LONDON – Google announced new feature, “Confidential mode” back in Aprilthis year for the users for enhanced security of their sensitiveinformation that they email to their contacts. Google rolled out thefeature for desktop only at that time.

On Thursday Google announced in a postlink Twitter thatGmail’s confidential mode has been rolled out to mobile devices.Google explains how the feature works on its support page,

“You can use confidential mode to set an expiration date for messages orrevoke access at any time. Recipients of the confidential message will haveoptions to forward, copy, print, and download disabled.”

Here’s how you can send sensitive information to your contacts using gmail:

– Compose a message – Tap on Confidential mode located at the bottom right corner – A small window will open providing you options to set an expiration date and passcode for the email – Click save

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Now you can set the passcode and only when the recipient enters the codethat he recieves in an SMS on their phone can they open and check the email.

There are many times when not just businesses but also other users need tosend their Passport copies or other credentials. This is critical that theymake sure that the email expires after a certain date and has high securityso, no one else can open the email. So, this confidential mode feature isparticularly helpful to businesses but also quite useful to others.

Back in April, Gmail also underwent a significant design overhaul. Snoozeand Smart Reply were among those features that were introduced in the Gmailredesign.