How to disable Gmail’s most annoying new feature in the app and online

[Zach Epstein]

• Gmail completely revolutionized email and Google continues to improve the service all the time with wonderfully useful new features.
• Not all new features appeal to everyone, however, and there's one recent addition to Gmail's mobile app and website that so many users have been complaining about.
• Here, we'll show you how to disable Google Meet in the Gmail app on the iPhone and Android apps as well as on Google's Gmail website.

Longtime readers of BGR will know that our love of Google's apps and services is hardly a secret. Call Google evil all you want, but we couldn't be happier to give Google access to our data in exchange for the best software products on the planet. In fact, we still hope to one day realize our dream of having Google completely take over our iPhones. The company's apps and services are packed with so many brilliant features and fantastic integrations that it pains us to think about what life was like before things like Google search, Google Maps, and Gmail came along. Of course, nothing is perfect and there are always going to be a handful of features here and there that people don't like.

As everyone is quite aware, the novel coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc. This is particularly true in the United States, where a mind-boggling lack of leadership has sent COVID-19 cases skyrocketing with no end in sight. Travel restrictions or not, many people are staying put in an effort to protect themselves and their loved ones from contracting the potentially deadly virus. That has led to a massive boom in popularity for video chat apps.

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