Disable Gmail Inbox Tabs

If you're a Gmail user, your going to notice that recent changes to the user interface, that's right, there are several tabs now. If you've not seen it, you will soon. Google has decided to roll out the Inbox tabs to all Gmail users.

Gmail's welcome message for Inbox tabs
I've been a Gmail user since it's early days, and this tabs thingy really makes me uncomfortable, I believe there are others out there that has the same feeling as I am. Fortunately, as of today, there is still a way to disable the tabs. And I'll shows you how to do it.


Right after you log in to Gmail, you will be introduce to to the new Inbox interface, where you will see 3 default tabs: Primary, Social & Promotions.

The new Inbox tabs

You emails will be parked under different tabs, this solely depend on what Google think they should be. (and there's an ads pretending to be an email)

Promotions tabs

Moving email between tabs
You can manually move messages between tabs and make them stays on that tabs for future incoming emails. Or you could just 'star' an email to make it appear on the Primary tabs.





All that is good if you want to use tabs to organize your inbox; For me, the existing 'labels' feature are more than enough organize my emails, so I'm going to disable Inbox tabs.

To do this, navigate to the Settings icon on the top right corner and select Configure inbox.

Configure inbox tabs menu

You will be prompted with a dialogue box where you can then select which tabs you wants to enable or disable by checking or un-checking.
Selection of tabs to enable / disable
So go ahead and un-check like crazy. Apparently you can't un-check the Primary tab, because that's where all emails are going to stay when all tabs are gone.
Un-check Social and Promotions to disable those 2 tabs
Hit Save button and you'll be notify that Inbox tabs have been switched off.


Cool, now I get back the old Inbox interface.

Inbox without tabs

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