Google has announced that it will discontinue the basic HTML view of Gmail next year. After this discontinuation, everyone who uses the basic HTML view will be switched to the Standard view ...

But that simplicity is what made the basic HTML view so perfect. Because it takes so little data to access, you could still access Gmail with a bad internet connection or while on an ancient device.

As of January 2024, Google is discontinuing the option to display Gmail on your browser in the Basic HTML view. A new post in Google's Help Center says Gmail will automatically change to Standard ...