Bonus: It will remember your preference, so if you open up Gmail again, it will still be hidden. If you do this, it will, unsurprisingly, hide the sidebar. Just click the little arrow (it pops up and says “hide side panel” if you hover over it - I guess that’s the sidebar’s formal name). Until now, though, you were stuck with it, sticking out like a sore thumb and shoving apps in your face that you don’t want. For them, this sidebar is entirely useless. It goes without saying that some people don’t use any of these apps - and many of those, in fact, never use any third-party Gmail apps at all. The three that are there by default are Google Calendar, Google Keep, and Google Tasks. Along the right side of the screen, right below your Google account avatar, there’s a new sidebar that gives you quick shortcuts to Gmail companion apps. It’s one of the most obvious new features when you open the new Gmail for the first time. Now, Google’s letting you hide that pesky new Gmail sidebar that you never use. We’ve been fans of it for quite a while from purely an aesthetic perspective, but it’s definitely had some places where it feels like Google chose form over function.
Google launched a completely redesigned Gmail on the web, featuring the Google Material Theme, earlier this year.
