This time the scythe is coming for one of the company’s oldest features—Gmail’s basic HTML view. In January 2024, that simple interface ... in a Google help page around mid-September.

Standard view is a richer version of the program, and Basic HTML is a simple version useful for slow connections and outdated browsers. In an email, a Google representative acknowledged that the ...

The company is sunsetting Gmail’s basic HTML view, which allows users to look at their emails in a bare-bones state, starting January 2024. The company updated its support page to reflect that ...