Moving To The New Gmail - Updates

Gmail recently introduced an Early Adopter Program (EAP) for the new Gmail, with new capabilities like Gmail offline and nudging. To prepare persons or an organization for the General Availability (GA) launch, below are additional details on the rollout schedule.

New Gmail Design Interface

New Gmail launching to GA in July 2018

At the moment, the new Gmail is an EAP, and customers can choose to participate (or not) at the domain and organizational unit levels. After the new Gmail launches to GA in July 2018, G Suite admins will have the following options in the Admin console

• Immediately transition users to the new Gmail. For a period of time, users will still have the option to opt out.

• Allow their users to opt in to the new Gmail at the time of their choice. For a period of time, users will still have the option to opt out.

• Wait approximately four weeks until their users are allowed to opt in to the new Gmail. For a period of time, users will still have the option to opt out.

This will be the default setting; during the four weeks period, and users will not have the option to opt-in to the new Gmail.

In the region of Eight (8) weeks after the General Availability (GA) announcement in July, any users who haven’t yet been transitioned to the new Gmail will be automatically migrated to the new experience. They’ll have the option to opt out of the new Gmail for an additional four weeks.

Opt-out option removed 12 weeks after GA

In the region of 12 weeks after the GA announcement in July, any users who’ve opted out of the new Gmail will be automatically migrated to the new experience, with no option to opt out. Users who’ve already transitioned to the new Gmail will lose the ability to opt out.

Additional features and Admin console settings

Please note that features with dedicated Admin console settings, like Gmail offline and confidential mode (launching at a later date), will respect any current EAP configurations when the new Gmail launches to GA. If organizations, or individual does not evolve in the EAP, these settings will be OFF by default when the new Gmail launches to GA.