Today, I learnt Google had added this ‘Undo’ feature to enable users rollback messages that have been sent.
My colleague and I, at work, have tested the feature to see how it works—and its limits [see screenshots below]:
How it works:
You compose a message, send it…then click ‘Undo’. Simple.
One thing to note, however, is the time gap available before the message is finally sent. We timed it to see if the message will just keeping hanging while prompting you to undo: we saw that after 20 seconds, the system will proceed to send.
The use cases I see it being of significance would be when you mistakenly click ‘Send’, and when you forgot to include something in your message.
I’m sure lots of people will find this feature very useful.
