Earlier this month, Google's Spring Cleaning killed off some beloved products, but none with more outrage from users than Inbox. The unique email app technically closed up shop on April 2nd, but work around kept it working for quite a while after. Now, it seems that the Inbox by Gmail app is officially dead.
In a last-ditch the effort to keep the beloved email app alive, many Inbox users leveraged the trick of installing an older version of the app on their device. Since it hadn't added the "move to Gmail" transition screen yet, the app still worked after the April 2nd closing.
Now, though, the app is officially not working any longer. As first pointed out by Android Police, fresh installs of older app versions, such as 1.77, no longer let users sign in. If your app automatically updated or you swapped out your phone, there's no longer any way to get the Inbox app working on Android.
Looking at some Reddit threads, it seems that users on these older versions are still having success in using the app but to varying degrees. Some say there are no issues at all, but others report delayed or missing notifications, as well as slower syncing. At this point, it's just a matter of time before even those users have to say goodbye.
After Google announced that Inbox by Gmail was shutting off on April 2, in the older Android versions of the app, as well as in the iOS app, remained unaffected. We can now confirm that the iOS app has stopped working as well, days after the shutdown.
This means that Inbox by Gmail is finally receding behind the mountains, and this time there might be no workaround for it to rise back up from the shadows.
