This time the scythe is coming for one of the company’s oldest features—Gmail’s basic HTML view. In January 2024, that simple interface heads for the great beyond.

Google is sunsetting Gmail's basic HMTL view, which allows users to look at their emails in a bare-bones state, starting January 2024.

Google will be discontinuing Gmail's basic HTML view starting from January 2024. This feature, which is over 10 years old, allows users to access their emails in a simplified format.

The Basic HTML view lacks several features, such as the chat, spell checker, filters, and rich formatting, to name a few, among the new AI features.