How to activate confidential mode in Gmail from your mobile

If you are one of those who use Gmail for everything, including work, this news will interest you. We already told you about confidential mode at the time, a feature that allows you to create and send email messages with an expiration date through Google email.

Well, now this feature can be used from the mobile phone. The Gmail app for iOS and Android has been updated with this new featureSo from today you have the option to send confidential messages through your mobile device. We tell you how to do it in a few simple steps.

First things: what is a confidential message

This is a strictly private message. Much more private than any message that you can send to anyone and that can then be forwarded like nothing. What Gmail seeks with this new functionality is to allow users exclusive access to content especially aimed at them and that should not leave their computers.

Although what makes these messages confidential is the fact that they have an expiration date. When sending them, senders can add an expiration date Once passed, the sender will no longer be able to open the email or download the information that was attached to it .

How to activate confidential mode on your Android mobile

If you want to try to activate the confidential mode on your Android mobile, in principle it will not be necessary to update the Gmail application. This is a change that should be active automatically But if you still don't see this functionality, try updating just in case. You still get it this way. You're ready? Well, let's get started.

1. Access the Gmail application and click on the three dots, located in the upper right corner.

2. A menu will then be activated. And here you can access the so-called Confidential mode.

3. You will enter a screen in which the confidential mode will be activated, so you will not have to do anything else.Well, yes: at this point you have to choose when you want the message to expire You can select if you want it to expire in a day, in a week, in a month, in three months or in five years.

4. You should know, on the other hand, that the confidential mode means that to access the mail, the user needs to enter a code. This is sent automatically via email, but you can also choose the option to send it by SMS. Click the Save button

When you have saved the characteristics of this email, which now has the confidential mode activated, you will see that a box appears inside it indicating its expiration date. In this way, the person or people who receive the message will know that the content of the email – including attachments – will only be available until a specific date.

After this period has elapsed, the options for forwarding, downloading or copying the content will be deactivated, both email and attachments You must know, on the other hand, that the confidential mode has to be expressly activated in each of the emails you send. In other words, this will not be an option that is configured as standard to send all the emails that leave the mailbox. All you have to do is follow the steps indicated above and that's it.

This new feature is already available for users of Gmail for Android, but also for those who use the same application on iOS, that is, on an iPhone or iPad. Users of these devices can activate confidential mode by following the same instructions provided here for Android devices