Gmail's Android app could soon get a Select all button, making it easier to perform bulk actions like archiving or marking emails as read.
The Select all functionality will initially highlight the first 50 emails in your inbox, but tapping again allows you to select more.
Despite the limitation of only fetching 50 emails at a time, the addition of Select all will simplify managing large volumes of emails efficiently.
Gmail's Android app offers almost all the functionality as the web version. You have support for multiple inboxes, the ability to snooze or mute an email thread, assign a label, and more.
But there's one major drawback of the app. While selecting all emails on Gmail on the web is easy, the mobile app lacks such functionality.
So, if you want to archive or mark all emails on the current page as read, you must manually select them. It appears Google is finally working on adding a Select all functionality to Gmail's Android app.
The option will appear as soon as you tap one email in the app. After that, you can archive, snooze, mute, mark the emails as read/unread, and more.