Sorting your messages on a PC or smartphone can waste a lot of time. Fortunately, Gmail offers several ways to sort and delete your messages faster.
Gmail: How to delete your emails faster in the web version
The web version of Gmail is undoubtedly best suited for deleting and sorting many messages instantly:
- Go to your mailbox by clicking this link
- The little square to the left of each line lets you control the messages you want to delete (or sort).
- Once your messages are selected, click the trash at the top of your email list to delete them.
The box at the top left of the section where your emails are listed also allows you to select multiple messages without having to search through the pages. So you can directly select all messages read, unread or starred. A handy option for selecting thousands of messages at once. Also, this is the box you should use if you want to delete all your messages in Gmail.
Gmail: Delete your messages faster on Android and iOS
By default in the Android and iOS app, your messages are simply archived when you swipe an email. However, scanning can be reconfigured to cause messages to be deleted.
Delete messages faster on Android
To actually delete your emails faster in the Android app:
- Go to the three horizontal lines in the upper left and then Settings > General Settings > Default Gmail Actions
- Change the behavior of swiping right and left so that they delete messages instead of archiving them
- In your mailbox, you can now swipe to delete your messages.
Delete messages faster on iOS
To delete your messages faster via the Gmail app on iOS:
- Go to the three horizontal lines in the upper left
- enter inside Settings and tap on your email address
- enter inside Action for processed messages and choose Move to trash
- You can now swipe to delete your emails