Tech Tip: How to remove email in bulk in Gmail
Gmail inbox complete again? Here are some suggestions that help you remove your email in bulk and free up space.
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Gmail inbox complete again? Well, continuous campaigners stack emails, latest transactions receipts, and with WhatsApp, with time in email inbox. For Gmail users, it can quickly eat 15GB shared in Google, Google, Google Drive and Google photos in free storage.
While Google offers to buy more storage, it can never be enough and eventually fill with new emails. Therefore, to fix the problem, you need to clean your mailbox. But how do you clean the email in bulk when it can take hours to remove each one manually? Okay, we help you. Here are some suggestions that help you clean your Gmail storage by removing email in bulk.
Remove all emails with ‘unsabscreeb’ tag
To remove all marketing emails from your Gmail, follow these steps:
- Open Gmail in a web browser and click onbox.
- In the search bar, type ‘unsabsive’ and press the enter.
- This will show you all the marketing emails that have one subscription finished option. In particular, companies need to legally provide a subscription finished option.
- To remove all these emails simultaneously, click on the small checkbox on the top-left corner, just above the list of email and to the left of the refresh button. This will select all the emails that appear on the first page.
- You can also click on ‘Select all’. A blue notification says that ‘select all conversations matching this discovery’.
- Once all the emails are selected, click on the garbage can icon at the top of the screen. This will take all the selected emails to the garbage folder.
- If you want to remove email from other tabs like promotion or social, navigate on those tabs and repeat the process.
How to remove email from a specific sender or time period
You can also remove email from a specific sender or within a certain time frame. To do this:
Log in Gmail and type a search query in the search bar. For example:
- To remove email from a specific sender: Synger_mail_address
- To remove email sent to a specific address: to: sender_mail_address
- To remove email from a specific time period: Later: 2023–11-01 (replace the date with your desired start date).
- You can add these questions, eg, Synger_mail_address or to: Sender_Email_address or then: 2023-11-01.
- To select all the emails that match your search query, click on the checkbox at the top-left corner.
- Click on the garbage can icon to remove the selected email.
How to recover removed emails
The removed emails are taken to the garbage folder, where they live up to 30 days before being removed permanently. If you accidentally remove a significant email, you can recover it from the garbage folder within the 30-day window.
