3 Ways To Delete All Promotional Emails in Gmail

Are you struggling with a lot of irrelevant emails in your Gmail inbox? We have all been in a situation where we had to sign up on a certain website only to use it once, and then it keeps sending us promotional emails for eternity. These end up clogging the inbox and also eat up a lot of space. In this guide, let’s look at three easy ways to delete all promotional emails in Gmail with a few simple clicks.

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Although the built-in spam filter in Gmail is effective in filtering out promotions, offers, and other targeted ad emails, it’s often not enough. Marketing companies have also evolved and figured out ways to evade those filters, in order to catch your attention when you open your inbox. Thankfully, Gmail now provides easier options to clear such unwanted emails. However, the process is not direct and requires you to have a sharp eye.

1. Delete All Promotional Emails in Gmail on Desktop

Gmail for desktop gives you an option to clear all emails from a specific section. We can use this feature to delete all promotional emails in our inbox in one go. Follow these simple steps:

1. Open gmail.com in any web browser.

2. Navigate to the Promotions tab in your inbox. Click on the tickbox in the top-left corner.

3. Now click on Select all conversations in the Promotions option. It will be highlighted in blue.

4. Click on the delete button.

5. All the emails in your Promotions tab in Gmail will get deleted within a few seconds.

2. Delete Promotional Emails in Gmail on Phone

While Gmail for desktop has the option to delete all emails with a single step, the mobile app lacks this feature at the moment. However, we can still manually delete multiple emails at once, without having to open them. These steps work on Android and iOS.

1. Open the Gmail app on your phone and head over to the Promotions tab.

2. Now tap on the sender icon to select one email, and keep doing the same for other unwanted emails. Be careful to only tap on the sender icon and NOT on the email.

3. Once you complete the selection, tap on the Delete button in the top-right corner.

4. The selected emails will get deleted from your Gmail inbox.

Since the Gmail app on your phone only saves a few emails locally on your phone, this method should clear most of the promotional emails that you see on your phone. However, if you need to delete all emails, then you need to use a desktop, which we discussed above.

3. Stop All Promotional Emails in Gmail Using Filters

The best way to win a war is by not getting into a war. Using the same ideology, we can prevent promotional emails from landing in our inbox, so that we don’t have to delete them manually. We can do this by tweaking the Gmail filters based on the spammers that specifically target us.

1. Open gmail.com on your desktop and go to the Promotions tab.

2. Click on the Select All button.

3. Now click on the three dots icon and select Filter messages like these.

4. Select Create filter.

5. Now choose Skip the Inbox (Archive it) and click on the Create filter button.

This will create a special filter on your Gmail account that will automatically archive all promotional emails from senders who regularly spam you. You don’t have to worry about such emails in the future.

FAQs

Q. Can I delete all promotional emails at once?

You can delete all promotional emails on a desktop. Open Gmail and select all promotional emails, and then choose the ‘select all conversations in promotions’ and click on the delete button.

Q. How do I mass unsubscribe from promotional emails in Gmail?

There is no direct method to mass unsubscribe from all promotional emails in Gmail. You need to rely on third-party tools, which pose a risk to your privacy. Or, you can create a filter by selecting the top spammers who send you promotional emails regularly.

Wrapping Up

Promotional emails in the inbox are a nuisance that distracts us from our important work when we check Gmail. Using the simple steps mentioned in this guide, we can easily delete all promotional emails at once, and also create a customised filter to block such emails in the future. This helps to keep the inbox clean and organized.

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