Google has made its Gmail for iOS app more relevant by adding background app refresh option to tackle the apparent lag plaguing the app.
Through the update Gmail for iOS is now much more relevant and competitive considering that the app now fetches email even when it is not open. However, this doesn’t come out of the box once the app is updated and users are required to at least enable one type of notification – be it badge, alert or banner notification.
“The app now fully supports background app refresh, which means your Gmail messages will be pre-fetched and synced so they’re right there when you open the app,” notes Google’s software engineer Melissa Dominguez in a blog post.
Google has also implemented single sign-in across its apps allowing users to access other services while they are logged onto another service. “The Gmail app also now supports sign-in across Google iOS apps, including Maps, Drive, YouTube and Chrome”, notes Dominguez.
“Sign in to one, and you’ll be signed in to all (this also works for signing out). So you won’t have to type in that 27-character password or retrieve your 2-step verification code every time you navigate to another Google app.”
You can download the updated app here.
