‘Gmail is here to stay’: Google clarifies after fake note claims app’s ‘shutting down’

New Delhi: Clarifying the rumours that created havoc among users that Google is shutting down Gmail, the tech giant on Friday took to social media platform X to announce that Gmail is not going anywhere and “is here to stay”.

There was a viral post on X recently that caused concern among netizens.

The post claimed that Gmail was going to be shut down. It included a screenshot of an email from Google titled ‘Google is sunsetting Gmail’, which quickly spread across the internet. This caused panic as people feared that Gmail might cease to exist entirely.