Google is warning users that a Gmail bug may have unintentionally marked messages for deletion or as spam. Google says that a bug in the Gmail for iOS app, mobile browsers, and offline Gmail, mistakenly handled messages sent between January 12 and 21st. When users viewed a message or marked them to archive, they were sent to spam or trash.
Google urges users to check the Spam and Trash folders before February 14, 2014 because any message in those folders will be permanently deleted. I just checked my inbox and found a few messages that I meant to archive that were instead deleted. Another message from a trusted contact did not arrive to me because she was mistakenly added to the spam folder somehow. If you use the Gmail app for iOS, take a few moments to sift through messages sent during that time and double-check nothing important has been misplaced. You can narrow results by entering the following strings in the Gmail search bar:
"after:2014/01/11 before:2014/01/22 in:spam"
And then search for:
"after:2014/01/11 before:2014/01/22 in:trash"
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