Check your Gmail inbox: This bug may have deleted some emails

Users of the Gmail app on Apple iOS devices may have to double-check the emails they deleted between Jan. 15 and 22: they may have erased the wrong message.

 

Gmail sent an "important notice" urging users of Gmail's iOS app to re-check their Trash and Spam folders before Feb. 14 for accidentally deleted items.

 

"You may have been impacted by a recent issue in Gmail that inadvertently caused some actions (e.g. delete, report spam) taken while viewing a message to be applied to a different message," it said, according to a screenshot posted by tech site The Verge.

 

It added the issue, which occurred between Jan. 15 and 22, has been fixed.

 

However, it said users should check their Trash and Spam folders "for any items you did not intend to delete or mark as spam and move them back to your inbox."

 

Google apologized for the inconvenience.

 

The Verge also quoted Google as saying the bug cropped up in a software update on just a handful of platforms — its iOS app, on mobile browsers, and the offline version of Gmail.

 

It added this came just days after Gmail and several other Google services went down for about 10 percent of users.

 

"That outage lasted for around 25 minutes, with the company attributing it to buggy code that went out to some of its systems," it noted. — TJD, GMA News