If that has also happened to you you have sent a email to a wrong contact, don’t worry. Gmail has a shortcut within its platform that allows you to solve the error and prevent the sender from reading that message that does not belong to him.
How to delete a sent mail before they read it?
To do this, you must enter your Gmail account so that the settings you make are saved correctly for your next shipments. Here are the steps you need to follow:
1. Go to the Settings section of your Gmail account in the upper right corner and click “See all settings”.
2. It will take you to the general settingswhere you will have to locate the option “Undo the sending”.
3. In said option, the cancellation period is probably set to 5 seconds by default. however you you can extend it up to a maximum of 30 seconds. Don’t forget to select “save changes” and that’s it.
Keep in mind that this type of configuration can be done from a laptop or computer. This way, when you want to undo an email, it works for you on both a computer and a cell phone.
How to retrieve an email using “Undo Send”?
If you have already made the configuration indicated above, now you will have a short period of time, according to your choice, to cancel the sending of said email. Immediately following sending a message, you can undo the action:
1. In the lower left corneryou’ll see a “Message Sent” notification and the options to “Undo” or “View Message.”
2. Click Undo.
With the 30 seconds of estimated time at mostit will be more than enough to be able to cancel any emails you have sent by mistake, so keep an eye out for this type of mistake.
