Turn Message Deletion Confirmation On or Off in Gmail on HTC One M8

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Video: Turn Message Deletion Confirmation On or Off in Gmail on HTC One M8

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Hello and welcome to VisiHow. This is a tutorial on how to turn on and off the option to give confirmation before deleting messages in the Gmail application on an HTC One M8.

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   To begin, turn the phone on by pressing the power button located on top of the phone

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   Once the phone has been activated we will see the lock screen.

   

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   To unlock the phone, swipe the screen up

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   Once the phone has been unlocked we will see the home screen, and at the bottom we will see 5 icons. We now need to open the application folder.

   

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   We can do that by tapping the icon in the middle, at the bottom of the screen

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   There is a grid of white dots. This is the icon for the applications folder.

   

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   Now that the folder has been opened, we need to find and tap the Gmail application

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   There is a Gmail icon, which is an envelope with a red 'M', and underneath it says the word "Gmail". Your application may be in a different location, so look for the icon in your folder. We now need to find the settings menu.

   

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   To do that, we need to tap the icon in the top left-hand corner

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   There are 3 horizontal lines. This will open up a menu.

   

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   We want to scroll down and tap on "Settings"

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   Tap on the first option, "General settings"

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   We want the option that says "Confirm before deleting" in the "Action Confirmation" section

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   This means that if we try to delete a conversation in Gmail, it will ask us to confirm that choice to make sure we really do want to delete it. We can see it is currently off because the box is empty. To turn it on, press down on the box.

   

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   The box will then be blue with a white check mark inside, indicating that this option has been turned on

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   To turn it off, press down on the box again.

   

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    The box will then be empty again, indicating that the option has been turned off

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    This concludes the tutorial on how to turn on or off the option to give confirmation before deleting messages in Gmail on the HTC One M8

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