Is your gmail filled with unwanted or spam messages? Now, these unwanted emails like spam, promotional messages and others can take a lot of space in your Google Drive. In such cases, cleaning them regularly is advisable. However, it is not always possible to open every email and delete the messages individually. So, Gmail allows users to delete messages in bulk, by filtering them via categories, read or unread and others.
Google officially allows users to delete emails in bulk through PC or Tablet, but not from Gmail app using your smartphones. But there is a way through which you can get rid of emails in bulk all at once directly from your smartphone. To delete emails from Gmail, the process is similar for desktop and smartphone.
Mobile phone users just need to open their mail ID from a browser and follow the steps below.
How to delete emails on Gmail in bulk
- Open Gmail on your desktop or smartphone in any browser.
- In the Inbox section at the top left, click the Down arrow.
- Tap and select all the messages. If you have more than a page of messages, you can click Select all conversations.
- Now click on Delete to move all the messages in the Trash.
- But what if you want to delete messages in bulk from a particular category? Well, the process is similar. After opening Gmail in browser,
- Select on the category page you want to delete messages. You can select from Primary, Promotions and Social options.
- Now click on checkbox in the top left of the messages.
- Now select all the messages under that category and click on Delete.
How to delete Gmail unread messages in bulk
If you just want to delete the unread messages in your inbox or in particular category
- Open Gmail in the browser.
- In the search bar of the inbox or other category type ‘label:uread’ and press enter. Gmail will display all your unread emails. You can also select just the read message by searching ‘label:read’.
- Now click the ‘Select all box’ on the top side of the messages and then ‘Select all conversations that match this search.’
- Now click on the delete icon on the top to delete all your unread messages.