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# 👻 Send Disappearing Emails
- URL: https://www.jeffsu.org/productivity-ping-29/
- Published: 2022-05-06T10:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-05T13:14:25.000Z
- Description: #29
- Author: Jeff
- Tags: #newsletter, Gmail

If you want to send an email but don’t want the contents coming back to bite you in the butt (i.e. funny yet inappropriate memes 😉) you can use **“Confidential Mode” in Gmail**

### Instructions:

1. Compose an email you may regret in the future
2. Click “Confidential Mode” at the bottom
3. Choose when you want the email to expire
4. For extra security you can pick “SMS Passcode” (note: enter the recipient’s phone number, not your own)
5. You can remove access even before the expiration date by going to the email in your “Sent” folder

### Implications

- For the recipient, the options to copy, paste, download, print, and forward the message text and attachments will be disabled

### Visual walkthrough

Step 1

![Click “Confidential Mode” at the bottom](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2022/05/image.png)

Click “Confidential Mode” at the bottom

Step 2

![Set expiration and choose whether you want to include a passcode](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2022/05/image-1.png)

Set expiration and choose whether you want to include a passcode

Step 3

![You can remove access even before the expiration date](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2022/05/image-2.png)

You can remove access even before the expiration date

## ⌨️ Keyboard shortcuts

- “C” to compose a new email
- CMD+Enter to send the email

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