There is a support note, if you can find it. Here’s the link. “Starting January 2026,” Google tells users of the world’s most popular email platform, "Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts through POP. The option to ‘Check mail from other accounts’ will no longer be available in Gmail on your computer."

Gmail is getting AI Overviews, smarter suggested replies, and upgraded proofreading tools as Google deepens its Gemini rollout.

Google is souping up Gmail with features from its Gemini 3 AI app. Here's what to know — including how to opt out.

New Gmail features, powered by the Gemini model, are part of Google’s continued push for users to incorporate AI into their daily life and conversations.

One feature Gmail's launching is AI Overviews, which summarize information in your inbox, apparently building on the already-launched autogenerated email summaries. AI Overview can also be able to answer questions about what's in your inbox, but this feature will only be available to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.

This is a marked change for Gmail, more than twenty years after the platform launched. It has generated plenty of coverage as a response, but it comes with caveats — only a limited number of changes over a limited period of time. For anyone stuck with their twenty-year-old high school or college email address, it will come as a relief.

Previously seen (not always positively) in Google Search, AI Overviews are now coming to Gmail. Working in an almost-identical fashion, the feature will be able to quick find and condense information from a range of sources (in this case, your emails) into a brief and (hopefully useful) summary.

The most broadly available tool will be a “Help Me Write” option designed to learn a user’s writing style so it can personalize emails and make real-time suggestions on how to burnish the message.