Important Takeaways
- Any email from any category, including Primary, Promotions, and Updates, can be snoozed, whether it is read or unread, new or old.
- An email is moved from your inbox to the Snooze folder when you snooze it.
- An email is instantly moved from the Snooze folder to the inbox when you turn off Snooze.
What Does Snooze Mean in Gmail?
Just like when you snooze your alarm clock, snooze signifies to delay a received email. At the designated time, you will receive another notification regarding the same email.
Any time and date can be chosen for the email postponement: later today, tomorrow, a week later, a month later, or two months later. You have an option. All that Gmail has to do is remind you at the appointed time or, more realistically, return the email to your inbox.
What Happens When You Snooze or Unsnooze Emails in Gmail?
Expect the following when you snooze an email:
- The snoozed email is placed to a designated folder called Snoozed and momentarily deleted from your inbox.
- Emails that have been snoozed will display a time stamp at the conclusion of the snooze.
- All of the emails that contain more than one message or thread are moved to the snoozed folder.
- You will receive an email notification akin to that of new emails when the snooze period expires.
- A Snoozed label will appear in email notifications for snoozed emails whose snooze periods have passed.
- Since Snooze does not mute emails, you will be alerted if you receive a new email from the person whose email you have snoozed.
- Additionally, snooze will be removed from the earlier email, and you will receive notifications if a new thread is added to the snoozed email.
How to Snooze Emails on Gmail
On Desktop
Step 1: Open the email you wish to snooze on the Gmail website.
Step 2: Select Snooze by clicking the three dots symbol.
Step 3: Decide how long you wish to snooze the email. This will now move the email to the Snoozed folder and delete it from the inbox.
To put several emails on hold, pick them on the main screen, click the three-dot icon, and then click Snooze.
On iOS and Android
Step 1: Open the email in the Gmail app.
Step 2: Choose Snooze by tapping the three-dot icon in the upper right corner.
Step 3: Finally, choose a snooze time for the email from the list of alternatives.
How to Unsnooze Emails on Gmail
You must first access the email in order to disable snooze. We’ll walk you through the steps below.
On a PC
Step 1: Open Gmail in the browser of your choice.
Step 2: Click the Snoozed folder in the left pane > email > click the Unsnooze label on the right to view snoozed emails.
On the Mobile App
Step 1: Open the Gmail application.
Step 2: Tap the email after swiping right and selecting the Snooze folder.
Step 3: From the menu, choose Unsnooze by tapping the three-dot icon at the top.