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Gmail for iOS bug may have caused users to accidentally remove messages

Google on Wednesday began notifying some users of Gmail's first-party iOS app that they may have inadvertently removed messages they intended to keep thanks to a now-rectified software error.

Users' actions —  such as deleting a message or marking a message as spam —  may have been applied to a message other than the one they were viewing, according to a notification displayed in the Gmail iOS app and reported by The Verge. The bug was active between Jan. 15 and Jan. 22.

The issue could have also impacted those who used mobile browsers or the offline version of Gmail during that time, Google says.

Google is prompting those who may have been affected to review their Gmail trash and spam folders before Feb. 14 to ensure no accidentally-moved messages are lost. Gmail's standard retention policy for messages in those folders is 30 days.



14 Comments

lord amhran 900 comments · 12 Years

No bueno. Hopefully nothing of any import (family photos, buisness stuff etc) was lost or if lost, nothing permanently lost.

lkrupp 10521 comments · 19 Years

Mail.app bug = Outrage, condescension, rants about QA, Steve is dead, threats to switch platforms, discussions of “superior” apps.

 

Gmail bug = It’s Apple’s fault, whatever, Google is fantastic.

marko1357 15 comments · 11 Years

Use bing or yahoo much better only an opinion just because I don't like google

d4njvrzf 794 comments · 11 Years

Quote:
Originally Posted by marko1357 

Use bing or yahoo much better only an opinion just because I don't like google

Didn't Yahoo redesign its webmail interface recently to look more like Gmail? (http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/10/14/yahoo_mail_redesign_users_rebel_at_marissa_mayer_s_gmail_like_update.html)

pooch 768 comments · 16 Years

i thought google never actually deleted anything? that even though you indicated you wanted to delete a message, and that it appeared to you to be deleted, that it lived on in obscurity in some part of google's vast warehouse ...