Gmail Undo Send

• It is not unusual to click on 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 message within 30 seconds AND a way around to undo send gmail after 30 seconds (works with Google Workspace subscription too)

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1. 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 'Settings' option from the drop-down list of items.

2. Enable 'Undo Send'

• Enable undo send by checking the box if it's not. then choose 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 cancellation period, scroll down and click save.

3. Undoing Send

• Now when you compose and send a new message, you are able to undo the send action before the seconds chosen in 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 send button.

4. 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.

5. Type message in Google Docs

• Use Google Docs to type your message instead of typing it directly in the compose form.

• Remember your can as well use Google sheet, slides, whatever suites your purpose.

6. Go to 'Share'

• Go to 'File' then click on 'Share' option.

7. Click on 'Advanced'

• Next, click on 'Advanced' link at the bottom of the popup window.

8. Click on clock icon

• To set document expiration time, click on the clock icon.

9. Set expiration period

• You choose from predefined dates, or choose a cutom date from a calendar.

• After you've set your preferred time of expiration click 'Save' button.

10. Click on 'Drive' icon

• Now compose new email then click 'Drive' icon to include the document you just created in previous steps.

11. Insert file

• Choose the file then click insert.

12. Send message

• Now your email is ready to be sent.

• So what happens when you send this message is that your recipient will be able to access and read the document with any document.

• But when the set time expires, they will not have access to the document anymore.

That is all.

• So that is all to it. It's not a straight forward way of doing it however, it's a way around recalling your message even after 30 seconds.

• I hope you found this helpful, for questions and comments, don't hesitate to leave them below and I will be more than happy to respond.

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