You will also find a checkbox labeled ' Stay signed in', which is unchecked by default (for your safety).

Gmail actually only provides a single, but powerful option in its sign in form: Gmail Sign in options and the security of your email account

The ' Password' field collects your Gmail account password, which is 'case-sensitive' (in other words, a letter in uppercase is considered to be a different character than the exact same letter in lowercase).

But if you sign in to your Gmail account, or if you are using an ' email address generally, you can enter just your user name without the ' - and Google will assume that it is a Gmail address.

Tip: Note that this is the sign in form that logs you into your Google account, not just Gmail this means that you may also enter other (non Gmail) email addresses as user name.

The ' Username' text field collects your email address.

Here's a screenshot of the Gmail sign in form:.

The Gmail sign in screen is what you see when either you login to your email account for the first time on a given computer, or after Google has automatically signed out of your account (this is a security feature that guarantees that even if someone finds a computer where you remained logged in, they will sooner or later have to enter your account password.

Stay signed in to gmail