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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 delete all read or all unread emails on Gmail
How to delete promotions on Gmail
How to recover deleted emails on Gmail
How to permanently delete emails on Gmail
Is there a way to delete all emails from one sender in Gmail?
Can you delete all emails from a sender at once?
How do I delete multiple emails from one sender on Gmail Mobile?

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.

To delete all emails on Gmail, click the "Select all" box, then "Select all conversations."
Use your search bar to find emails from specific senders for mass deletion.
If you accidentally delete an email, you can recover it from the Trash folder within 30 days.

If you have a cluttered Gmail inbox, you're not alone. Whether you're looking to free up some storage space or edit folders to organize your inbox, there are some shortcuts for mass-deletion.

Mass-deleting emails can be helpful for emails filed in your Social or Promotions tabs, which often pile up or get ignored. There are also shortcuts for deleting all read emails, all unread emails, and emails from specific senders. Here's how to do it all.

How to delete all read or all unread emails on Gmail

1. Log in to your Gmail account.

2. In the search bar at the top of the screen, type label:read to display all read emails or label:unread to display all unread emails.

3. Click the Select all box to the left of the Refresh button. This will select all emails on the current page — up to 50 emails. To mass delete all emails in this category and not just those on the first page, you can also click Select all conversations that match this search.

You can mass delete emails with just a few clicks using this shortcut. Abigail Abesamis Demarest/Insider

4. Then click the Delete icon at the top, which is shaped like a trash can.

How to delete promotions on Gmail

Promotional emails are emails sent by companies or organizations to consumers with the general goal of selling products. These types of emails are automatically filed in your Promotions tab to keep them separate from your primary inbox.

You may get promotional emails from retailers after making a purchase on their website, or from a blog after signing up for their mailing list.

1. Log in to your Gmail account. Click on the Promotions tab at the top, above your list of emails.

2. Click the Select all box to the left of the Refresh button. This will select all promotional emails on the current page (50 emails). To delete all emails in this category, also click Select all conversations in Promotions.

Click the "Select all conversations in Promotions" button to delete all emails beyond just those on the first page. Abigail Abesamis Demarest/Insider

3. Then click the Delete icon at the top, which is shaped like a trash can.

How to recover deleted emails on Gmail

If you've accidentally deleted some emails you didn't intend to, don't fret. Deleted emails are stored in your Trash folder, where they're saved for 30 days before being permanently deleted.

1. Log in to your Gmail account. Scroll down the menu on the left side of the screen and click the Trash folder. You may need to click on More to reveal it.

2. Click on the boxes next to the emails you want to restore.

3. Click the Move to icon, which is a folder with an arrow pointing right, then select the name of the folder you want to send the emails to.

Select the emails you want to remove from Trash, and hit the "Move to:" icon to move them to another folder. Abigail Abesamis Demarest/Insider

How to permanently delete emails on Gmail

If you're deleting emails to clear up storage space and don't want to wait the 30 days for emails to be deleted from the Trash folder, you can expedite the process by permanently deleting these emails yourself.

To empty your Gmail trash:

1. Log in to your Gmail account. Scroll down the menu on the left side of the screen and click the Trash folder. You may need to click on More to reveal it.

2. Click on the boxes next to the emails you want to permanently delete.

3. Click Delete forever.

Once emails are permanently deleted, they cannot be retrieved. Abigail Abesamis Demarest/Insider

Abigail Abesamis Demarest is a contributing writer for Insider based in New York. She loves a good glazed donut and nerdy deep dives into the science of food and how it's made.

Is there a way to delete all emails from one sender in Gmail?

Search their email address at the top search bar so all you can see by is messages from them, click the box at the top left of the emails twice so they are all checked, and delete.

Can you delete all emails from a sender at once?

Most email programs and services let you delete multiple emails from a specific sender at the same time. To delete thousands of emails from a specific sender, use the email application's Search function to display the messages, and then select and delete the items to purge the emails from your inbox and other folders.