Gmail Is Killing POP and Gmailify Access. Here’s What It Means for You

Google giveth, and Google taketh away. Two long-standing features are being removed from Gmail, and they both relate to how you access messages from other, non-Google email accounts through the Gmail interface.

The features we're talking about are Gmailify and POP access, and if you rely on them to consolidate multiple email accounts into your Gmail inbox, you're going to have to find a different approach. While Google hasn't given any reasons for the changes, it's likely that it wants to simplify Gmail, as well as encouraging users to spend more time checking their Google inbox rather than any others.

According to Google, these features will be closed to new users from the first quarter of 2026. For existing users, the functionality will remain until “later in 2026.”

Here's what you need to know, and what you can do next.

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