additional info: Gmail using my laptop browser rendered the attachment properly, and I was able to interact with it, no problems. Can anyone explain this strange behavior?

I'm using Android 4.1 on a Droid Razr M. Is there any way to send an email to a contact Group? I've read several posts that show how to do this but none of them actually work. There is also an app (GroupU ) but it would be nice to be able to send to groups *within* Gmail.

Basically on my Huawei Mate 20 I am using Gmail. When I get an e-mail with an attachment and download it, it always goes to the "Downloads" folder. But I want to be able to choose the location each time I download an attachment. Is it possible?

I have recently reinstalled Android on B63M due to some problems with the SD Card. I decided to keep all my contacts **only** in Gmail, as a centralized solution to avoid problems in the future. I do **not** want other SIM or phone contacts to show in the contacts list anymore. However, if I try to uncheck both the SIM and phone contacts and I *do* check all possible Google contacts groups and the option for showing only contacts with a phone number1, **no** contact is shown at all. If I also show the phone contacts, then the Google contacts *are* shown (and thus I have some duplicates), but removing the phone contacts removes the Google contacts too. Note that **the contacts are perfectly synched and all under the *My contacts* group**. It's **not** a synchronisation problem. I'm asking why I *must* select the *show phone contacts* in order to see *any* contact at all (from whichever source you like. Even SIM. I *cannot* show only the SIM contacts without the *show phone contacts* enabled.) To make things clearer, here are some screenshots of the situation: Here I have set *only* the phone contacts (*Contatti del telefono* in Italian), without Google contacts: Here I have added the Google contacts in the options *and they are shown* (see red rectangles. Note the number of contacts at the top going from 116 to 156): Now, I'd expect that removing the phone contacts I should see only the Google contacts (in this case those that above have red rectangles and the other not shown), but this is what I get: On the right, it just says that there are no contacts to show and that I can add new contacts or import/export from other sources. What should I do such that this last set of options *does* show the Google contacts? ------ 1 Having or not this option active doesn't change anything. Even if it is not active no contact is shown.

When I compose a new message in Gmail on my Android phone I'm offered several suggestions for the recipient (i.e. for the email's To: field) via an autocomplete function. These are often very old/unknown contacts which I'd like to no longer see as autocomplete suggestions, but I can't yet work out how to clear this list. The contacts suggested appear to have come from an old list of "Other" contacts, i.e. people that I've contacted infrequently and who were not actual contacts I've added to my contact list. These only show up when I compose a new message in Gmail on my phone, and the autocomplete works as expected when on a non-Android device (laptop). My assumption is that the Gmail autocomplete function is reading these outdated contacts from a list stored somewhere in a file on my phone which is impervious to the contact sync process or somehow not being cleared as expected otherwise -- I've tried all manner of syncing phone contacts, deleting old/other contacts outside of Android, etc. but no joy so far. An idea I have is to somehow search Android's filesystem for a file that contains the unwanted contacts and if found then wipe that file clean. Is this reasonable, and if so can anyone suggest guidance that'll make this less of a wild goose chase? My phone details: Model: Nexus 5X Android version: 7.1.2 Baseband version: M8994F-2.6.37.2.21 Kernel version: 3.10.73-ge570678 Build version: N2G47F Thanks in advance for any help or insight.

I've recently switched to Android from iOS. I'm a bit annoyed that my Gmail notifications do not include any of the body. It only displays the subject. This is what it looks like (not my phone, but it gets the point across). You can see that it doesn't show the body at all. I'd prefer it to look like this below How can I do this? I am on a Motorola Edge 50 Pro - Android 15.

I noticed messages were not being sent from the Gmail app. I checked to make sure auto sync is enabled and it is. Any ideas? Beside the message it just says sending. I have other email accounts used by the Gmail app (e.g. yahoo) and they work fine. Also I can send and receive find from Outlook on my computer. I don't know what else information to give so feel free to ask for more. I'm using Xperia Z2 with Android 4.4

How can I undo an edit in Gmail's compose field? For example, I write a draft email, select the entire text and remove it, how can I undo my remove action to get the text back?

My mother has a relatively new (2-3 months) Samsung Tab S9 FE tablet. It has developed a problem where if she attempts to scroll through the body of an email in Gmail, the body will blank out, as shown here: This happens whether scrolling with finger or stylus. If scrolling with the stylus, the small animated blue circle does appear even in the blacked out area. Scrolling back and forth will cause the email body to reappear, usually only very briefly. If I go back to the message list, then re-open an email, it appears normally again until the finger or stylus are used on the message body. The non-body parts of the screen (header, time banner up top) still show during the email body disappearance. If you click through a link in the email and open a browser, it displays normally even when scrolling. Moving through the desktop (e.g. flipping between screens or bringing up the list of applications) all works with scrolling activity. **What I've done:** I turned off dark mode in the gmail message settings. I went into Settings -> Display and toggled every setting back, reproduced the behavior, and forth. Things like light mode/dark mode, refresh rate, and Vivid colors. None of those settings made any difference. **Device details:** Device is a Galaxy Tab S9 FE, model SM-X510. One UI version 6.1.1, Android version 14, security patch level 10/1/2024. Current version X510XXS6BXJ1/X510OXM6BXJ1

I recently did a factory reset on my Pixel 6a (running Android 14). Now I find that I get a separate notification in the notification shade for each incoming e-mail. So, for example, if five e-mails have come in since the last time I looked at my phone, I have to swipe away five completely separate notifications. Before I did the factory reset, the behavior I was accustomed to was a single expandable notification that showed *all* new e-mails together. I'd still hear the notification alert sound for each incoming e-mail, but it would then just be added to the existing notification rather than generating a new one. I could either swipe them away individually, or swipe them all away with one gesture. I assume that, at some point, I have changed a setting that governs this behavior, but I can't figure out which setting is relevant. I tried Googling this behavior, but I can't find anything directly on point. What am I missing?

On my Samsung S24, I am using **Fairmail** for my emails. I have a number of Google and non-Google email accounts. In GMail->Settings and Settings->Accounts (they are probably the same settings) - Manage Accounts -> Auto Sync Data is off - Each account has syncs for all items off Yet, GMail is running in the background and sometimes fetches emails. **Is there a way to stop it from running altogether?**

Is there any way to remove a device from google play without having the phone ? I've lost my phone a while ago and i can't log in into Google Play from a new phone without removing it from the lost phone. Please help.

As a programmer, I really despise any email not written in plain text (MIME type plain/text) and not wrapped at 80 chars width. However, the default Gmail app only sends the emails I compose as text/html. Is there any way, setting, and/or app to get my favourite formatting?

When replying to an email on an Android phone using Gmail, the reply-to header is ignored and the reply goes to the sender instead of the address provided in the Reply-To header. The same email sent to a desktop using Windows 11 works correctly and the reply to is addressed to the correct person. What can I do as this is a serious bug from Google?