Outlook for Mobile now allows users to recall accidental emails

Good news for Outlook for Mobile users: Microsoft is enhancing the app with email recall for Android and iOS phones. This means users can ask Outlook to try to take back an email they sent to a colleague within their company.

In other words, if you accidentally send an email, there’s a way to try to undo that. In a blog post, the Redmond-based tech giant explains the new feature step-by-step. After you send an email, you can push the Recall button and undo your action.

However, there is a trick: Recall might not be successful, and Microsoft says it won’t likely work on old emails. This is because the recipients have already opened and read those emails.

After using Recall on an email in Outlook for Mobile, you can edit the email, make the necessary corrections, and send it again, this time to the appropriate persons.

Recall is available to Android and iOS users of the Outlook platform, and it only works if you and your recipients share the same Microsoft 365 environment.

To be able to recall emails in Outlook for Android and iOS, Outlook for Windows, Outlook for the web, and Outlook for Mac, both you and the recipient must be using Microsoft 365 email accounts within the same organization.

Microsoft has recently announced many improvements for Outlook for Mobile, including the ability to compose emails by allowing users to minimize the compose window and multitask in the platform.

What do you think about the new email recall feature for Mobile Outlook? Do you find it useful?