How to use Gmail’s package-tracking feature this holiday season [Video]

The holiday season, for many, is more of a shopping season – and with lots of online shopping comes the need to track a lot of packages. Google, however, is making keeping track of all those packages a little easier, through an update to one of Gmail’s best features.

The Gmail package-tracking feature was first launched in 2022, allowing users to tap on an email to get a summary of a package’s status, including when it was shipped and when it’s expected to arrive. For this holiday season, however, the feature is getting a bit of an update to make it even more useful. It’s easy to make use of too, though you will have to enable it.

Enabling it is pretty easy if you have a package on the way. All you have to do is open up an email related to a package, and tap the “Allow” button under the prompt notifying you that you can track your …