Can I influence placement in the Focused Inbox?

You can influence Focused Inbox placement through practices that build engagement and relevance with individual recipients.

Drive engagement by sending content recipients want to read and interact with. Opens, clicks, and especially replies signal importance to the algorithm.

Send from recognizable addresses that recipients associate with valuable content. Consistent sender names and addresses build recognition.

Personalize meaningfully. Messages that feel individually relevant are more likely to be treated as important than generic broadcasts.

Ask recipients to move you to Focused if they want to see your messages. This direct training has strong impact on the model.

Maintain consistent sending. Erratic patterns with long gaps followed by sudden volumes look less like important correspondence.

Focused placement follows value. Be genuinely important to recipients, and the algorithm will recognize it.