Does your Gmail inbox look cluttered with years and years of unwanted emails and promotional messages? Is your Google Drive memory full, and email attachments that are not even needed anymore contributed a lot to this? Then, it is better to delete all the emails and start fresh. If you have made up your mind about this, then keep this article at your side during implementation. Here, we have provided 5 different methods that’ll help you delete emails in bulk on your Gmail account.
How to Delete All Emails at Once on the Gmail Website
- Visit the Gmail website on your PC’s browser and log in. If you are a smartphone user, select the Menu option on Google Chrome after loading the Gmail website and select Request for desktop site.
- Make sure you’re on the Inbox section in the left pane. Choose which category of emails you want to delete. Choose Select → Select All Conversations. Now, select the Delete (Trash bin) icon on the top and clear up that particular category of emails in the Inbox.
- Suppose you don’t want any emails in the inbox; select the big Checkbox that is available above the Primary section. The recent 50 emails you’ve received will be selected now.
- Now, you can notice the Select all X conversations in the Primary option on the right corner at the top. Select it and click on the Delete (Trash bin) icon. Now, all the emails you have in this particular Gmail will be deleted at once on your PC, Android Phone, or iPhone.
How to Delete Emails in Bulk on the Gmail App
- After signing in to the Gmail app on a smartphone, tap the Hamburger menu on the top left.
- Select Primary or any required category, and all the emails you’ve received so far will be listed. Press and hold an email to enable multiple selections.
- In the upper left side, tap the Select All option and highlight the first 50 emails. Then, scroll down a bit and click the Select All option again to select the next set of 50 emails.
- When you click the Delete icon, the selected emails will be moved to the Trash. In the same way, you can select and delete all the emails in the Gmail Inbox.
Delete All Emails From a Particular Sender
Like deleting emails from spamming subscriptions, you can also get rid of emails from annoying senders. To do so,
- Type ‘from:sender’s_email_address‘ and search this query on the Gmail website. For example, from:[email protected]
- Now, click on the big Checkbox on the top left side and choose the Delete option to remove emails from this sender on Inbox.
Customize Your Gmail Mass Deletion
Gmail offers customizations to delete emails of certain characteristics, for example, the ones that have attachments of specific sizes, yet-to-be-opened emails, unread/read, etc. To do this, you should pick out those emails using their respective search query on the Gmail website.
The table below will give you a reference to search queries for different characteristics of emails. Following that, I have added a procedure to select them.
| Type of Search | Example of Search Query |
|---|---|
| Read/Unread emails | is:unread or is:read |
| Emails received in a certain time period | older_than:1y, after or before:YYYY/MM/DD |
| Emails larger than a particular size (M- Megabytes | GB – Gigabytes) | larger:12M |
- Open the Gmail website and select the Search mail option.
- Then, type the search query from the above table according to your requirements and search.
- When the emails of the characteristic you are looking for get loaded, select the Checkbox at the top of them and choose the Select all messages that match this search option in blue color.
- Then, click on the Delete option, and the emails of the particular characteristic will vanish from the Inbox and get stored in the Trash/Bin folder.
IMPORTANT!
Any email you delete on Gmail will still be available in the Trash/Bin folder. So, you have to empty this folder to get rid of all the unwanted emails from your inbox. To do so, select the Trash option from the left pane and highlight the big Checkbox like you previously did. Then, click the Delete Forever option.
Use Chrome Extensions to Delete Bulk Emails in Gmail
The previous methods can be used to delete emails on your Google account in bulk, no matter which sender it has come from. But there might be situations where you are spammed by certain subscriptions and want to remove emails received only from a particular account. For this, you can use certain Chrome Extensions that’ll segregate and display emails from different subscriptions and let you delete the unwanted ones.
InboxPurge is one of those best and free extensions that also provides functions to block emails from subscriptions along with deletion. Here’s how to access it.
- On the Google Chrome web browser, search for Chrome Web Store from the account whose emails you want to delete.
- After selecting the Search extensions and themes field, type & search InboxPurge.
- The Gmail Bulk Unsubscribe & Delete – InboxPurge will show up. Click on the Add to Chrome button and wait till the extension gets added to your Chrome.
- Now, load the Gmail website and select the InboxPurge extension logo that appears near the Settings icon at the top right corner.
- Select the unwanted subscriptions from the list and select the Unsubscribe option. Then, click on the Delete option nearby and delete the spam messages that are overloaded.
- You can also use the Blocklist option from the dropdown menu to select and block subscriptions to no longer receive email from them.
With the above headings, you could have learned how to mass delete emails from Gmail on different devices. Apart from these officially recommended ways, there are lots of open-source tools available that offer more customizations when deleting emails in bulk. You can also give them a try if you wish. Use the method that is best suited to your requirements and clean up your Gmail Inbox for the better.
FAQ
Yes. If you want all the emails in your Gmail Inbox but find it tough to access them, you can archive unwanted ones. By doing this, such emails will not be displayed in the Inbox. To do so, select the old or unwanted emails on Gmail and click the Archive icon.
Yes. On the Search mailbox of Gmail, enter ‘after:YYYY/MM/DD before:YYYY/MM/DD‘ and search. Emails shared with you on the specified dates will appear. Select the Checkbox on the top left and Select all conversations that match this search option if needed. Click the Trash icon, and it’s done.
Absolutely! Head to the Trash/Bin folder and choose the email you want back.
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