Google appears to be working on a Confidential Mode where everything is privacy focused and could also see self-destructing emails.
This Confidential Mode allows a user to send self-destructing emails & prevent the recipient from downloading, forwarding, printing or copying the contents of the email. With this new update, Gmail will show a lock like icon to activate the Confidential Mode. Here you can set the expiry date for the email after which it'd be deleted.
But the catch in this feature is that you can still take a screenshot or do screen recording so that you can have a copy of the email for yourself.
Some other features in this Confidential Mode is that the recipient would have to type in an SMS passcode to confirm their identity before the contents of the email are displayed. After entering the passcode, the recipient would also have to click on a link to verify your identity to reveal the contents of the email.
This Confidential Mode allows a user to send self-destructing emails & prevent the recipient from downloading, forwarding, printing or copying the contents of the email. With this new update, Gmail will show a lock like icon to activate the Confidential Mode. Here you can set the expiry date for the email after which it'd be deleted.
But the catch in this feature is that you can still take a screenshot or do screen recording so that you can have a copy of the email for yourself.
Some other features in this Confidential Mode is that the recipient would have to type in an SMS passcode to confirm their identity before the contents of the email are displayed. After entering the passcode, the recipient would also have to click on a link to verify your identity to reveal the contents of the email.
The thing is that Gmail is actually not deleting any emails. It just disables all the links for the email so that it can't be viewed. But its not sure that this feature will be available to emails sent to other email platforms.
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