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Reading your messages
When viewing a list of conversations in your Inbox or in any list of labeled conversations, you open a
conversation to read its messages.
Gmail “pushes” new messages to your phone automatically: you don’t need to refresh your Inbox manually
(but see “Synchronizing your conversations by label”).
When you receive a new message, you also receive a notification in the Status bar, unless you’ve turned off
Gmail notifications using Gmail settings, where you can also set whether Email notifications vibrate the
phone and other settings (see “Changing Gmail settings”). If you’re using Priority Inbox as your default
inbox, you only receive notifications for important messages (see “Working with Priority Inbox”). When you
touch a Gmail notification, it opens the Inbox that contains the new message or, if you have new mail in
more than one account, it opens the Accounts screen.
Read a message
Touch a conversation that contains the message you want to read.
A conversation opens to the first new (unread) message or to the first starred message, if you’ve previously
starred a message in the conversation. See “Starring a message”.
The message header shows who sent the message, when, who it was sent to and other information. Icons
indicate whether the message has an attachment and the sender’s Google Talk online status. For more
information touch Show details. You can touch the message sender’s Quick Contact icon to open a list of
ways you can quickly contact the sender. See “Connecting quickly with your contacts”. When reading
messages in a conversation, you can use the buttons at the bottom of the screen to archive the entire
conversation (see “Archiving conversations”) or to delete it. If you delete a conversation, you can touch
Undo in the bar at the top of the screen to undelete it. (Conversations you delete from the Trash label are
not deleted in Gmail on the web.)
Use the left and right arrow buttons at the bottom of a message to open the next or previous conversation
in the Inbox.
Work with attachments
Gmail can display some kinds of attached images in a message. Others have a Preview or Download button
you can use. Depending on the applications installed on your phone, you may also be able to download and
read a variety of kinds of files, including spreadsheets (.xls), word documents (.doc), or PDF files (.pdf). Other
applications may add support for opening other kinds of file. Attachments you download are stored on your
phone’s USB storage or SD card. Image files are added to albums in Gallery. Viewing, reopening and deleting
this conversation has one label. Touch to view the sender and the first line of messages that you’ve already
read.
You can archive or delete the entire conversation or open the next or previous conversation. Touch to
quickly contact the sender by Google Talk, by phone or in other ways.