How can i delete emails in gmail in bulk

Deleting more than 50 emails in Gmail made easy

If you use Gmail, I’m sure you’ve had this issue. Deleting more than 50 emails at one time from your gmail inbox. As you can imagine, if you’re not religious about deleting emails or filing them into multiple folder, you can easily accrue hundreds if not thousands of emails in your inbox. With Gmails introduction of custom tabs; (Primary, Social & Promotions) it’s simpler to to categorize your inbox but on the flip side it makes it incredibly easy to accrue thousands of emails before you clear your inbox. Follow these simple steps.

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Deleting more than 50 emails in Gmail made easy
1. Select The First 50 Emails In Gmail
2. Select All Emails In Your Gmail
3. Finally Delete All Your Emails In Gmail
How to mass-delete all your emails on Gmail at once
How to bulk delete Gmail by date range

1. Select The First 50 Emails In Gmail

Log into your gmail account, at the top click the blank square shown in the example below. This will allow you to select all messages on the screen which will the the top 50 emails in your inbox.

2. Select All Emails In Your Gmail

This still doesn’t solve the issue of how to delete more than 50 emails at one time from your Gmail inbox. If you have emails in your inbox from months or years ago, there is a very simple way to delete all of them. Look for the option to “Select all xxxx conversation in Primary”, this allows you to select more than 50 emails in your inbox for deletion.

3. Finally Delete All Your Emails In Gmail

After you click the “select all conversations in primary”. Then simply click the delete icon (or archive if you wish). Obviously before you mass delete or archive your inbox emails, you’ll want to go through your inbox and make sure you don’t have any important emails that you wish to hold onto.

Knowing how to mass-delete all your emails in Gmail is a great way to keep your inbox tidy and easily readable. It also helps maximize your storage space by clearing out old emails, spam, and conversations you no longer need a record of.

Here are the best ways to mass-delete your emails in Gmail to clean out your inbox.

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How to mass-delete all your emails on Gmail at once
How to bulk delete Gmail by date range

How to mass-delete all your emails on 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, on the left of the refresh button, you will see a box with an arrow next to it. Click on the box to select all the emails. However, clicking the box will only select all the emails from the current page you’re on. For mass deleting all your emails, click on the option that says Select all conversations in Primary. You will find this option in a bar right under the selection box.

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

How to bulk delete Gmail by date range

Gmail also has the option to bulk delete emails by date range. With this feature, you can choose two dates and delete all emails between the specified time period. Here's how to do it.

Step 1: Select the Gmail search box at the top of the page and enter your date range. You do this by using the advanced search operators "before:'" and "after:" with your date entered in YYYY/M/D format. So if you're trying to delete emails between May 1 and December 1, you would enter "before: 2021/5/1 after: 2021/12/1."

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