Gmail on Android is making the experience of replying to emails akin to replying to text messages. The company has announced a new “quick reply” experience.

Earlier, there were only options to Reply, Reply all or Forward a message when in the conversation view of an email on your Gmail app. On choosing one of those options, you’d be directed to a full-screen compose view to send your reply.

Now you can reply to emails directly from the bottom of the conversation, without opening a new screen, making it “easier to reference the email you’re replying to”.

The company said: “We know this new option is best for quick, lightweight responses, so for longer, more formal responses, you can simply expand the text box to access more formatting options.” The new quick reply experience is live now on personal Google accounts. It’s coming to iOS “later this year”, Google says.

The new feature will be visible to all Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts. Google announced that Workspace customers will get it in the next two weeks, while Google accounts and Workspace Individual subscribers already benefit from the new quick reply experience.