Locate the "Load Basic HTML (for slow connections)" link at the bottom of the Gmail "Loading" page. Click the link to switch to Basic HTML view form Standard HTML view.

Google is sunsetting Gmail's basic HMTL view, which allows users to look at their emails in a bare-bones state, starting January 2024.

Google has quietly announced that it will pull the plug on the basic HTML version of Gmail starting in 2024. We’re writing to let you know that the Gmail Basic HTML view for desktop web and ...

This time the scythe is coming for one of the company’s oldest features—Gmail’s basic HTML view. In January 2024, that simple interface heads for the great beyond.

The Basic HTML function was helpful for people dealing with a slow internet connection but wanted to read their email.