How to Bulk Delete All Your Emails in Gmail at Once | Digital Trends

When your Gmail inbox is full of junk, it can be nearly impossible to sift through the hay to find the needles. Important emails, important documents, and family trip pictures can get buried under mountains of spam and advertisements from shoe companies you’ve never bought shoes from. Luckily, there are a few ways to sort through all your Gmail clutter to bring what matters back into focus.

Bulk deleting your emails is one of the best ways to get your digital inbox back in order, and we’re here to help. We’ve put together this guide to show you how to bulk delete your Gmail emails. You will be happy to know that the process is very straightforward.

How to bulk delete all your emails in Gmail at once

Step 1: The first step is to open Gmail in your web browser and log in to your account.

Step 2: At the top left of the Update button you will see a box with an arrow next to it. Click the box to select all emails. However, clicking the box will only select all emails from the current page you are on. To mass delete all your emails, click the appropriate option Select all conversations in Primary. You will find this option in a bar directly below the selection box.

Step 3: The final step is to click on the trash can icon once you have selected all your emails. It’s on the same bar as the selection box and refresh icon.

How to bulk delete Gmail by date range

Gmail also offers the ability to bulk delete emails by date range. This feature allows you to select two dates and delete all emails between the specified period. Find out how to do it.

Step 1: Select the Gmail search box at the top of the page and enter your date range. To do this, use the advanced search operators “before:” and “after:” and enter your date in YYYY/M/D format. So if you’re trying to delete emails between May 1st and December 1st, enter “before: 5/1/2021 after: 12/1/2021.”

Step 2: Select all emails using the checkboxes and press the Delete key or trash icon to remove them. To remove more than the 50 shown on the first page, click the appropriate option Select all conversations in Primary. You will find this option in a bar directly below the selection box.

How many emails can I delete at the same time?

Gmail allows you to delete up to 50 emails at a time. However, you can also delete all emails associated with a specific subject or label type. To do this, click on the selection field. There should be a popup option that says “ Select all conversations that match this search. Click this option and then click the trash can icon to delete all messages related to that particular topic.

Can you delete advertising and social media messages?

Yes you can. Similar to your regular inbox, the Promotions and Social tabs store unique Gmail messages that, while not spam, may not be the highest priority for your account. Promotional messages are typically newsletters and promotions from companies you have purchased products from, while social media messages deliver messages to your social media accounts.

Luckily, the deletion process is exactly the same as deleting messages from your main inbox. Simply click on the “Promotions” or “Social” tab and then click on the checkbox at the top left of the page. If you want to delete more than 50 messages at once, click the corresponding option Select all conversations in….

What happens if I accidentally delete an email?

When you delete a message in Gmail, it isn’t deleted forever. Deleted messages actually remain in your Trash for 30 days (unless you manually delete the Trash contents yourself). To recover your lost message, click More icon and then click Garbage.

Click the checkbox next to the message or messages you want to restore. Then just click Move to icon (a folder with a right-pointing arrow) to choose where to move these recovered emails.

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