How to delete all emails at once on Gmail

Have you ever wondered, how you can delete more than 50 emails at one time from your Gmail mailbox? This tutorial article will let you know how to delete all emails at once on Gmail.

Deleting more than 50 emails at once from your Gmail mailbox will keep your inbox clean within just a few clicks. With the Gmail mailbox interface, you will find three tabs, namely Primary, Social & Promotions. So, to start with you need to select the category of email that you want to delete, whether you want to clear unread message from inbox, or do you want to empty your social and promotions tabs.

Nowadays, when everyone gets hundreds and hundreds of email offers every day and consumes email space day by day, which is quite annoying most of the time. To get rid of it, Gmail has provided a way to clear all unwanted emails from our mailbox at once, and giving us a nice empty inbox to start over with.

Here’s how to delete all emails at once on Gmail within a couple of clicks.

How to delete all emails at once on Gmail

To delete more than 50 emails in one go, or want to clear your mailbox in Gmail within a few seconds, just follow these simple steps.

Select the Category tab that you want to delete

The easiest way to delete all emails in Gmail in one go is to select each category one by one, we are going to demonstrate with the “Promotions” category for this tutorial, to make you understand how you can perform it. First of all, select the tab by click on the “Promotions” tab.

Select all emails from the tick box

Once you at the required categories, just click on the tick box which you will find just below the “Search” bar in your mailbox. You need to click on the drop-down button and then select “All”. The below image will make you understand in a better way.

This will select only 50 mails that are mentioned on the same page, so to select all emails in one go, you will find an option just above the promotions tab, which says “Select all {No. of emails} conversations in Promotions”, click on it.

Delete all selected mail in one go

Once you select all emails, hit the “Delete” icon mentioned above the promotions tab, as shown in the image below. As soon as you click on that “Delete” button, a small pop-up appears which says “Confirm bulk action”, click “OK” and you are done.

 

Go to the trash and delete all mails

Though, it is not a necessary step that you need to follow, since all emails from the “Trash” label will be automatically deleted after 30 days. But considering as an optional step, go to the “Trash” label and click it. Then click the above tick box and select “All” and then “Delete Forever”.

You are done, your promotions tabs are empty now, you can repeat the same steps as mentioned hereinabove with the primary and social tabs, to clear your Gmail mailbox clear and clean.

Hope this tutorial article will help you, in case of any query, you are welcome to give us your valued query in the comment section and we will be happy to reply to you. Thanks…!!!

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