Tech tip How to use Gmail to delete emails in bulk.
Gmail inbox full once more? Here are some pointers for clearing out your inbox and deleting emails in bulk.
Ankush Pandey
Highlights
- You can use the "Unsubscribe" filter to remove emails in bulk.
- Additionally, you can use search terms to eliminate emails from particular senders or time frames.
- You can also retrieve deleted emails from the trash folder in Gmail within 30 days.
Again, is your Gmail inbox full? Emails accumulate in inboxes over time due to the constant barrage of promotional emails, newsletters, receipts of the most recent transactions, and other correspondence. The 15GB of free storage that Google offers, which is shared across Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos, can be swiftly depleted for Gmail users.
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Google does have plans to purchase additional storage, but it will never be sufficient and may eventually become overloaded with new emails. Therefore, you must clean your mailbox in order to resolve the problem. But when manually deleting each email could take hours, how can you clean emails in bulk? Let us assist you, then. Here are some pointers for clearing out your Gmail storage by removing a large number of emails.
Delete all emails with the 'Unsubscribe' tag
Take the following actions to remove all marketing emails from your Gmail account:
- In a web browser, open Gmail and select Inbox.
- Press Enter after typing "Unsubscribe" into the search bar.
- This will display every marketing email with an unsubscribe link.
- Notably, businesses are obligated by law to offer an unsubscribe option.
- Click the little checkbox in the upper-left corner, adjacent to the refresh button and directly above the email list, to remove all of these emails at once. This will choose every email that appears on the first page.
- Additionally, you can click "Select all." The message "Select all conversations that match this search" will show up as a blue notification.
- After selecting every email, click the trash can icon located at the top of the screen. By doing this, all of the chosen emails will be moved to the trash folder.
- To remove emails from other tabs, such as Promotions or Social, go to those tabs and do it again.
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How to delete emails from a specific sender or time period
Emails from a particular sender or within a specified time period can also be deleted. To accomplish this:
Enter a search term in the search bar after logging into Gmail. For instance:
- To remove emails sent by a particular sender, use from:sender_email_address
- To remove emails sent to a particular address, use the "to:sender_email_address" command.
- To remove emails from a given time frame, enter the desired start date in place of the date, such as after: 2023-11-01.
- These queries can be combined, for example, from: sender_email_address OR to: sender_email_address OR after: 2023-11-01.
- All emails that match your search query can be selected by clicking the checkbox in the upper-left corner.
- The selected emails can be deleted by clicking the trash can icon.
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How to recover deleted emails
Emails that have been deleted are placed in the trash folder, where they stay for 30 days before being removed forever. Within this 30-day period, you can retrieve a deleted important email from the trash folder.
