How to delete all emails on Gmail. Can you recover them after?

• to delete all your emails, users must use the gmail website, not the gmail mobile app.
• gmail users can empty your trash folder to delete permanently emails, as well as retrieve them.

The year 2021 saw an estimated 319.6 billion emails sent and received daily, and projections show that by 2025 that may rise to 376.4 billion, a jump of 15.1%, according to statista . your email can easily become confusing and disorganized with thousands of emails over a span of months or even years.

Deleting emails can be tricky, especially when there’s such an intimidating number that you can’t seem to get past it all. you might accidentally delete an email that you later realized you needed, but you’re not sure how to get that email back.

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how to delete all emails in gmail

To delete all emails in gmail, google explains that you need to use gmail on your computer. you can’t delete all your emails through the gmail app.

google recommends users to follow these steps:

1. navigate to the gmail website: mail.google.com.
2. at the top of the screen, select the category, “main”, “social”, or “promotions” from the one you want to delete emails.
3. at the top left of your screen, directly above the “main” category, click the arrow button, next to the refresh button.
4. In the dropdown menu- below, select the email(s) you wish to delete. you can delete all emails, read emails, unread emails as well as starred or unstarred emails. if you want to delete all emails, select “all” option.
5. selecting “all” will select all emails on your first page. if you want to delete all emails on all category pages, click “select all conversations” in the top center of your screen.
6. to delete, click the icon from the trash can, three to the left of the arrow button. when you mouse over the icon, it will be labeled “delete”.

once you delete your emails, they are moved to your trash. after 30 days, your trash will automatically be emptied, permanently deleting them.

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How to empty your trash on Gmail

You can decide to permanently empty your trash early, bypassing the 30-day waiting period. To do so, Google recommends users to follow these steps:

1. Navigate to the gmail website: mail.google.com.
2. on the left side of the page, under your “inbox”, scroll down until you see the “more” button. select “more”.
3. keep scrolling down until you find “trash” and select it.
4. select the emails you want to empty from the trash. if you want to select the whole page, click the arrow button at the top left and click “all”. if you want to permanently empty all emails from your trash, select “all” and then click “select all conversations” in the top center of your screen.
5. click “delete forever” next to the arrow in the upper left.
6. You will be asked to confirm your deletion. if you are sure, click “empty trash now” or “ok”.

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how to recover emails in gmail

if you move emails to the trash and then change your mind about deleting them, google allows users to retrieve their emails from the trash folder.

google recommends users to follow these steps:

1. Navigate to the gmail website: mail.google.com.
2. on the left side of the page, under your “inbox”, scroll down until you see the “more” button. select “more”.
3. keep scrolling down until you find “trash” and select it.
4. select the emails you want to recover from the trash. if you want to select the whole page, click the arrow button at the top left and click “all”. if you want to retrieve all emails from your trash, select “all” and then click “select all conversations” in the top center of the screen.
5. click the ” icon move to”. the icon, a folder with an arrow inside, is six icons to the right of the arrow button.
6. choose which location you would like to move your discarded emails to.

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