Edited the message by adding message recipient(s)Īgain, sorry.Pressed the “Send & Mic Drop” button with no recipients and saw error message.But livid users cried fool after unintentionally attaching minions dropping a. It was rare, but possible to press the regular “Send” button and still Mic Drop if you did the following: A mic drop is a popular meme in which someone makes a final statement before dropping a microphone and traipsing off. We didn’t anticipate accidental clicks: “Send + Mic Drop” was too close to other send buttons (“Send” as well as “Send & Archive”), which caused confusion. At Google we have a culture of sharing what we learned when things go wrong, and we want to share these learnings with you: We should have asked you before turning on the feature, and it should have included a confirmation before sending. Note that if you’re a Google Apps business, education or government user this feature was never turned on. We realize many of you use Gmail for very important messages, and we are sorry if Mic Drop was in any way harmful to you. April Fools day this year prompted Google to introduce a ‘drop the mic’ option within its email service Gmail, which is used by more than 1 billion people.

In addition, we are working to bring back Mic-Dropped messages that had subsequent replies to your inbox, so you can read those. Johannesburg - Search giant Google’s attempt to prank Gmail users with a ‘mic drop’ emailing sending option has backfired on Friday with tales of disappointment and despair. “UPDATE: We heard feedback that some of you were negatively impacted by this feature, so we quickly turned it off late last night.

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