Delete All Emails in Gmail

 

How to Delete All Gmail Emails at Once

To start removing your Gmail emails, first, open a web browser on your Windows, Mac, Linux, or Chromebook computer and access the Gmail site. Log in to your Gmail account on the site.

When Gmail loads, in the sidebar on the left, click “All Mail.” If you don’t see this option, click “More” to reveal the option.

In the pane on the right, you will see all your Gmail emails, including your archived emails. To delete these emails, you will have to first select all these emails. Do that by clicking the “Select” option (a square icon) at the top of the Gmail interface.

Gmail will select all the emails displayed on the current page. To select the emails that are not on this page, at the top of the emails list, click the “Select All X Conversations in All Mail,” where “X” is the number of emails in the “All Mail” folder.

All your emails are now selected. To start deleting them, at the top of the Gmail interface, click the “Delete” option (a trash icon).

You will see a “Confirm Bulk Action” box. Here, click “OK.”

Gmail will start deleting and moving your emails to the Trash folder. To remove your emails for good, you will have to empty the Trash. To do so, in Gmail’s left sidebar, click the “Trash” folder.

In the pane on the right, at the top, click “Empty Trash Now.”

In the “Confirm Deleting Messages” box that opens, click “OK.”

And all your emails except for the ones in the “Spam” folder are now deleted.

To clear the spam emails, in Gmail’s left sidebar, click “Spam.” Then, in the pane on the right, click “Delete All Spam Messages Now.”

And you’re all set.