Marketing emails that should appear in the Promotions tab are flooding people’s Primary inboxes.<\/b>
\nGoogle\u2019s email filtering on Gmail appears to be on the fritz today, as messages that would normally be routed to the Promotions or Social tabs are appearing in the Primary inbox.
Google didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment. However, users on social media are complaining about this \u201cextremely annoying\u201d glitch.
\u00ab\u00a0The @gmail spam filter broke this morning for me, absolute e-mail armageddon\u00a0\u00bb, one X user wrote. \u00ab\u00a0Woke up to @gmail filters not working right and an overloaded inbox. Just deleting like crazy\u00a0\u00bb, added another.
The support team handling tweets directed at the Gmail X account doesn\u2019t appear to understand what\u2019s happening. People who complained in the last few hours about Gmail filtering being broken or spam detection \u201cacting a bit weird\u201d are being directed to a support page or encouraged to DM the account with details.
On my personal account, LinkedIn notification emails are showing up in the Primary inbox, as are promotional emails from retailers and select newsletters that I\u2019d relegated to Promotions.
The tabbed inbox option on Gmail has been around since 2013 and lets you wall off the influx of marketing emails in their own inbox so important messages don\u2019t get lost. If you’re seeing emails in the wrong tab, you can drag them to the correct one and tell Gmail to send all further messages from that email there, too. Ideally, Google will roll out a fix soon, so you don’t have to spend your Saturday dragging and dropping.<\/p>\n