This wikiHow teaches you how to delete unwanted emails from your Gmail inbox. You can also get rid of unwanted content and improve your email experience by blocking ads.
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Part 1 of 4: Deleting Unwanted Emails
Step 1. Open Gmail
Visit https://www.gmail.com/ via your computer's web browser. After that, the inbox page will be displayed if you are already logged in to your account.
If not, enter your account email address and password when prompted
Step 2. Make sure you are using the new version of Gmail
To use that version:
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Click the settings gear icon ("Settings")
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Click Try the new Gmail ” at the top of the drop-down menu.
If you see the option “ Go back to classic Gmail ” in the drop-down menu, you are already using the latest version of Gmail.
Step 3. Delete one email
If you only want to delete one or two emails, move the cursor to mark the emails you want to delete, then click the " Trash " icon
at the far right of the message.
Step 4. Select multiple emails that you want to delete
Click the checkbox to the left of each email that you want to delete.
Step 5. Click the "Trash" icon
It's at the top of the page. After that, the selected email will be moved to the “Trash” folder.
Step 6. Click Trash
This folder is on the left side of the page.
Step 7. Click Empty Trash now
This link is at the top of the “Trash” folder.
Step 8. Click OK when prompted
After that, the emails in the “Trash” folder will be permanently deleted.
If you don't delete the email from the “Trash” folder, it will be automatically deleted after 30 days
Step 9. Empty the “Spam” folder
If there are emails in the “Spam” folder, you can delete them using the following steps:
- Click the folder " Spam ” on the left side of the page.
- Click " Delete all spam messages now ” at the top of the “Spam” folder.
- Click " OK ' when prompted.
Step 10. Return to the inbox
Click the folder Inbox ” on the left side of the page to return. When you're done deleting certain emails, you can move on to more detailed methods of cleaning your inbox.
Part 2 of 4: Blocking Unwanted Email Senders
Step 1. Try marking the email as spam
You can simply mark an email as spam from the start because blocking an email sender will immediately move emails from that sender to the “Spam” folder. This method is less effective than blocking the sender itself, but it can be a good option for emails sent from automated services (eg Spotify):
- Select the email by clicking its checkbox.
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- Click " Report spam & unsubscribe " if available. If not, click " Report ”.
Step 2. Open the email from the unwanted sender
Click the email from the sender you want to block.
Step 3. Click
It's in the upper-right corner of the email window. After that, a drop-down menu will be displayed.
Step 4. Click Block "[sender]"
This option is in the drop-down menu.
For example, if you open an email from Twitter, click the “ Block "Twitter" ”.
Step 5. Click Block
It's at the bottom of the pop-up window. Once clicked, the return address will be added to the account block/blacklist.
Part 3 of 4: Mass Delete Emails of a Specific Time
Step 1. Specify the deletion deadline
This date becomes the limit indicating that messages received after that date will be retained, while other messages sent before that date will be deleted.
For example, if you want to delete one that was received more than one year ago, today's date in the previous year will be the cut-off date
Step 2. Click the search bar
This bar is at the top of your inbox.
Step 3. Enter the date filter
Type in:inbox before:YYYY/MM/DD. Make sure you replace the "YYYY/MM/DD" entry with the desired due date in that format (in this case, year/month/date). After that, press Enter key.
For example, to display all emails received before September 25, 2016, type in:inbox before:2016/09/25 into the search bar
Step 4. Click the "Select All" checkbox
It's in the top-left corner of the window, just above the email list. Once clicked, all the emails displayed on the screen will be selected.
Step 5. Click Select all conversations that match this search
This link is at the top of the email list. Once clicked, all emails sent before the specified due date will be selected.
Step 6. Click the "Trash" icon
It's at the top of your inbox.
Step 7. Click OK when prompted
Once clicked, all selected emails will be moved from the “Inbox” folder to the “Trash” folder.
Emails stored in the “Trash” folder still take up space
Step 8. Empty the “Trash” folder
After deleting all selected messages from your inbox, you can delete them from the “Trash” folder with the following steps:
- Click the folder " Trash ” on the left side of the page.
- Click the link " Empty Trash now ”.
- Click " OK ' when prompted.
Part 4 of 4: Automatically Delete Spam Emails
Step 1. Select a spam email
Click the checkbox to the left of the message that you want to filter in the future.
Step 2. Click
It's at the far right of the inbox tools list, which is at the top of the inbox list. After that, a drop-down menu will be displayed.
Step 3. Click Filter messages like these
This option is in the drop-down menu.
Step 4. Click Create filter
It's at the bottom of the window that appears.
Step 5. Check the box " Delete it"
This box is at the top of the window. This option indicates that messages from the selected sender will be deleted immediately when received in the inbox.
Step 6. Check the box "Also apply filter to matching conversations"
This box is at the bottom of the window. With this option, you can also delete existing messages from that sender.
Step 7. Click Create filter
It's at the bottom of the window. Once clicked, a filter will be created. From now on, emails from the selected sender will be immediately moved to the “Trash” folder.
