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- iOS Gmail app gets background sync to cut new mail lag
Posted by : Unknown
Wednesday 5 March 2014
Until now, the Gmail iOS app only began synchronizing with Google's servers once it had been actually opened on the iPhone or iPad. That meant a lag in seeing the latest messages, even if they'd shown up in lockscreen notifications already.
Meanwhile, there's now sign-in access across multiple Google iOS apps, including YouTube, Chrome, Google Maps, and Google Drive. Signing into Gmail with one account shares those login credentials across each of the other apps, including if you're securing your account (as you really should be) with 2-step verification.
Google Drive got cross-app sign-in access back in November 2013, in addition to support for multiple accounts. Printing abilities for documents stored in the cloud storage was also enabled.
Google warns that users may have to re-login after updating the Gmail app, which is available now in the App Store.