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 heads for the great beyond.

This week we learned that Google is killing off Gmail’s Basic HTML view. As reported by TechCrunch, starting in January, 2024, Google will disable the stripped down HTML version of the Gmail web ...

"Basic HTML view will be supported until early January 2024. Until then, your organization can still use the current basic HTML view," Google shared in email notifications to Google Workspace admins.

Another day, another Google product goes to the graveyard. 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.

Google is discontinuing its basic HTML view for Gmail. Derek Poore/CNET As of January 2024, Google is discontinuing the option to display Gmail on your browser in the Basic HTML view.