With the new reserved mode of Gmail, you can send messages with an expiration date or revoke the recipient's access to the email sent at any time. This mode allows you to help users protect emails with sensitive content, which then becomes confidential and private, without the possibility for those who receive them to forward, copy, print and download.
Note that the confidential mode prevents recipients from sharing, even accidentally, an email, but does not prevent recipients from taking screenshots or photos of messages.
Using specific programs or simple screen photos it is therefore possible to copy or download messages sent in confidential mode.
Despite this limit, it is still an excellent safety function that you need to know.
We have already talked about the reserved mode in the guide how to send protected emails in Gmail with expiration and password .
Now let's see how you send messages protected with the Gmail app on Android and iPhone, available only now with the latest update.
Open Gmail, press to write a new message and then tap the button at the top right.
Select Confidential Mode to bring up all protection options.
You can then set an expiration date and passcode or paswsord to open the message.
The expiry date can be one day, one week, one month, three months, 5 years.
The passcode can be standard or SMS Passcode.
In the first case, if the message is sent to recipients with a Gmail address, there will be no password, which will instead be entered if the recipients do not use Gmail.
In the second case, the password is sent via SMS, thus also entering their phone number.
You can also prevent recipients from opening an email before the expiration date .
To do this, after sending the message, open it from the list of sent, scroll down and press the key that removes access.
This is equivalent to destroying the sent message.
Recipients of confidential emails receive in clear text the link to access and not the content that will be available with passcode or without depending on the choices made.
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Note that the confidential mode prevents recipients from sharing, even accidentally, an email, but does not prevent recipients from taking screenshots or photos of messages.
Using specific programs or simple screen photos it is therefore possible to copy or download messages sent in confidential mode.
Despite this limit, it is still an excellent safety function that you need to know.
We have already talked about the reserved mode in the guide how to send protected emails in Gmail with expiration and password .
Now let's see how you send messages protected with the Gmail app on Android and iPhone, available only now with the latest update.
Open Gmail, press to write a new message and then tap the button at the top right.
Select Confidential Mode to bring up all protection options.
You can then set an expiration date and passcode or paswsord to open the message.
The expiry date can be one day, one week, one month, three months, 5 years.
The passcode can be standard or SMS Passcode.
In the first case, if the message is sent to recipients with a Gmail address, there will be no password, which will instead be entered if the recipients do not use Gmail.
In the second case, the password is sent via SMS, thus also entering their phone number.
You can also prevent recipients from opening an email before the expiration date .
To do this, after sending the message, open it from the list of sent, scroll down and press the key that removes access.
This is equivalent to destroying the sent message.
Recipients of confidential emails receive in clear text the link to access and not the content that will be available with passcode or without depending on the choices made.
READ ALSO: All the ways to send Email protected by encrypted passwords
