We’ve been using this Gmail feature for a long time now, but it is nice to see it off Google labs, a testing platform.
Google has installed an “undo send” function as a formal setting on its email service.
That means no more moments of utter embarrassment when you realise you’ve accidentally sent a message to someone you weren’t supposed to or sent one with a glaring error in it.
The feature has been available in Google Labs, a testing platform, for a while now and was recently introduced in the new Google Inbox app, the company explained in a blog post on Monday.
But after feedback from customers – some of whom appear to have been sending holiday plans to their bosses and kinky messages to their dads instead of to their spouses (see video below) – the feature has also been rolled out on Gmail for the web.