How to set auto delete in gmail

While there are some third-party tools offering a function to automatically clean older emails in Gmail, the service itself is actually can be worked out to have that specific function.

This hidden method is surprisingly worked really well and you don’t have to pay the premium Google Suite or Google One. All Gmail users can apply the trick easily.

Follow the guide(s) below to enable automatic deletion to older emails in Gmail.

Table of Contents

• 1 How to enable auto-delete old emails in Gmail
  • 1.1 Wait, why I still see older emails?
• 2 How to delete all old emails in Gmail

How to enable auto-delete old emails in Gmail

1. Go to Gmail from your desktop device (not available on Gmail mobile).

2. On the top right area, click Settings and hit See all settings.

3. Now navigate to the Filters and Blocked Addresses tab menu, and click Create a new filter.

4. On the ‘Has the words’ column, type older_than:30d which means I want to delete emails older than 30 days. You may modify the time as you need. The letter ‘d’ stands for days, ‘m’ for months, and ‘y’ for years.

Then hit Create filter.

5. Confirm the setting, click OK.

6. Now, tick the Delete option and click Create filter.

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7. The ‘auto-delete old emails’ filter has been created and will work automatically.

Wait, why I still see older emails?

Yes, there is nothing wrong with that.

The setting is only applied to new incoming emails after the filter created. Existing emails, on the other hand, have to be deleted ‘manually’. But it’s not difficult at all. Just a few clicks and they are moved to the Trash folder.

Check out the guide below

How to delete all old emails in Gmail

1. On the Gmail search bar, type a search parameter of old emails and press Enter. For example, older_than:30d means emails that older than 30 days. You may change the number and parameters as you wish.

2. Then Select all results.

3. Since it only selects the results on that particular page, you need to Select all conversations that match this search for faster selection.

4. Now click the Delete (trash) icon to delete them.

5. If necessary, you may head to the Trash folder, select all trashed emails, and click Delete forever to purge immediately.

If your inbox consuming too much valuable space, consider upgrading the account storage or find large emails in Gmail and delete them for good.

Maybe you signed up for a newsletter ages ago and it just won't let you unsubscribe. Or some store keeps sending you offers. Or that volunteer committee that you helped out once just won't take you off their mailing list.

If you can't get a specific someone to stop emailing you, you can get Gmail to delete those messages from your inbox automatically by setting up a filter.

Here's how.

Step 1: Click on the settings button on the right-hand corner of the page.

Step 2: Click on the Filters tab.

Step 3: Click on "Create new filter" on the bottom of the page.

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