How to Unsend a Sent Email in Gmail


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If you’re using Gmail, it’s clear that you know how to send an email, but if you accidentally send an email to the wrong person, or you spotted a wrong message or typo error in the mail & now you want to unsend or undo this embarrassing moment, you can do it quickly by undoing the email you sent, This feature can come in handy if you unintentionally sent a wrong email but you have to do it immediately after sending the email. This article will show you how to unsend a sent email in Gmail.

Setting you need to do before using this Gmail feature

You can unsend an email immediately after sending an email, you will get up to 30 seconds after you hit the send button.

To do so open Gmail and click the setting icon on the top right, next select all settings.
Under the general settings tab, you’ll find the undo send option, where you can select a cancellation period of 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 20 seconds, or 30 seconds.

 

 

setting on gmail to unsend email

this means you can unsend an email up to 30 seconds after you hit the send button scroll down and click on Save Changes.

 

how to undo sent email on gmail

After writing an email and clicking on Send, instead of the mail getting delivered instantly, you’ll get a few seconds to recall that mail – you’ll now see an undo button on the bottom left of the screen, To recall an email that has already been sent, click the undo button.

Note that the undo button will stay there for the duration you set in the “send cancellation period” in the setting.  

That’s it: If you frequently worry about typos error in your emails, Now you can enable this feature.

See also: How to read deleted WhatsApp messages on a smartphone

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