Introduction

You're not alone if your Gmail inbox is overflowing with spam and unwanted emails.  Even the most organized person occasionally needs help cleaning out their inboxes. Given that Gmail is one of the most popular email clients, leaving your inbox unchecked can quickly lead to a cluttered inbox, and clutter can physically impact your well-being and overall productivity. This is why you need to extend the practice of decluttering from our physical world to our digital world.

In this article, we’ll cover the different methods of deleting your Gmail emails in bulk. Whether you want to achieve “Inbox Zero” or simply declutter your Gmail inbox, this blog will cover everything you need to know to effectively delete multiple emails while addressing some of the challenges of deleting emails in bulk. Let’s dive right into them!

How to Delete Gmail Emails in Bulk (Delete all Emails on Gmail)

In the website version, Google offers quick and easy ways to delete your emails simultaneously. You can delete them in bulk by deleting all or filtering them via categories such as promotions, read and unread, etc. Let’s look at how to delete your email bulk from the website.

Deleting “Primary” Emails

Sometimes, your inbox is so cluttered that you often feel like starting afresh. If you want to delete all your Primary emails in one go, follow the instructions below.

1. Select Inbox on the left of your screen.
2. Click the checkbox on the upper-left corner of the page. This helps you to select all the emails on one page. This is about 50 - 55 emails.
3. To select all Primary emails in your inbox, click “Select all conversations in Primary.” 

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4. Click on Delete or the “trash bin icon” on the top of the mailing list to delete all Primary emails in your inbox.

5. A pop-up notification will appear to confirm your action. Click OK to confirm and delete your emails in bulk. All your Primary emails will be sent to the trash folder.

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Deleting “Promotions” Emails

Sometimes, our inboxes are flooded with promotions from e-commerce and shopping sites or random subscriptions to publications. You can clear your inbox of these emails by following the steps below.

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1. Click on “Promotions” as shown in the image below.

2. To select all emails on the page for deleting emails in bulk, click the checkbox in the top left corner. This helps you select all the emails on one page, which is about 50 to 55.

3. Click on “Select all conversations in Promotions” to select all your Promotions emails in your inbox.
4. Click on the” trash bin icon” to delete all your Promotions emails in bulk.

5. A pop-up notification will appear to confirm your action. Click OK to confirm and delete all Promotions emails. All deleted emails will be sent to the trash folder.

Deleting “Social” Emails

If you have an account on any social media platform, you might have several emails under “social.” You can delete all your “social” emails by following the below steps. 

1. Click on “Social,” as shown in the image below.

2. To select all emails on the page to delete emails in bulk, click the checkbox in the top left corner. This helps you choose all the emails on one page, which is about 50 - 55.

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3. To select your social emails in bulk, click “Select all conversations in Social.”

4. Click the” trash bin icon” to delete all your Social emails in bulk.

5. A pop-up notification will appear to confirm your action. Click OK to confirm and delete your Social emails. The deleted emails will be sent to the trash folder.

Deleting “Read” and “Unread” Emails

Read Emails

To delete emails you’ve already read in bulk, follow the steps below.

1. Open Gmail in your browser and sign into your account.
2. In the search bar, type “is: read” and hit “Enter.”
3. Click on the checkbox in the top left corner.
4. Click on “Select all conversations that match this search” to select all read emails in your inbox.
5. Click on the trash bin to delete all read emails in your Gmail in bulk. 

A pop-up notification will appear on your screen to confirm your action. If you’re sure that you want to delete all your read emails, click OK. All your “read” emails will be sent to the trash folder.

Unread Emails:

You can follow the same steps to delete “Unread” emails. 

1. In the search bar, type “is: unread” and hit “Enter.”
2. Click on the checkbox in the top left corner.
3. Click on “Select all conversations that match this search” to select all your unread emails.
4. Click on the “trash bin” to delete all read emails in your Gmail in bulk. 

5. A pop-up notification will appear on your screen to confirm your action.

6. If you’ve decided that you want to delete all your unread emails, click “OK.” All your unread emails will be sent to the trash folder.

Deleting Emails Before or After Specific Dates:

You can also delete all emails on Gmail based on the date they were sent. Selecting emails before or after a specific date allows you to choose multiple emails and delete them in bulk. In the same way, you use the search field to search for read or unread emails. You can filter your inbox using the format of dd/mm/yyyy

1. Open Gmail in your browser and sign into your account.
2. In the search bar, type before [dd/mm/yyyy] or after [dd/mm/yyyy] and press “Enter.”
3. Click on the checkbox in the top right corner.
4. Click on “Select all conversations that match this search” to select all emails before or after the required date.
5. Click on the “trash can” at the top of the mail list to delete all the selected mail from your Gmail.

6. A pop-up notification will appear on your screen to confirm your action. All your emails will be sent to the trash folder.

Deleting Email Threads from a Sender

To delete emails from a particular person or sender, you can enter the person's name or the sender's email address in the search field in Gmail and filter your inbox. You can use to: and from: You can type to xyz or from: xyz. You can also type in the email address. For, e.g., to: [email address] or from: [email address]. 

1. In the search bar, type “to xyz” or “from xyz” or enter their email address, and press “Enter.”
2. Click on the checkbox in the top right corner to select all. However, this will be only emails on the page, which will be about 50 - 55 emails.
3. Click on “Select all conversations that match this search” to bulk-select all emails before or after the required date.
4. Click on the “trash can” at the top of the mail list to bulk-delete all the selected mail from your Gmail.

5. A pop-up notification will appear on your screen to confirm your action. Click “OK” to delete all the emails selected. All your emails will be sent to the trash folder.

Pro tip

• To permanently delete your emails, click the “Empty Trash now” option that will appear at the top. You can let Gmail do the job for you, as it will automatically empty the Trash folder after 30 days.

• If you want to keep an email, click and drag it to another folder before confirming deleting the emails in bulk.

It is important to note that once you click “Empty Trash,” the emails will be permanently deleted, and you cannot retrieve them.

Retrieve Deleted Emails from the Trash Folder

You might have deleted an important email while deleting your Gmail emails in bulk. If the stipulated 30 days haven’t passed since you deleted it, you need not worry. Gmail offers an easy way to retrieve it. Here’s how.

1. Select the trash folder on the left. You may need to select “more” and scroll down to find it.

2. To select the email you want to recover, click the checkbox next to it. Then click on “move to” which is the icon that looks like a folder. This will give you different folder options to move your recovered email/emails. 

3. Select the folder to which you want to move the recovered email/emails. Your emails are now recovered.

Deleting bulk emails in the Gmail app (Android and iOS)

When deleting all emails in bulk, Gmail provides many easy and convenient ways on the desktop. However, there aren’t as many options to delete emails in bulk in the Gmail app. Let’s look at how you can delete emails from your Gmail app on an Android or iOS. 

The following steps apply to both Android and iOS devices.

1. Open the Gmail app on your device.
2. Go to the folder you wish to delete your emails from – All inboxes, primary, promotions, etc.

3. Tap on the checkbox in the top left corner to select all emails on that page and hit the delete icon, which is the “trash bin” in the top right corner. This will allow you to delete 50 emails in bulk. 
4. If you don’t want to clear the entire folder, you can also select multiple emails by individually tapping on the thumbnail of each email.

5. To permanently delete the emails, navigate to “Bin” in the menu and click “Empty trash now.” Please remember that you cannot recover the emails once you empty the bin.

Handy Short Cuts for Devices

The Gmail app provides a handy way to delete emails quickly. This is the” swipe” feature. By swiping left or right on the email, you can archive, delete, mark as read/unread, move, snooze, etc. 

For this blog, we’ll look at how to set this swipe function to delete emails in bulk.

1. In your Gmail app, go to the menu and select Settings in your Gmail app. You will have to scroll down to the bottom of the list.
2. In “Settings” select “Inbox customization”

3. Tap on “Email swipe action” and customize your swipe actions.

Disclaimer: We’ve used screenshots on an iOS device to explain how to delete emails on a Gmail app on a phone. However, the process will work for Gmail app on Android devices as well. Also learn more about how to delete your personal gmail account .

Plug-Ins to Delete Gmail Emails Seamlessly

You may try your best to manage your Gmail inbox actively. But life catches up to the best of us, and we face the same problem again. 

You must consider leveraging these third-party tools to help manage your Gmail inbox and ensure you are at the top of your email bulk deletion game. These tools enable you to effortlessly unsubscribe from unwanted emails, declutter, and delete your Gmail emails in bulk while keeping your data safe and maintaining your privacy.

Let’s look at some of them.

Trimbox

You can also download the Trimbox app on Android and iOS devices and delete all emails in Gmail efficiently. With Trimbox, you can 

• Identify mailing list emails and spam quickly.
• One-click unsubscribe from all email lists.
• Will mass delete old junk emails by deleting spam.
• Create Gmail storage space and tidy up your inbox.
• Block spam to concentrate on essential emails.
• Your data securely stays on your computer.

Unroll.Me

Unroll.Me also offers apps for both Android and iOS to help declutter your inbox faster and delete all unwanted emails in Gmail on your devices. Here are some of the benefits of using Unroll.Me

• Unsubscribing to unwanted emails is easy, with the button easily visible at the top.
• It helps you to prevent and remove yourself from unethical mailing lists.
• It also secures your mail from phishing malware.

Clean Email

is another popular third-party tool to help delete all your Gmail emails in bulk. Clean email app works with all devices and email providers. Here are some of the highlights of using this app.

• It organizes emails in folders and tidies up the inbox by keeping only the latest email in an email thread.
• It identifies email lists, newsletters, and unwanted subscriptions and gives options to “Keep receiving” or “Unsubscribe.”
• Create rules for emails from subscriptions or senders and mark them as spam, read, etc., with just a few clicks.

Wrapping It Up

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