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title: Snooze and read later
description: Hide a message until a better time, bring it back early, and save messages to read later.
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Two tools help you deal with mail at the right time. **Snooze** hides a message and brings it back to your Inbox when you choose. **Read later** keeps a list of messages you want to come back to, without moving them.

## Snooze a message

1. Open the message.
2. Click **Snooze** in the toolbar.
3. Pick a time: **Later today (+3 hrs)**, **Tomorrow 9 AM**, **This weekend (Sat 9 AM)** or **Next week (Mon 9 AM)**.

<img src="/images/mail/snooze-menu.png" alt="The Snooze menu open in the message toolbar" class="dark:hidden" />
<img src="/images/mail/snooze-menu-dark.png" alt="The Snooze menu open in the message toolbar" class="hidden dark:block" />

The message is archived and leaves the list. At the time you picked, it comes back to your **Inbox**.

:::note
A snoozed message always comes back to the Inbox, even if you snoozed it from another folder.
:::

**Snooze** is not offered for messages in **Trash**.

Some summary cards have a **Remind me** button, for example on a bill or a package. It snoozes the message too, and a notice tells you when it comes back. See [AI help in mail](/guide/mail/ai-help).

## See and manage snoozed messages

Open **Snoozed** in the sidebar. The heading shows how many messages are pending. Each row shows the sender, the subject and when the message returns, for example "Returns Tomorrow at 9:00 AM".

- **Wake now** brings the message back to your Inbox right away.
- **Cancel** cancels the snooze.

If nothing is snoozed, the page says "Nothing snoozed." and reminds you how to use **Snooze**.

If something went wrong when a message was due back, the row shows the problem in place of the return time.

If a snooze fails, the message comes back to the list the next time it refreshes.

## Save a message to read later

1. Open the message.
2. Click **Read later** in the toolbar. The button changes to **Saved**.

To see your saved messages, click **Read later** in the sidebar. It shows the saved messages that are in your Inbox. If you archive or move a saved message out of the Inbox, it no longer shows there.

<img src="/images/mail/read-later.png" alt="The Read later list with one saved message" class="dark:hidden" />
<img src="/images/mail/read-later-dark.png" alt="The Read later list with one saved message" class="hidden dark:block" />

To remove a message from the list, open it and click **Saved**.

Read later is personal. Other people who share the mailbox do not see your list.