Google started rolling out an updated user interface for Gmail in February. It’s becoming opt-out instead of opt-in, so your account will switch over to the new view by default.
Google’s current flavor-of-the-week messaging app and weaves its workspace suite into a better competitor for office. This puts more of a focus on the updated experiences.
The updated UI collects buttons for mail, meet, spaces, and chat into a list at the top of the left rail. You can quickly jump into a conversation in any one section as a list will pop out when you mouse over its icon icon icon.
If you want to have one particular form of communication on screen without the others, it’s a little easier to do that. Chat and the rest are n’t listed underneath your inboxes and labels anymore.