Firing off an email that you wish you could take back is probably as universal an occurrence as forgetting to charge your phone or forgetting a password — it happens to everyone.
Well, now Google is making it official.
After years of being a “popular feature” in Gmail Labs, the company announced that its “Undo Send” option will become a formal option on Gmail on the web.
You must enable your Undo Send in the general tab in Gmail settings, and can customize how long of a grace period you’d like to give yourself, up to 30 seconds, to “undo send” that email you meant for your buddy that you accidentally sent to your mom.
The button isn’t magic, so there is a tradeoff. Gmail delays sending your emails for just a few seconds, in case you’d like to stop the message from leaving your outbox. Just after you hit “send,” an option appears at the top of the email asking you if you want to undo the action. You can modify your “cancellation period” to allow between 5 and 30 seconds of lag time. Those who are already using the Labs version of the service will have it automatically turned on. For everyone else, the option should appear in your settings over the next two weeks.
If you really do desire rapid-fire responses, it’s going to slow your roll just a little. But patience is rewarded; that 30 second wait time could be the difference between an embarrassing follow-up apology and a professional-sounding dispatch.
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