If you've got a cluttered inbox and want to clean it up then deleting all the emails in your Gmail inbox could be the answer. Here we'll show you how to delete absolutely everything in Gmail and also how to delete all the emails from certain senders and with certain keywords. The latter method is handy if you get lots of email newsletters and never delete them. Tidying up your inbox needn't take a lot of time if you go about it in the right way.
Deleting all your emails in Gmail is simple – open Gmail, select the inbox tab you want to clear out (Primary, Promotions, etc.) and click the small empty box in the top left corner, just above the Compose button. This will select everything on the current page of your inbox. If you have more than 50 emails then you will also need to click 'Select all XXX conversations in Primary' (XXX will be the total number of emails, while Primary will be Promotions or Social if you're clearing out a different inbox tab).
Now you've selected all your emails click the rubbish bin/trashcan icon to delete all of them. They'll be moved to Gmail's Bin, so you can always head there to get anything you didn't want to delete back. Be warned, Gmail removes items from the Bin after 30 days.
If you don't want to delete all your emails then you can use Gmail search to filter things. If you only want to delete emails you have read then type in:read into Gmail's search bar, then repeat the steps above to select and delete them. To delete all unread emails type in:unread into the search bar.
To delete all emails from a certain sender type from: and then their name or email address. To delete all emails with a certain subject line type subject: and then the subject line of the email or a keyword from it. Filtering down what you want to delete from your inbox is a really good way of quickly cleaning out your inbox without accidentally deleting something important.
