• by Ray Schultz , June 5, 2018

Gmail users may have waited for the new redesign. But they won’t have much time to adopt it.

Google has set July as the for general availability (GA) of the overhauled email service. Anyone who hasn’t moved to it by then will have eight weeks to do so or opt out.

After that, they will be automatically converted. Then they will have another four weeks to opt out, allowing for a total of 12 weeks to deal with the switch, according to a blog post published by Gmail on Monday. 

“Approximately 12 weeks after the GA announcement in July, any users who’ve opted out of the new Gmail will be automatically migrated to the new experience, with no option to opt out,” the post says. “Users who’ve already transitioned to the new Gmail will lose the ability to opt out.

According to Gmail, users can transition immediately or take their time — a limited time. They can wait four weeks to opt in, and have a little more time than that to opt out.

“This is the default setting,” Gmail states. “During this four-week period, users will not have the option to opt out to the new Gmail.”

TechCrunch notes that the old Gmail will no longer be available, that the transition schedule is complicated and that Gmail has not set an exact date, although it will probably sooner than later.

The new design comes with features such as snooze, smart reply, offline support and Confidential Email, the so-called self-destruct mechanism for emails.  Gmail has also has unveiled Smart Compose, a function that will help users write emails.