Google’s Gmail app is installed by default on virtually all Android smartphones (as well as tablets). It is, therefore, only natural that this versatile and free app has become synonymous with email, aka email.
Among its tricks and hidden functions is an option with the potential to avoid inadvertent sending of email. In other words, it is a safeguard that, in the daily work, can make all the difference for those who send emails via smartphone.
Then we share in a simple and fast way how you can activate this useful function to Gmail.
“Do you want to send this message?” – the hidden function in Google’s Gmail
- Open the Gmail application on Android tablet or smartphone
First we have to open the Google application on their Android devices. Then, just locate the Options menu, also known as the hamburger menu, identified by the three horizontal lines or bars in the upper left corner. sidebar that will appear after tapping the Options menu. When going down, the penultimate menu will be identified as Settings (it appears as the last one in Figure 1 when the image has been cropped).
Figure 2: location of General Settings and “Confirm before sending” option.
- After tapping on Settings the user will see the option General settings (tap there)
Scroll to the end of the menu now displayed until you find the option Confirm before sending
- Then the user can activate the function, as well as other similar confirmation options.
The next step is simple. Once in the Gmail app Settings for Android, just tap on General Settings (as shown in Figure 1). There the user will also see the other email accounts that he may have associated.
Then mine will be presented with several confirmation options before sending. By the way, in addition to the confirmation before sending it is possible to activate the option to confirm before archiving and / or to confirm before deleting an email.
Figure 3: operation of the Confirm before Sending option
- After clicking on the Send icon, the message visible in Figure 3 will be displayed )
Finally, after activate the option “Confirm before sending”, the following verification message will appear in the form of a “pop up” card. The user will thus have one last opportunity to verify the content of the email and its intention to send it.
This option does not invalidate, for example, the cancellation of the sending of an email within the period provided for by the Gmail. Either way, it’s a simple trick, a hidden option that can prove particularly useful in a work context.
In summary, we hope that this simple function will solve some inadvertent sendings by Gmail.
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- Findsthe Optionsmenu in the upper left corner (3 horizontal bars)

Tap the Options menu, then scroll down to Settings
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