How to delete emails on iphone gmail

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All messages that were present in your inbox are now in the Trash folder. If you know for sure that you will never want to recover deleted emails from Gmail, you can open the Trash folder, and click the Empty Trash now option. Alternatively, you can wait for 30 days for the Trash folder to be automatically emptied.

The video below shows the entire mass delete Gmail emails process from start to finish, so make sure to watch it if you’re still not sure what to do.

Okay, so it’s easy to mass delete Gmail emails regardless of their content, age, and other criteria. But what if you want to learn how to delete all promotions in Gmail or how to delete all unread emails in Gmail ?

Fortunately, that’s easy too! Let’s take a look at several common scenarios, including those mentioned above:

How to delete all promotions:

1. Log in to your mail account.
2. Navigate to the Promotions category.
3. Click the top checkbox.
4. Click the “Select all [number] conversations in Inbox” option.
5. Click the Delete button.

How to delete all unread messages:

1. Log in to your mail account.
2. Type "is:unread" in the search bar and hit Enter.
3. Click the top checkbox.
4. Click the “Select all [number] conversations in Inbox” option.
5. Click the Delete button.

How to delete old emails in Gmail:

1. Log in to your inbox on a computer.
2. Type "before:YYYY/M/D" (replace YYYY/M/D with the desired date, such as 2022/2/22) in the search bar and hit Enter.
3. Click the top checkbox.
4. Click the “Select all [number] conversations in Inbox” option.
5. Click the Delete button.

How to delete all emails from one sender:

1. Log in to your inbox on a computer.
2. Type the email address or the name of the sender whose messages you want to remove in the search bar and hit Enter.
3. Click the top checkbox.
4. Click the “Select all [number] conversations in Inbox” option.
5. Click the Delete button.

As you can see, anyone can learn how to mass delete Gmail emails that fit certain criteria. Regardless of which messages you clean up, don’t forget to empty the Trash folder as well to free up precious storage space.

The Gmail app for Android and iOS, unfortunately, doesn’t make it possible to mass delete emails on Gmail without you first selecting individual messages one by one. Still, being able to clean up multiple messages at once is better than not being to do so at all.

Here’s how to mass delete emails on the Gmail app:

1. Open the mobile app on your Android or iOS device.
2. Navigate to your Inbox or any other location where the messages you want to remove can be found.
3. Tap the thumbnail to the left of each message you want to remove.
4. Tap the Delete button to remove the selected messages.
5. Empty the Bin folder to free up the storage space occupied by the messages you’ve just deleted.

While it’s certainly possible to clean up messages in bulk using nothing but Gmail’s own email management features, you may find it difficult or impossible to bulk remove messages based on very specific criteria.

For example, you can’t quickly and easily delete large emails in Gmail while automatically excluding messages sent to you by a specific sender. That’s where third-party inbox management tools like Clean Email come in.

Clean Email offers a wide range of email filtering options, allowing you to clean up multiple messages based on its Smart Views, custom search filters, and other criteria.

This is how easy it is to remove all large messages using the app:

1. Go to: //app.clean.email/ and sign in with your mail address.
2. Select the “Emails larger than 10 MB” Smart View.
3. Click the Select all option.
4. Click the Trash button.

Of course, Clean Email lets you change the size of messages you want to remove, and you can easily apply more filters at the same time to, for example, clean up large messages that are older than 1 year.

If there are some senders or categories of emails that you definitely don’t want the app to clean up, then you can go to Preferences → Excluded Emails and add your exclusions there before cleaning.

Besides its Gmail bulk delete capabilities, Clean Email can also unsubscribe you from unwanted subscriptions, block annoying senders, automate commonly performed inbox management actions, and more—all while respecting your privacy and keeping your messages secure.