Gmail is one of the most used email accounts around the world, both by companies and individuals. If you have a Gmail account, surely at some point you have had to block a contact. If for any reason you need to unlock it, we will show you here.
The email address is the means by which we can be reached on the internet in a formal and informal way. In this very technological age, many things can be done digitally. That is why Gmail in each update adds tools that can be useful to us.
This platform can be configured to notify us when a new email arrives in the inbox. This setting can be implemented on both a computer and a mobile phone. That allows us to know in real time, when we have a potentially important message for us.
Another important aspect that can be highlighted is the ability of Gmail to protect the accounts of its users, with the aim of giving them greater privacy. We have to recognize that we all like to keep accounts private that we have in any application.
On the other hand, by mail we get a lot of information about our work, too it is a means to communicate with our friends. Even when we make a purchase, the email address is the preferred means of finalizing the details.
However, many times it has happened to us that someone with whom we had to deal in this way, continues to use our email address to send us information about the products that they promote or think we may be interested in.
We cannot deny that this situation can also occur with private individuals that we have among our contacts; at first communication can be very normal and then it can get totally annoying. For these cases, Gmail has provided us with a very important tool: Block a Contact.
If you have already used this function, you have probably already seen how effective it can be when you want to distance a contact from you. Now, if you need to resume relations with that contact even diplomatically, Gmail also allows you to reverse this action.
Gmail is just one of many Google products, so depending on the amount of blocking you’ve applied, it may have obstacles to access you in all applications of Google.
So if you want to unblock it only in Gmail and not in the other applications, one of the things you can do is try to locate one of its messages in your mail. If you have no idea where to look for it, you can try your spam.
Unblock messages by hand
One of the ways to unblock a contact is placing a message in the inbox, you may have some from past dates that you haven’t deleted. Once you locate the message you must open it and locate the Name section. There you will see the unlock tab.
You must click on the unblock name tab and Gmail will ask you to confirm the action. After that, the platform will allow that contact that their messages can go directly to the inbox.
If you have activated the notifications of the messages received, after unlocking you will receive a notice when the messages arrive. This is very necessary if you need to reach an agreement for a purchase or to resume communication with a person.
Unblock ‘Spam’ messages
Gmail has a very useful function for all users: Spam messages. This tool allows an account owner to report all suspicious messages that arrive to your inbox. Once you make the report, all similar messages are classified and sent to this section.
That way, you don’t expose yourself to viruses or any other malicious action from a sender. However, if you make many complaints without discrimination, you can have the emails that someone sends you without malice blocked or sent to the Spam folder, to avoid this you must monitor your behavior in this regard.
In order to unblock the messages that are in the Spam folder, you must locate the account settings, pressing the gear nut. Among the options that appear you must click on filters and blocked addresses. In that section you will see all the blocked addresses. Just check the box to remove the name from this list and go to the inbox.
What to do to find the messages sent to you by an unblocked Gmail user?
If in a moment of anger at the annoyance that the messages of that contact caused you and you not only blocked it but also deleted them, then there is nothing to do. Deleting the messages from the platform could be recovered, although you should be clear that it is very difficult and unlikely that you will succeed.
If you used a filter to prevent some messages with certain keywords from reaching your inbox, you can again configure the words to allow viewing of those messages. Also, you can locate it in any of Gmail folders either junk or spam.
How to unblock conversations in Google Hangouts to get messages back?
Hangouts is a Google messaging application in which you can block an unwanted contact. If you want to unblock that person you have to open the application and click on the three-line icon at the top of the screen.
Locate the configuration tab and you have to scroll until you find the section of blocked people. With that will come out a list of blocked contact names. This situation prevents them from contacting you and their emails will automatically go to the Spam folder.
In order to allow that contact to access you, you just have to click on unblock. With this, that person will be able to contact you for any Google product.