How to Snooze an Email in Gmail in 2026 (Desktop and Mobile)

The short answer

On desktop, hover over the email in your Gmail inbox and click the clock icon on the right. Pick a preset (Later today, Tomorrow, This weekend, Next week) or click Pick date & time for a custom slot. On mobile, open the email, tap the three-dot menu, tap Snooze, and pick the time. The email leaves your inbox and returns at the top at the chosen time.

Gmail’s Snooze button turns your inbox into a to-do list that remembers for you. Instead of leaving an email sitting in the inbox as a reminder, you snooze it and Gmail brings it back to the top at the time you choose. This guide shows you how to snooze emails on Gmail web, Android, and iPhone, how to change the default snooze times, and the fix for snoozed emails that come back at the wrong hour.

Snooze an email in Gmail on the web

The fastest way to snooze is from the inbox list itself, no need to open the message.

1. Go to mail.google.com and sign in.
2. Hover your cursor over the email row (do not click to open).
3. Four action icons appear at the right of the row. Click the clock icon (Snooze).
4. Pick a preset: Later today, Tomorrow, This weekend, Next week, or Someday.
5. Or click Pick date & time at the bottom for a custom slot down to the minute.

The email disappears from your inbox and reappears at the top of the list at the chosen time, with a Snoozed label showing until you open it.

You can also snooze an email that is already open. Click the clock icon in the toolbar above the message, same picker appears.

Snooze an email in Gmail for Android

The mobile app hides the snooze button inside the three-dot menu, not on the inbox row like on desktop.

1. Open the Gmail app.
2. Tap the email to open it.
3. Tap the three-dot menu at the top right.
4. Tap Snooze.
5. Pick a preset or tap Pick date & time for a custom slot.

For bulk snoozing, tap and hold one email to enter selection mode, tap more emails to select them, then tap the three-dot menu at the top and pick Snooze. All selected emails get the same snooze time.

Snooze an email in Gmail for iPhone

The iPhone app works almost the same way as Android, with one small difference in the menu position.

1. Open the Gmail app.
2. Tap the email to open it.
3. Tap the three-dot menu at the top right of the message.
4. Tap Snooze.
5. Pick a preset or tap Pick date & time.

On iOS 17 and later, you can also swipe left on an email in the inbox to reveal Snooze as a swipe action (if you have enabled it under Settings, Mail swipe actions, Right swipe, Snooze).

Change the default snooze times

The presets like “Later today” and “This weekend” use default clock times set by Google (usually 1 p.m., 8 a.m. Monday, and 8 a.m. Saturday respectively). You can change these so they match your actual schedule.

1. On the web, go to mail.google.com.
2. Click the gear icon, then click See all settings.
3. Click the Advanced tab.
4. Scroll to Custom defaults under the Snooze section.
5. Set your preferred times for Morning, Afternoon, Evening, and Someday.
6. Click Save Changes at the bottom of the page.

These custom defaults sync across the web and mobile apps once you refresh. Note that if your Advanced tab does not show a Snooze section, your account may be on Google Workspace with admin-restricted settings. Check with your Workspace admin in that case.

See and manage your snoozed emails

Everything you have snoozed lives in a dedicated Snoozed folder in the Gmail sidebar.

1. In the Gmail sidebar on the web, click Snoozed. On mobile, tap the hamburger menu, then Snoozed.
2. Each email shows the date and time it will return.
3. To change the snooze time, hover over the email (web) or open it (mobile), click the clock icon, and pick a new time.
4. To cancel snooze and bring the email back to the inbox now, click or tap Unsnooze.

If you want a weekly review of everything you have pushed to Someday, the Snoozed folder sorted by date is the right place to look. Sunday afternoon is a common habit.

Troubleshoot when snooze does not work

Three common reasons a snoozed email returns at the wrong time or not at all.

Cause 1: your Gmail time zone is wrong. Snooze presets use the time zone set under Settings, General, Default country code and time zone on the web. If you traveled and did not update the setting, your 8 a.m. Tomorrow might be 8 a.m. in Manila when you expected 8 a.m. in New York. Open Settings, General, and confirm the time zone matches where you are.

Cause 2: the email is also in a filter rule that re-archives it. If you have a filter with Skip the Inbox on the sender, the email returns at the snooze time but goes straight back to archive. Check Filters and Blocked Addresses for a conflicting rule.

Cause 3: you snoozed from one account but are viewing another. Gmail snoozed folders are per account. If you have multiple accounts signed in, open the account switcher at the top right and confirm you are in the inbox where you snoozed the email.

We are hoping the snooze workflow saves you from the “I will handle this later” inbox pile. If you develop a snooze schedule that works especially well for your role, share it in the comments below and we will highlight the best ones.

Caren Bautista

Technical Writer at PIES IT Solution

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