Gmail's 7 features that you might not have known

Gmail has become the most popular email program in the world with 1,5 billions of users for a reason. She has much more opportunities than competitors.

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Don't you want to make free phone calls from your email or translate a letter from English to Russian right in Gmail? Google's free email program, which turned 15 onwards this week, continues to amaze users with innovations.

Here are seven features you can do with Gmail, but you can't do with AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft Outlook.com, or Hotmail.

Call for free

Technically, Microsoft will allow you to call via Outlook.com, but during the call, you exit the program and go to Skype.

In Gmail, you need to click "Call" at the bottom left of the screen and enter your contact number. Calls to the United States and Canada are free and connected to the Google Hangouts app.

Translate to other languages

When an email arrives in a foreign language, depending on which version you are using, you can click “View translated message” at the top of the letter or click on three dots to the right of the letter and select “Translate message”. Directly on the spot, Google will translate it into English or any number of languages ​​from Albanian to Yiddish or another.

Let artificial intelligence help you make suggestions.

Using Google's Smart Assist, artificial intelligence finds out what you are trying to say and automatically completes the sentence for you. It also offers e-mail responses to save time when you press a key. For example, in the example below, the journalists of USA Today introduced “At what time do you want to meet,” and Google added “tomorrow”? In another email, he adds "will do" and "received" as the appropriate answers.

Send Gmail messages that will disappear at a specified time

This is not Snapchat, but the idea is the same. You can set an expiration date in Gmail and it will expire within a specific time period. You can even add an extra level of confidential protection by requiring a password that is sent to the recipient using a text message.

Ask for money or transfer to a friend directly in Gmail

Apple has this feature in its iChat program, but Google has it built directly into Gmail. You can ask for money or send it to a friend directly by mail—but you and your friend will have to sign up for Google Pay first.

See only selected letters

In Gmail, Google shares the most important messages in the Primary folder and places the rest in two other, rarely viewed categories, Social Networks and Offers. Thus, all these endless offers for sales and updates on the forums do not clutter up your main inbox.

Schedule about sending email

This is a new feature that will appear in Gmail soon. When you click the "Send" button, you will be asked to send it now or send it later.

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