If you have preferences set up that mark specific emails as high priority, you can tell Gmail to notify you only when one of these emails comes in. Setting Notifications for “High Priority” Emails Only Once done, you can set up notifications as normal. Choose if you want to sync all emails or only those from the last thirty days. If you see the error message “Sync messages for this label to enable notifications,” then tap the “Sync messages” button at the top. If you’re already syncing this label, you should see all the notification options available to you. To start, tap the label you want to customize the settings for. There’s a chance that only Inbox and Sent have notification settings set up, and everything else is set to “Not synced.” If this is the case for you, don’t worry – we can fix that! You’ll see a list of labels on your account. Then, scroll down to “Manage labels” and tap it. To do this, select the email you want to customize as above. Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and many other messaging and email apps contain this feature. Depending on the app, you might be able to use its built-in settings to change its notification sound.
Again, this will allow you to identify what kind of email is coming in by the notification sound alone. Not all Android models allow you to customize notification sounds for individual apps. If you love the labels, you can set it up so each label has its own individual tone. Perhaps you have the one email address and an intricate labelling system to keep everything sorted. Perhaps you’re not a fan of having multiple email addresses rattling around. Tap another address and repeat the above process to set a different sound for each address on your phone. Then, keep tapping the backward arrow at the top left until you return to the email list. To set a custom sound for each address, simply set up a sound as you did above for one address. This means you can set a different sound for each email address you have connected to Gmail for Android, so you know which address got an email from the tone alone.
If you put two and two together, you’ll realise that Gmail handles the notification of each address separately. Namely, the fact that we selected an individual email address to change its notifications. Scroll down to “Inbox Notifications,” tap it, then tap “Sound” and change the notification to a sound you find more pleasing.īefore we move on, let’s take a second look at what we just did. Select the email address you use from the list that appears.