How to get iOS-style VIP alerts in Gmail for Android

February 01, 2017

Not everyone wants their Android phone to ding every time an email arrives. Many of us don’t even need Android alerts for every message that Gmail thinks is important. Instead, you might want notifications only for email messages from your most important friends and loved ones—your VIPs, as it were. Sounds like a great time for something like iOS’s handy VIP feature, but unfortunately, nothing quite like it exists for the Gmail app for Android. That said, there’s a relatively easy way to emulate it, as long as you’re willing to tinker with your Gmail settings in a desktop browser.Creating a VIP filter in Gmail First, visit Gmail in your desktop browser of choice, click the settings button (the one that’s shaped like a gear), then click the Filters and Blocked Addresses tab.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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