This could save an awful lot of drama.
Sending an e-mail and instantly regretting it isn’t as bad as doing so with a text message, mainly down to the fact that not many people sit down and compose drunken e-mails to their ex-girlfriends at 3am after a feed of pints.
Still, there are circumstances in which you may have sent an e-mail and soon wished you hadn’t and Google have introduced a setting that will help Gmail users avoid such a predicament.
The simple ‘Undo Send’ option has been a feature of Google Labs – where Google test out new features – since 2009, but it’ll now be available to activate for all users in the General ‘tab’ of the settings menu in Gmail and become an automatic feature for those who had been using it via Google Labs.
Because the maximum amount of time given to cancel the mail is 30 seconds, you’ll need to act very fast to cancel an email after you’ve pressed ‘send’.
The dread that normally takes hold immediately after sending the message usually doesn’t last much longer than half a minute, however, so if you can handle that, you can be pretty sure that you did actually want to send it in the first place.
Until you get the notification that a reply has come in of course…
Hat-tip to Business Insider
