Deleting unnecessary emails can help us to keep our inbox organized and free up space on our device. It can also make it easier to find important emails and reduce the risk of personal information being leaked or email accounts being hacked. Regularly deleting unnecessary emails is a good habit to maintain a clean and secure email inbox.
How to Delete All Emails on Gmail At Once on Web Browser?
1. To delete all emails at once, open the Gmail website on your web browser and click on the dropdown menu labeled “More” on the left side of the screen.
2. From the dropdown list, select “All Mail” to view all your emails.
3. Click on the top checkbox to select all emails, and then click “Select all xxxx conversations in All Mail” to select all emails in your inbox.
4. Next, click the delete icon to delete the selected emails, and confirm your action by clicking “Confirm” when prompted.
Please note that deleting emails from your Gmail account will permanently remove them and you will not be able to retrieve them. If you want to keep a copy of the emails, consider archiving them instead.
If you don’t want to delete all emails, but rather want to clean up specific ones, you can use advanced search to filter out those emails. For example, you may want to delete unread or read emails.
1. In the search bar at the top of the page, enter is:read (to delete all read emails) or is:unread (to delete all unread emails). This will filter your emails to show only the read or unread emails.
2. After selecting “all” checkboxes, you can see that only 100 emails are currently selected because Gmail inbox defaults to displaying only 100 emails. You can click “Select all conversations that match this search” to select all emails that match the search criteria.
3. Click the trash icon to delete all of the selected emails.
In addition, you can also delete emails that are older than a specific date. operator to delete all emails before a certain date (before:2020/08/06), or the label: operator to delete all emails with a specific label. You can find more information about advanced search operators in Gmail.
How to Delete Gmail Emails in Bulk on iPhone and Android?
Unfortunately, the Gmail app on Android and iOS does not allow for bulk deleting of emails on Gmail without first individually selecting each individual email. However, being able to clear out multiple messages at once is still better than not clearing any at all.
To delete multiple emails on your iPhone/Android using the Gmail app:
1. Tap on the three horizontal lines in the top right corner of the screen to open the menu.
2. Select “All Mail” or “Read Mail” (depending on the type of emails you want to delete).
3. In the list of emails, tap on the avatar to select the emails you want to delete. You can select multiple emails.
4. Then, tap the “Delete” button at the top of the screen.
How to recover deleted emails on Gmail?
1. Open your Gmail account and go to the “Trash” folder.
2. Select the email by checking the box next to it.
3. Click on the “Move to” button at the top of the page.
4. Choose the folder you want to move the email to, such as “Inbox” or “Important.”
5. The email will now be moved out of the Trash folder and back into the chosen folder.
6. If the email was permanently deleted and cannot be found in the Trash folder, you can try using the Gmail recovery form to request that Google attempt to recover the email for you.
How to permanently delete emails on Gmail?
1. Go to your Gmail account and click on the “Trash” folder on the left side of the screen.
2. Check the box next to the emails you want to permanently delete.
3. Click on the “Delete Forever” button at the top of the screen.
4. Confirm that you want to permanently delete the emails by clicking on the “Delete Forever” button in the pop-up window.
Note: Once you permanently delete emails, they cannot be recovered. Be sure to only delete emails that you are certain you no longer need.
Where can I view deleted emails?
Go to your Gmail account and click on the ‘Trash’ folder on the left side of the screen.”
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