Every so often, Google will add a clever, exciting new feature to one of its apps or services that we wonder how we ever lived without. Google introduced a feature so essential that it should have been there from the beginning.
In this new feature, Google made it so that phone numbers, physical addresses, and email addresses will automatically be converted into interactive hyperlinks in Gmail and Inbox on iOS, Android, and the web. The new clickable link feature will make life easy for someone in the delivery industry.
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“Clicking an address link will take the user to Google Maps,” Google explains in a blog post. “Clicking an email address will compose a new email, using the user’s default email client. Finally, when using a mobile device, clicking a phone number will start a call request using the default phone app.”
Google began beta-testing Gmail in 2004 — over a decade ago. The fact that we’re just now getting hyperlinked numbers and addresses in September 2017 is baffling, but I guess this is one of those cases of better late than never. Regardless, if it means less copy-and-pasting to send an email or look up an address.