How to Enable Pinch to Zoom Feature in Gmail Android App

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Few days ago, Google has unveiled Gmail 4.2 for Android. This new upgrade added some features to the app like drag your finger left or right to archive or delete a message, pinch to zoom in and display a message improved pictures as attachments.

And most attractive of the new features is, pinch-to-zoom which enables auto fit messages, depending on your device screen size. Before this upgrade, you have to keep scrolling left-to-right and top-to-bottom to read the entire message. But with this Pinch to Zoom Feature, you can simply pinch-to-zoom in like you do with a photo in the Gallery.

By default, this feature has been disabled in the Gmail 4.2 Android app. You will have to enable to from your Settings to get that feature.

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How to Enable “Pinch to Zoom” in Gmail Android App

Follow these easy steps to enable pinch-to-zoom (auto-fit messages) feature in the Gmail app on your Android phone –

  • Open the Gmail app from Menu.
  • Go to Settings, from the bottom right button.
  • Then tap on “General settings”.
  • Check the option with “Auto-fit messages”.

That’s it, Now go back to the inbox and open any email with lots of images, you can see that all messages are now auto-fit.

I hope this tutorial is helpful, share your views with us via comments below.

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3 Responses to “How to Enable Pinch to Zoom Feature in Gmail Android App”

  1. saurabh says:

    does gmail 4.2 will work on my samsung galaxy pocket android 2.3 .

  2. Helen Coyle says:

    Well it seems to me that I am getting to know these android apps. Thanks for the information 🙂

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