Gmail New Feature preview Pane

How to Enable ‘Preview Pane’ feature in Gmail?

• Sign in to your Gmail account and stay on the inbox page.
• At the top most right, click on the ‘options’ icon. You will see a drop down menu. In that menu, click on the ‘Mail Settings’ option.
• You’re in the Settings page now! Click on tab Labs
• Now, in the list of lab features displayed below, go to ‘Preview Pane’ option,
• By default it will be disabled,Enable it and save changes

After you enable Preview Pane from the Labs tab in Gmail Settings you’ll see a toggle button in the top right corner of your message list, which lets you switch between preview and list views.




For those of you who have more vertical space you can also move the preview pane below your message list. You can enable this using the dropdown arrow next to the toggle button:

Horizontal split view

 Vertical Split View

By default there is a 3-second delay in marking a conversation as read after previewing it. If that doesn’t feel natural to you, you can change the timing in the General tab of settings:





If you’d like to remove the new layout, simply return to Gmail Settings and disable "preview pane"