- It is not unusual to click on the send button in Gmail, then realize you want to recall the message.
- Gmail offers a feature called “Gmail Undo Send” which allows you to undo your send email action within 30 seconds.
- With the recently updated Gmail App, now you can use Undo Send on your mobile device too
- I show you how to setup undo send to recall a message within 30 seconds AND a way around to undo send Gmail after 30 seconds.
Go to Gmail Setting
- Once you're logged in, click on the Settings icon on the top-right corner of the page.
- Then click on the 'Settings' option from the drop-down list of items.
Enable 'Undo Send'
- Enable undo send by checking the box if it's not. then choose the cancellation period from 5, 10, 20, or 30 seconds.
- Side note: The way 'Undo send' works is not by sending the message to your recipient then withdrawing it. No, it basically delays the sending of the message.
- After choosing the cancellation period, scroll down, and click save.
Undoing Send
- Now when you compose and send a new message, you are able to undo the send action before the seconds are chosen in the previous step expire.
- So now when you get a second thought about that email you were about to send, you can quickly stop it from going even after clicking the send button.
How about more than 30 seconds?
- Sometimes you're sending something confidential and maybe would want your recipient to access it for hours or days after which they shouldn't.
- There is no way to do this directly in Gmail however, we can still achieve this with Google Docs.
Type message in Google Docs
- Use Google Docs to type your message instead of typing it directly in the compose form.
- Remember you can as well use Google sheet, slides, whatever suits your purpose.
Go to 'Share'
- Go to 'File' then click on 'Share' option.
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