For evaluating and exploring all major shortcomings, as well as areas to be worked on before launching a feature or software globally, most companies go for a beta launch. Same goes for Google.

Team Gmail took to Twitter yesterday to invite users of its iOS app to test a new functionality as a part of a beta program. The feature in question is third-party email support.

Quite clearly, with this new feature, Gmail is targeting to compete with Apple’s default Mail app, which already offers third-party email support. It’s worth mentioning that Gmail on Android already allows users to add non-Google accounts.

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All it takes to join the beta program is that one should already be a user of the official Gmail iOS app, have a non-Google email account, and should be using a device running iOS 10 or later.

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Those eligible can fill a form (here) to sign up, and be a part of the test.

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The beta program is open to iPhone, iPad and iPod users and, currently supports email services like Yahoo, Yandex, Mail.ru, Outlook, Hotmail, and Live. So if you wish to be a part, sign-up to see how the feature actually works.

As is the norm, if everything goes fine during the beta test, the functionality should be made available to all iOS users shortly thereafter.

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