
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority
TL;DR
- Gmail for Android will now use the person’s web-based e-mail signature if no mobile-specific one is about.
- The brand new function helps full formatting, together with photographs and logos, mirroring the desktop expertise.
- The change is offered to all customers of Google Workspace, Workspace Particular person, and private accounts.
Should you’re absolutely dipped within the Google ecosystem in your Android flagship, there’s an excellent likelihood that Gmail is your e-mail app and repair of selection. Aside from hating Gemini in Gmail, most individuals have little grievance. I’m an avid Gmail person for private {and professional} wants, and I did have a grievance with signatures on the app, and Google is fortunately fixing it (lastly!).
Electronic mail signatures are helpful repositories of knowledge that may be rapidly appended to any new e-mail or reply. Most individuals have a signature set for his or her skilled account, often denoting their full title, designation within the group, most well-liked pronouns, and any related addresses, net hyperlinks, or different info. Most organizations even have a set format for these signatures that staff have to observe.
It’s pretty simple to set a signature on Gmail on the net, however frustratingly, this didn’t sync over to the cellular app. So, in case you do care about replying to emails out of your telephone, you will need to additionally set a signature within the cellular app. Much more irritating is that the set signature additionally doesn’t migrate throughout telephones (not less than, it by no means has, in my expertise). So if I’m switching telephones, which I do continuously, I’ve to recollect to set a signature. I often don’t till I ship a couple of emails with out it and understand my omission.
As introduced within the Workspace weblog, Google is fixing the e-mail signature expertise. Any more, if no cellular signature is about within the Gmail app on Android, your net signature will probably be inserted when drafting an e-mail. This signature will assist photographs, logos, and textual content formatting, simply because it seems when sending from net Gmail.

Google mentions that in case you favor to not use the net signature in your Android system, you’ll need to set a non-empty cellular signature, like your title, for instance. Should you don’t have an online signature, you gained’t have a cellular signature both, so there’s nothing to fret about.
This modification will probably be accessible to all Google Workspace clients, Workspace Particular person Subscribers, and customers with private Google accounts. The rollout is alleged to be full for iOS gadgets and underway for Android gadgets, although Android customers had noticed the change as early as final month.
I, for one, positively respect this quality-of-life enchancment. I can simply create signatures on my desktop and never fear about setting any on my cellular gadgets, no matter which one I take advantage of. It additionally signifies that I’ve to alter signatures at one spot too, and never fear about updating it throughout my gadgets. Do you want this alteration? Tell us within the feedback under!