How to Delete All Emails on Gmail Android
The Gmail app is the email client of choice for most Android users. Developed by Google, the app makes it extraordinarily easy to access your Gmail inbox, and it also lets you connect your other accounts.
What it doesn’t, unfortunately, make so easy is deleting all emails at once. While you can select multiple emails and delete them all with a single tap, you can’t select all messages in your inbox. To better understand what we mean, let’s take a look at how deleting multiple emails in the Gmail app works:
- Launch the Gmail app.
- Navigate to the folder that contains the messages you wish to delete.
- Tap the icon signifying the sender on the left side of the screen.
- Continue tapping more icons until you’ve selected all emails you want to delete (or at least those that you can see).
- Tap the Delete button.
If you have, let’s say, a thousand emails in your inbox, you would have to tap a thousand icons to select all emails. That’s bad enough as it is, but what if you want to delete all promotional emails and nothing else? Well, that’s impossible with the Gmail app (learn how to delete all promotions in Gmail).
To delete all emails in Gmail in one fell swoop, you need to equip yourself with a third-party bulk email organizer and let it remotely access your inbox. While that may sound complicated, it actually isn’t, and we explain everything you need to know about deleting all emails on Android using third-party cleaning apps later in this article.
Follow our guides on how to delete all unread emails in Gmail at once and how to delete old Gmail emails.
How to Delete All Emails from a Samsung Galaxy Device (Samsung Email)
Samsung users have it great because their Android devices come with a very capable email app that makes it possible to delete all emails at once without much effort. Here’s what you need to do:
- Launch the Email app.
- Navigate to the folder that contains the messages you wish to delete.
- Tap and hold any message in your Inbox to highlight it.
- Tap the small circle labeled "All” to highlight all messages. It will be located in the upper left corner of the screen.
- Tap the Delete button to delete all selected messages.
You can now repeat this process for other folders. Since all deleted email messages are automatically moved to the Trash folder, it’s a good idea to delete its content as well. To do that:
- Launch the Email app and go to your inbox.
- Tap the three horizontal lines in the top-left corner of the screen.
- Tap the "Trash" option to open the Trash.
- Tap and hold any message to highlight it.
- Tap the small circle labeled "All” to highlight all messages. Again, it will be located in the upper left corner of the screen.
- Tap the Delete button to permanently delete all selected messages.
Keep in mind that once email messages are deleted from the Trash folder, they can’t be recovered.
How to Delete All Emails on Android Using Third-Party Cleaning Apps
Okay, so how to delete all emails at once on Android regardless of who the manufacturer of your Android device is? With a third-party cleaning app! Such apps are readily available in the Google Play Store, and their purpose is to analyze your inbox and help it organize you in a way that suits you the most.
Some email cleaning apps are free, and some cost money. As attractive as they are, completely free cleaning apps typically make money by selling their users’ data, so we recommend you use freemium cleaning apps like Clean Email if you value your privacy and don’t want to share your emails with all kinds of third parties.
How to Delete Emails on Android Using Clean Email
As we’ve already said, Clean Email is a smart inbox cleaner that lets you instantly delete an unlimited number of messages at once. It has a native Android app that you can download from the Google Play Store and install on any device running Android 4.4 and up.
What distinguishes Clean Email from other third-party inbox cleaners are its advanced feature and a strong focus on privacy (the app doesn’t keep, sell, or analyze your data).
For example, a feature called Smart Views makes it easy to go through your mail in minutes because it can intelligently group emails by their actual content so that you can view all “Travel,” “Finance,” or, for example, “Social” emails together regardless of whether they’re located in the same folder or not.
If inbox management is not something you want to spend too much time on, you can start by using the Quick Clean feature to focus your attention on the types of messages Clean Email users clean most often. Here’s how it works in practice:
- Install the app on your Android device.
- Connect it with your mail service provider.
- Tap the Quick Clean option.
- Apply an action to each group of emails.
Whenever you apply an action to a group of emails, you get the opportunity to create a rule based on it, which is how you can easily automate the management of your inbox.
Because Clean Email isn’t in the business of selling user data, it has to make money a different way: by selling monthly and yearly subscriptions to unlock unlimited cleaning. This is a win-win solution because it ensures that app users’ personal information remains private while giving Clean Email developers the financial support they need to keep improving their product.
Besides Android, the service is also available as a native iOS app, so you can use it to delete emails on iPhone. Wondering how to delete all emails on Mac? Then you should know that you can download the app’s version for Mac users to help with organizing and cleaning your emails.
How to Delete All Emails at Once on Android - FAQs
How do I mass delete emails on Android?
By far the best way to mass delete emails on Android is to download a third-party inbox cleaner app from the Google Play Store, such as Clean Email. With this app, you can quickly, easily, and securely delete all emails, emails of a certain type, or even individual messages.
How do I delete all Gmail messages at once on Android?
Unfortunately, the Gmail app for Android doesn’t make it possible to delete all messages at once. The solution is to use a third-party inbox cleaner app like Clean Email, which supports all major email services—not just Gmail.
How can I delete my emails all at once?
If you want to delete emails all at once, then we recommend you install a third-party cleaner app like Clean Email. Besides allowing you to wipe your inbox clean with a few simple taps, the app can also automatically manage emails for you thanks to its handy Auto Clean rules and other useful features.
