Emails come throughout the day – sometimes Really inappropriate moments. If you don’t have time to deal with an email when it arrives, or if you want to get back to it later and are afraid to forget it, you can use Gmail’s snooze feature.
Snoozing an email means it will disappear for a while and return to the top of your inbox at a time you choose, as if you were retrieving it.
Here’s how to snooze your emails.
Snooze emails in your browser
- In your inbox, hover over the email you want to snooze. On the right you will see a series of icons. Click on what looks like a clock.
- Alternatively, you can select the message or messages you want to snooze using the checkboxes and then click the clock icon that appears above the inbox.
- You can also find the clock icon at the top of the screen when you open the email.
- In any case, when you click on the clock icon, you will see a drop-down list of suggested times. Click the one that suits you best.
- If none of the times shown when you want to receive the message suit you, you can make your own settings by clicking “Choose date and time” at the bottom of the drop-down menu. A popup window will open. After selecting your time and date, click “Save”.
- The email will disappear from your inbox and reappear at the top at the time you choose.
- If you want to be reminded which emails you have delayed, you can access them by clicking “Snoozed” on the left under “Inbox”.
- To retrieve a snoozed email, open it in the Snoozed folder and click “Remove Snooze” at the top of the screen.
Snooze emails in the mobile app
These instructions are for an iPhone, but the steps for Android are similar.
- Open the Gmail app
- Open an email and tap the three dots in the right corner of the screen (not a message)
- Alternatively, if you don’t need to read it first, you can press and hold the message in your inbox until you see a confirmation and then tap the three dots in the top-right corner. If you want to snooze at once, you can do this to several messages at once.
- Select “Snooze” at the top of the menu that appears
- Select one of the suggested times in the popup or tap “Choose date and time”
- Setting the date. Next, tap “Clock” and then “Custom…” to select the time you received. Tap “Next” when you are done.
- Tap “Save” in the upper right corner (for iPhone) or “Save” in the lower right corner (for Android)
- All your snoozed emails are in the Snoozed folder, which you can access by tapping the three bars to the left of the search bar at the top of the inbox.
- To unsnooze a message, go to the Snoozed folder, open the message, tap the three dots in the upper-right corner of the screen, then tap “Unsnooze”.
