How To Set Time To Send Mail In Gmail

Even months afterwards it first arrived, Gmail'southward schedule send tool is hands 1 of Google's best email features. This tool keeps you from beingness the person who sends emails over the weekend, or in the center of the night, if y'all're sending a message to a colleague in another fourth dimension zone -- equally we frequently practise in our new work-from-home lives. If yous desire your email to hit at just the right fourth dimension, or desire to jot downwards your thoughts for a future task before y'all forget, this is the tool for y'all.

Schedule Send lets you pick the exact day and fourth dimension you lot desire your electronic mail to make it. Information technology's very similar to Boomerang, if yous've used that browser extension, except that it's built right into Gmail, which makes it a million times more convenient. You tin schedule emails upward to 49 years in advance (a smashing fashion to wish someone happy altogether every twelvemonth).

Scheduling Gmail messages works from your personal and corporate accounts, and from both your telephone and your desktop. Look for the pointer by the send button in the browser or the stacked three dots in the app.

Here'southward how to go started.

From Gmail in your browser

schedule-send — Select Schedule send from the dropdown arrow.
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When you're done composing your e-mail and you're ready to schedule it:

i. Locate the drop-down arrow near the transport push.

2. Click the pointer and so click Schedule send.

3. A menu will appear that lets yous choose the appointment and fourth dimension yous would like the e-mail to be sent.

4. Select the fourth dimension and click Schedule send. A bulletin box volition announced in the lesser left corner that says "Send scheduled for…" where y'all can hit disengage if you've made a mistake or view the message.

From the Gmail app on your phone or tablet

schedule-time — Schedule a appointment and fourth dimension to transport an email.
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Stacked three dots — From your mobile phone, locate the 3 stacked dots.
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1. If you're using the Gmail app to ship an email, locate the stacked 3 dots in the upper-right-paw side.

2. Tap the dots and select Schedule transport.

3. From in that location, a carte will appear and y'all can add the date and time y'all want it to send.

4. Click Schedule send. A message box will appear in the bottom-left corner that says "Send scheduled for…" Y'all tin can disengage the action or view your message.

What if I need to update or delete the electronic mail?

If you make up one's mind yous don't want to send the electronic mail later on all, you tin still delete information technology every bit long every bit you get to it before the scheduled fourth dimension.

Simply click on Scheduled on the main card, choose the email you would like to delete, and select Cancel ship.

If you lot need to update the time or date that the email is scheduled to send, abolish the email. A draft will announced where you lot can edit the content of the email and repeat the steps listed above.

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