Do you ever wish that there was an undo button for email? Gmail has offered this experimental feature for some time now. Six years, in fact. But now it’s officially a regular part of Gmail.
No more accidentally sending embarrassing emails… Just click undo and delete all those what the fudges and holy shoots. Problem solved!
So how do you enable Gmail’s undo feature? Go to the little cog icon in the upper righthand corner and select “Settings.” About a third of the way down the page you’ll see the “Undo Send” section. You can choose between 5, 10, 20 and 30 second windows of unsendability. Make sure you hit “Save Changes” at the bottom and you’re all set.
Then, the next time you hit send on an email that you probably shouldn’t have, you’ve got precisely that many seconds to change your mind and hit the undo button at the top of the page. Technology can’t solve all your problems but it has certainly stepped up it’s game with the addition of this feature.
-Matt@1063RL
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