Google says Undo Send - a life-saver for those sloppy enough to enter the wrong address or let a Freudian slip into an email - is to become a formal feature on Gmail after being hidden away in the Labs menu for years.
The feature, which allows people to cancel an email up to 30 seconds after pressing "send", will be moved to the General Settings menu within the next two weeks.
Sending emails by mistake recently landed the Bank of England in hot water, when it sent details of a secret taskforce investigating the impact of a British EU exit to a journalist at the Guardian.
Gmail's Undo Send doesn't actually undo sending, so much as delay it until the cancellation period has elapsed, so an unsent email never arrives in the recipient's inbox.
