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Calvin Wankhede \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n
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If your email inbox gets flooded with messages each day, it can be a chore to go through them all. One way to efficiently deal with this influx is to mark some emails as \u201cread,\u201d keeping them in your inbox without distracting you from more important matters. After all, you can often tell if an email needs your immediate attention just from the sender, subject line, and the first few lines of the message. Unfortunately, if you use Gmail for Android<\/a> and want to mark an email as read, you have to open the app, as there\u2019s no shortcut in the notification to do it. Thankfully, that could change soon.<\/p>\n Earlier today, X user Kurt Gomez notified us that he was seeing a \u201cmark as read\u201d button in his Gmail notifications. He told us that the button only appeared for one of his accounts, suggesting the feature is rolling out on an account-by-account basis. He also confirmed he\u2019s on the latest version of Gmail for Android, version 2025.06.15. I have the same version installed, but I don\u2019t see the \u201cmark as read\u201d button for any of my accounts.<\/p>\n Besides our tipster, we\u2019ve only seen one other person report a \u201cmark as read\u201d button in Gmail. Another X user, Gilroy, also claimed<\/a> to have the button but didn\u2019t share a screenshot or specify their app version. With so few reports, it\u2019s likely Google is A\/B testing the feature with a small group of users to gauge engagement. This feature will likely be popular, however, as it\u2019s commonly found in other Android email apps and is already available in Gmail for iOS.<\/p>\n If you see the new \u201cmark as read\u201d button in your Gmail notifications, let us know in the comments below! If you don\u2019t have the feature yet, you could try an app called AutoNotification. It can replace Gmail\u2019s notifications with custom ones that include a \u201cread\u201d button.<\/p>\n Otherwise, you\u2019ll have to stick with the old methods for marking an email as read. You can either open the email directly (from either the notification or the inbox) or use a swipe gesture, provided you\u2019ve configured that action in Gmail\u2019s settings.<\/p>\n Hopefully Google will continue to add more quality-of-life features like this to the Gmail app for Android. While some of the new AI features in Gmail<\/a> are nice, I\u2019d much prefer the company work on implementing the basics, like the ability to edit filters and labels.<\/p>\n![\"Gmail](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Gmail-notification-on-Android-without-mark-as-read.jpg\"\/ "\\"Gmail")
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