Let's see how to stop a sent email in Gmail before it reaches its recipient. And it is that he email e-mail has been one of the most important means of communication between people and companies for decades, with millions of digital emails being sent and received at all times around the world. So much so, that together with WhatsApp, it is the most direct way to send and receive information or messages. But what happens if we sent an email by mistake? Can we cancel it before it reaches its recipient? In Gmail if possible; Therefore, below we explain a unknown trick that allows you to stop an email after sending it and thus it does not reach its recipient.
How to cancel an already sent Gmail email
Thus, when we write an email and press Send When we believe that everything is fine, everything is correct, the message is sent at that very moment, thus it is not possible to go back to stop your shipment. And it is likely that more than once you have sent an email by mistake to someone you shouldn't have or, simply, have sent an email with some type of error, for which you will have had to send another one explaining the previous mistake with another email, this time yes, without any type of error. Fortunately, is it possible to stop sending the wrong email even after clicking Send. We tell you how.
This is only possible with Gmail, the email service Google. And it does so through a option that we must activate in the settings from our Gmail email account. To activate this function that can save us from trouble on more than one occasion, you just have to follow the following steps:
- The first step is to access your Gmail account through a computer browser.
- Once inside, click on the gear wheel icon located in the upper right corner to access the Setting from Gmail.
- Within Setting look for the option Undo shipment.
- Now check the box Enable option in Undo on send.
- Now you will have to configure the time you want to have to cancel sending an email that has already been sent; in section Shipping cancellation period You will be able to determine the period of time to decide if you want to cancel sending an email or not, between 5 and 30 seconds.
- When you have set the time click on Save Changes so that your new settings are saved.
Once you have configured the option Undo sending you will see that when you send an email, next to the notification of Your message has been sent the option will appear Undo during the time you have determined, that is, between 5 and 30 seconds.
Now you know how to unsend emails once sent in Gmail, Google's email service.
