Deleting an important email can be a nightmare. The good news is that Gmail has made it incredibly easy to undo this process. so simple, in fact, that from the gmail home page (your inbox) you are only 4 clicks away from retrieving the email.
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Below are two guides:
- one to show you how to recover deleted gmail emails.
- a second guide to recover deleted gmail emails from your mobile device.
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how to recover deleted emails in gmail
here is a step by step guide to recover deleted emails from your gmail account on your desktop. the entire process should take less than 30 seconds.
step 1: gmail trash/trash folder
go to your gmail inbox.
On the left of the screen, there is a list of folders (Inbox, Featured, Spam, etc.). your deleted emails will be in a folder called “trash” or “trash” (these are the same folder, but have a different name depending on the user’s language settings).
if you can’t see a folder named “trash” or “trash”, click “more” at the bottom of the list. this will show all your gmail folders and now it will find the correct folder.
note: many of your other folders will have a number to the right of them. this is the number of unread emails in this folder. however, the trash folder will never display a number, even though it contains unread emails.
Step 2 – Recover your deleted email
Now that you have found the folder containing the deleted emails, you can start recovering them. browse within the folder for the email you want to recover and click the box on the far left of the email row to select the email.
Once you’ve found and selected the right emails, click “Move to” in the row of buttons above the list of emails. From the drop-down menu that now appears, you can select where to put the deleted email.
Moving it to any folder except the “Trash” or “Bin” folder will recover the email from deletion. If you don’t want to organize the email, you can simply click the “Inbox” option, and the deleted email will be put back in your inbox.
recover deleted gmail emails on ios/android
The process to recover deleted gmail emails is pretty much the same for mobile as it is for desktop.
first, find the deleted email in the folder named “trash” or “bin”.
When you’ve found the email in the folder, tap it to open it.
once the deleted email is open, you will see three dots in the upper right corner of the screen. tap this button and the options for email actions will appear.
From these options, press “Move to”. Select a new folder – “Inbox” will work fine if you don’t want to organize the email elsewhere.
Once this is done, the email will be recovered from deletion and will not be removed from your inbox after 30 days.
how to recover deleted emails in gmail after 30 days
gmail deletes all messages that have been in the “trash”/”trash” or “spam” folder for more than 30 days. this is done automatically and permanently and it is impossible to undo or recover these emails.
note: these are the only folders that gmail will automatically delete emails from. If your emails are being removed from other folders such as “inbox” or “sent” then an external party is doing it and you should contact google support.
emails deleted from trash in gmail
in the gmail trash folder, there is an option to “delete forever”. this is a button with a very literal name. Deleted emails from gmail trash are permanently deleted. there is no way to recover them.
then be careful when clicking “delete forever” in gmail. emails in the trash folder are automatically deleted after 30 days, so it’s recommended to just leave the email there. if you need to retrieve the email, you will have a one month window to do so.
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