How do I prevent recipients from seeing each other’s email addresses when I send a group email?
The best way to prevent recipients from seeing each other’s email addresses when sending a group email with Gmail is to use the “Bcc” (Blind Carbon Copy) field. This field allows you to include recipients in the email without revealing their email addresses to anyone else on the list.
When composing your email, locate the “To” field. Next to it, or sometimes below it, you’ll see options like “Cc” (Carbon Copy) and “Bcc” (Blind Carbon Copy). If you don’t see “Bcc,” you might need to click a small link that says “Cc” or “To” to reveal the “Bcc” option. Add all your recipients’ email addresses to the “Bcc” field. This way, each recipient will only see their own email address in the “To” field (or an empty “To” field if you left it blank) and won’t see the email addresses of other recipients.
Alternatively, you can create a Google Group and send the email to the group’s email address. In the group settings, you can configure who can see the member list. This option is particularly useful for managing larger mailing lists or when you need to send recurring emails to the same group of people. However, using the “Bcc” field directly in Gmail is often the simpler and quicker solution for one-off group emails where privacy is a concern.