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Very nice! Thank you.

For those who also want to try it in the web interface: Gear->See All Settings->General->Button Labels

Don't forget to scroll all the way to the bottom and save.

Oh, FFS. Would it be that hard for them to have an option of displaying both icons and text?

In fact, I think that's how it worked before.

I was about to make this exact comment almost verbatim.

Change to text, lose weird icons, and gain peace of mind.

icons replaced text about 8-10 years ago for reasons:

- ui consistency across languages and devices

- some languages are longer than others. you can’t just translate the text, this might break the layout. more common at smaller companies without testing resources to cover all the languages available

- mobile has less screen space. going icon only might be necessary. this also goes back to the first point: icon only is easier if it’s icon only everywhere

i’m not saying it’s better. i prefer text

I had to do this because for my (non-US) brain the "Spam" and "Delete" icons were too similar and I would click the wrong one.

As GMail learns from what you mark as spam, that had bad consequences for future emails.