How to send a confidential message to Gmail

Google has introduced its confidential mode for Gmail in 2018, a setting that allows people with a personal account to send messages that expire and prevent recipients from copying their content, to transfer it to others. people or download it.

This is new in the news as G Suite users who use Gmail at work will be able to use the confidential mode from June 25th. This feature will be activated automatically; managers will have the option to turn it off whenever they wish. This means that you will be able to use this feature if your company uses Gmail, which will be especially useful for business people who need to send confidential documents.

You can use confidential mode on a desktop computer or through the Gmail app on your mobile. However, regardless of the mode used, you must enable privacy mode each time you send a message. Here's how to do it.

In your browser

• Compose a new message
• Look for the icon of a clock locked to the right of the "Send" button (it can be hard to find it among all the other icons, but keep looking) and press it.
• A pop-up window will appear allowing you to set the length of time you want recipients to have access to your message before it expires.
• If you want an extra layer of security, you can also ask recipients to enter an access code that will be sent via SMS to their phone numbers.
• A notification that the message is sent in confidential mode appears at the bottom of the message.

On the mobile

These steps are largely the same, but some items are located at different locations than you find in your browser. The process is the same for the iOS and Android versions of Gmail.

• Compose a message
• Touch the three vertical dots in the upper right corner of the application, then touch "Confidential Mode".
• As with a browser, you will have the ability to set the length of time that the message will be visible to the recipients and if it is protected by a password.
• Once the settings are set, a message sent in confidential mode will display a small window at the bottom showing in detail the lifetime of the message before it expires.

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