After years of experimenting with it as a Labs feature, Google has added ‘Undo Send’, which will allow people using Gmail to cancel a sent mail if they have second thoughts immediately after sending, as a regular option for web-based Gmail users.
Netizens currently using the Labs version of ‘Undo Send’ will have the setting turned on by default at launch. The feature is turned off by default for those not currently using the Labs version, and can be enabled from the General tab in Gmail settings.
It enables people to set a “cancellation period” of 5, 10, 20 or 30 seconds after sending any email, during which they can call it back. The next time they send an email that they probably shouldn’t have, they’ve got precisely that many seconds to change their mind and hit the undo button at the top of the page to rectify the mistake.
I love the new undo send feature on gmail. I feel like sending random emails all day only to unsend them just because I can
— Laura Davidson (@lovelylaurajd) June 24, 2015
Google now has an “Undo Send” feature on their g-mail. Hillary Clinton is calling this the greatest invention since pants suits.
— Alex Kaseberg (@AlexKaseberg) June 24, 2015
When you send an email with a typo and you haven’t enabled Undo Send http://t.co/Xk0XsOnTYF #SavedByUndoSend pic.twitter.com/aeDUG9Vq7S
— Google Students (@googlestudents) June 24, 2015
Gmail now officially lets you ‘undo send’ those really embarrassing e-mails http://t.co/DzVqNoTE9J
— TIME.com (@TIME) June 23, 2015
Undo Send: For when you really wanted to email David but accidentally selected Dad. #oops#SavedByUndoSendhttps://t.co/beV3G4wNOY
— Inbox by Gmail (@inboxbygmail) June 23, 2015
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