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You work in a Google Workspace shop - through and through. Even if you are dealing with the most hardcore-set of attachment-sending, version12a-keeping, Word-for-screenshot-slinging individualists, nobody gets around Gmail, Calendar and Chat. That makes people who use anything but the official too not enviable free thinkers, but uninformed victims of misconfiguration. Put more bluntly:
Your experience will suffer if you use anything else but the genuine tools.
Let's take a look at how the experience suffers - worst, it will often suffer in ways the person does not even know. As Gmail and Calendar's evolution runs rings around the competition, the products are diverging ever more and those users are left behind.
Great-grandfather worked as solitary as an Excel analyst, so he could mix fruit however he wanted. You cannot - times have changed.
Gmail
Gmail
Historically, Gmail on iOS has not been able to add more non-Google accounts. Since everybody still had a secondary Notes email address, iOS users had it bad.
No longer! You can now add your private accounts from Yahoo, Hotmail and everything else. The secret is clicking your profile picture (it is a bit awkward). There you can set up as many accounts as you like. Once you do that, do yourself a favour and remove Apple Mail from your phone, otherwise it will keep synchronizing and eating battery as well as bandwidth.
Gmail
Apple Mail
Supports non-Google (work or private) accounts
Yes
No
Single inbox for multiple accounts
Yes
No
Directory lookup for Google Workspace addresses
Yes
No
Set out-of-office from mobile
Yes
No
Draft auto-synced to all devices
Yes
No
Apply multiple labels to one message
Yes
No
Offline access to email
Yes (5 seconds)
No
Profile images displayed
Yes (5 seconds)
No
Mail "categories" (social, promotions, updates)
Yes (5 seconds)
No
Event info at a glance (e.g., travel info)
Yes (5 seconds)
No
Conversation view
Yes (5 seconds)
No
Mark email as spam
Yes (5 seconds)
No
AMP mail (actions from
Yes (5 seconds)
No
AMP mail
Yes (5 seconds)
No
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