After Six Years, GMail Finally Takes ‘UnSend’ Out Of Beta

June 23, 2015

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After a long, long time in Beta testing, Google has finally made Unsend a feature that everyone can use, here’s how to turn it on:

So how do you enable Gmail’s undo feature? Go to the little cog icon in the upper righthand corner and select “Settings.” About a third of the way down the page you’ll see the “Undo Send” section. You can choose between 5, 10, 20 and 30 second windows of unsendability. Make sure you hit “Save Changes” at the bottom and you’re all set.

A feature like this would seem to be useful for social media as well.

4 responses to “After Six Years, GMail Finally Takes ‘UnSend’ Out Of Beta”

michael reynolds

June 23, 2015 at 1:44 pm

I’m still waiting on the conversational equivalent. I want an “un-speak” function for the moment when you realize you’ve inadvertently said something to your wife that will result in hours and hours of painful, tedious conversation, the entire thrust of which is that you’re a thoughtless aszhole.

Yeah, I’d pay good money for that app. I’d probably still have hair if I’d had that app twenty years ago.
Doug Mataconis

June 23, 2015 at 1:55 pm

@michael reynolds:

The person who invents that will be the world’s first trillionaire
Hal_10000

June 23, 2015 at 10:41 pm

Better version: the Gmail unsend feature automatically raises the time interval in proportion to your blood alcohol level.
Timothy Watson

June 24, 2015 at 6:45 am

@Hal_10000:

A couple years ago, they had a beta app where you would have to answer three questions of simple difficulty (math, language, etc.) before you could send an e-mail.