TORONTO—It might be called “send regret”—that panic that sets in after firing off an email or text that you suddenly realize was inappropriate, addressed to the wrong person, or just plain wrong.
Google is trying to save Gmail users from their own misguided missives by granting them a window of sober second thought.
Gmail users can now add the “undo send” feature to their accounts and give themselves up to 30 seconds to recall an ill-conceived email.
“‘Undo’ has saved my bacon professionally and personally more than once,” Google Canada spokesman Aaron Brindle enthused Wednesday, June 24.
Google is trying to save Gmail users from their own misguided missives by granting them a window of sober second thought.
