Today is a great day for all Americans.
According to Google App Updates, Gmail is adding an “Undo Send” feature that allows you to pull the plug on that highly questionable email for up to 30 seconds. I can’t describe how big this is. I second guess nearly every important email I send wondering whether it sounds kind of dick-ish, or if it’s just straight passive aggressive. The update is slated to be launched within the next two weeks.
Per Google App Updates, 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.
Finally, the modern worker is granted a mulligan. Forgot the attachment? Undo Send. Came across kind of bitchy? Undo Send. Included a risqué GIF and didn’t realize your boss’s boss was also on the thread? Undo Send. Just remember, you have 30 seconds..
[via Google App Updates]
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I’m looking at you outlook
Here’s how to set up a delay for your sends: https://support.office.com/en-in/article/Delay-or-schedule-sending-e-mail-messages-026af69f-c287-490a-a72f-6c65793744ba#bm2
Gmail used to have this feature years ago, but then they dropped the “Labs” feature, so only people who had already opted into the undo button could use it. Glad that they’re adding it back in.
That allows you to delay or schedule an email, this is allowing you to cancel a sent message.
It’s more or less the same principle, though. Gmail isn’t allowing you to “cancel a sent message” so much as it is delaying your outbox from beginning delivery. Gmail has the upper hand in that it gives you an actual undo button, but you can just as easily hop over to your outbox in Outlook and pull the message that’s being delayed.
You’ve been able to recall messages on outlook since at least the 2008 edition