Retrieve Outlook sent emails: users’ top concern
Outlook Reclaims the UK’s Unsending Email Search Market
According to a fresh ZeroBounce analysis, UK users are on the hunt for a way to backtrack a sent message almost 28 times more often on Outlook than any other platform.
Key Findings
- Outlook – 4,200 monthly searches for “How to unsend email Outlook”
- Generic “How to unsend email” – 4,075 monthly queries, rank second
- Gmail – 150 monthly searches for “How to unsend email Gmail”, third place
- Sent to wrong person – 98 monthly queries, a common slip
- Yahoo, iCloud, Hotmail – 11–10 monthly searches each, only a handful of users
Search Volume Methodology
The study tapped Google Keyword Planner for the previous 12‑month search data, then summed all variations of each term. The resulting list shows the mistakes that users are most eager to fix.
Top UK Email Mistakes
- How to unsend email Outlook – 4,200
- How to unsend email – 4,075
- How to unsend email Gmail – 150
- Sent email to wrong person – 98
- How to unsend email Yahoo – 11.7
- How to unsend email iCloud – 10.8
- How to unsend email Hotmail – 10
ZeroBounce’s Takeaway
The volume of “unsend” queries illustrates how quickly people press the send button and then wish they could rewind it. Outlook users dominate this search space, highlighting a pressing need for email platforms to provide a reliable recall feature.
