Retracting mail before being sent

By glassheart, 27 September, 2022

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iOS and iPadOS

Hey guys, We've got a quick question.

Let's say we've sent an e-mail to someone, but then we decide on the second thought, we don't want that message to be sent.

We've been told in iOS 16, there's a way if we change our minds, we can cause the message not to be sent within a certain timeframe.

We're just trying to figure out with Voiceover how that is done.

Thanks for the help.

They/Them please.

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By Earle on Monday, October 24, 2022 - 11:34

The option to unsend an email message is at the bottom of the screen after you hit the send button. It doesn’t stay there very long though. So you have to be pretty quick at reaching it. I’m not sure exactly how long it stays, but it isn’t very long.

By glassheart on Monday, October 24, 2022 - 11:34

Thank you for the help. With all due respect, we prefer you all instead of you. Please address us in 2nd person plurrel. Thanks for the understanding. And again, thank you as well for the help. No need for an apology. You had know way of knowing. It's all good.

By wiljames on Monday, October 24, 2022 - 11:34

You can change this to 30 seconds by going to settings > mail > undo send delay. After you set it to your preferred length of time, you can find the button to undo your send at the bottom of the screen in the Mail app. You just double tap it and you are back in the message you wanted to unsend.

Hope that helps.

By Andy Lane on Monday, October 24, 2022 - 11:34

Interesting info on the mail recall length being customisable, thanks very much. I know I’m potentially stepping close to an edge I don’t understand but I genuinely can’t not ask, If you all don’t want to or can’t answer for whatever reason I completely understand but I just can’t work out an circumstance where addressing a single person is best done with a plural. My query is genuine and curious. I’d like to know if you all feel comfortable sharing. I’m perfectly okay with flipping female and male and fully understand under what circumstances thats appropriate. If I get it wrong by someone’s voice and am corrected I’ll change to the correction without question but I’ve been scratching my head for a good 15 minutes and just can’t work this one out. Would you mind helping me understand? Again if its too personal, please ignore and move on but I have to ask.

By Lily Rose on Monday, October 24, 2022 - 11:34

I think it stays for 15 seconds. Awfully short, if you ask me. In Gmail, when ever you send a message, or delete something, save or discard a draft, there's a button that say Sent or Discarded or whatever and it stays there until you click on it or you close the app. That's way better. Wow, I'm glad they added that, and since I don't use gmail I'm pretty sure I saw this in Mail settings on my phone...

By Lily Rose on Monday, October 24, 2022 - 11:34

It's 10 seconds by default, but you can make it up to 30 seconds or turn it off entirely. Settings > Mail, the last option is Undo Send delay. Open that. The options are off, 10 seconds, 20 seconds, and 30 seconds. Man, I'm glad you can change it, because at one point (circa IOS 9) VO might've frozen for that entire time of ten seconds, and although this undo send wasn't a thing back then, thank you to Apple for making it customizable!

By Igna Triay on Monday, October 24, 2022 - 11:34

So i'm guessing if you change the undo send to off, does the button stay there indefinitely until ppressed or you close the app? I agree, 10 seconds is kinda, short.

By Lily Rose on Monday, October 24, 2022 - 11:34

I'm guessing it means no undo send delay, because there would probably be an indefinitely button if it was there.

By wiljames on Monday, October 24, 2022 - 11:34

According to a search I just performed, you can long press Send once you have composed the message. Also, a triple tap with one finger will result in the same prompt.

By Tyler on Monday, October 24, 2022 - 11:34

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

In the macOS Ventura beta, there is a menu button immediately to the right of the send button in the Mail toolbar which allows you to schedule emails similarly to how it's done on iOS.

By glassheart on Monday, October 24, 2022 - 11:34

Andy,

I don't want to go into much detail about this, but I can try answering your question to the best of my ability. Applevis isn't however the place for this discussion.

If you wanna hit me up outside this forum, I'll talk to you briefly about it.

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