
Use Microsoft Edgeīut Chrome is not your only option since you can use Chromium-based Microsoft Edge to do the same thing, as well. Make sure that notifications are allowed in Windows System settings. Enable notifications for all emails or just for important emails. To get notifications, open Gmail > Settings > See all settings and, under General look for Desktop notifications. Then open App Management ( copy-paste chrome://apps/ in the Address bar), right-click on Gmail, and select Remove from Chrome. If you want to remove Gmail PWA, delete shortcuts and unpin Gmail from the taskbar. Click App info and make sure that Gmail is allowed to send notifications.

Open Gmail from the taskbar and click on the 3-dots menu.If you don’t see this option on Windows 11, click Show more options at the bottom. Right-click on the newly-created Gmail shortcut and choose Pin to taskbar.You should see the shortcut on your desktop.


To add Google Gmail to a Windows 10/Windows 11 taskbar, you’ll need to create a shortcut first and then pin it to the taskbar. Everything you need to know is below so make sure to check the instructions we provided.

You can add Gmail to your taskbar on Windows 10 or Windows 11 by creating a shortcut/installing PWA with either Chrome or Microsoft Edge.
