If you have an Android mobile, it is very likely that you use gmail as a mail manager. If so, today we have news for you and your inbox. Google is rolling out one of the best ideas they’ve had in a long time. It is related to the online shopping and the packages you receive at home. Now gmail It will make it a little easier for you to know how your shipment is going. The aim of the new function is to save time when searching tracking numbers and check them on the carrier’s website.
It can be a cumbersome action if you have many packages in the pipeline, each from a different store and carrier. Now Gmail wants to simplify everything, read your emails looking for tracking numbers and show you the compacted information without you having to do anything. Well, you just have to activate a new option in the settings.
Activate “Shipping Tracking” in Gmail
The function listens to the name of “shipment tracking«. Its objective is quite clear: it reads your emails looking for tracking numbers and delivery time information to show said information without you having to search for it. Besides, update information automatically.
Imagine that you place an order and the store sends you an email with the tracking number. In general, to find out how it’s going, you have to go in, find the number, copy it, go to Google, search the carrier’s website and copy the tracking number. Not now.
With the new option, Google does all this for you and display the information on a new card inside the mail What’s more, even in the inbox you can include the approximate date of arrival, so it is not even necessary to enter the mail.
If you enter the mail you will see an order status bar with information about the route and the delivery date. And yes, everything is automatic. You only have to activate the option once and that’s it. You can do it by entering Settings> Gmail account> Shipment tracking.
The feature is currently being rolled out worldwide and Spain is one of the regions included in the rollout. We recommend you visit the gmail settingsbecause it is possible that you can already activate the option.