Google has been working on the ‘Undo Send’ feature in Gmail for quite some years now, a feature that enables you to take retrieve a sent email within seconds if you sent it to the wrong recipient or you feel that something was wrong in it and you need to correct before you send.
For the past six years, Google had this feature in the public beta but many never knew that it existed. This week, in a blogpost, Google that it was making the feature an official setting. For users who already had the Undo Send beta enabled, the feature will remain on, and those who don’t can turn it on via the General tab under Settings.
When undo send launched in 2009, it would delay sending your emails for five seconds but now, users can choose if they want to hold their mail for 5, 10, 20 or 30 seconds.
Unfortunately, Undo Send is currently not available on mobile but Google has promised to make this available in the future though the time was not made known.
If you are yet to turn this feature on, you might want to turn it on and save yourself any embarrassing statements which you could have corrected.