What is Auto Unsubscribe?
When you receive many promotional emails, newsletters, and marketing messages, these can all clutter your inbox making it hard to find the messages you need. Luckily, most email service providers give you a way to unsubscribe from these types of messages, usually in the form of a button or link.
While the term “auto unsubscribe” sounds like a way to automatically remove your email address from mailing lists rather than take action yourself, there really is no such tool or dedicated auto unsubscribe app. No matter which email provider or client application you use, you must take some sort of action to request removal from an email list.
Once you do, the service provider sends a request to the sender asking for the removal of your address from their list. In the end, you must hope the sender honors the request and that the messages stop flooding your inbox.
We’ll explain how to unsubscribe in Gmail and Outlook to get that process rolling. We’ll then describe the Unsubscriber feature in Clean Email and how it provides more options, flexibility, and availability than the other email applications.
How to Auto Unsubscribe in Gmail
If you’re a Gmail user, you can use the Gmail Unsubscribe button to remove yourself from mailing lists. This is the closest thing to a Gmail auto unsubscribe option.
- Visit Gmail on the web and select the email.
- Click the Unsubscribe button at the top of the message, above the header. If you don’t see the button, then Gmail has not determined that the email is part of a mailing list.
- In the subsequent pop-up window, select one of the following:
- Unsubscribe: This sends a request to the sender to remove you from their list.
- Go to website: This directs you to the sender’s website to complete the removal process.
- Optionally, click Move to spam which appears at the top of the email after you use the button. This moves future messages from that sender to your Spam folder while your request processes.
💡 Note: Gmail doesn’t allow you to see all your subscriptions in one place, so you need to opt out from them manually, one by one. Instead, you can use Clean Email on the web or mobile to mass unsubscribe from Gmail messages.
How to Auto Unsubscribe in Outlook
Use Outlook instead of Gmail? You can use a similar option to mimic an Outlook auto unsubscribe process.
- Visit Outlook.com or open Outlook on your desktop or mobile device and select the message.
- Select the Unsubscribe button or link, depending on which version you’re using, at the top of the message. Like Gmail, if Outlook hasn’t identified the email is from a mailing list, you won’t see the option.
- Confirm in the pop-up window.
📌 Tip: You can select Manage Subscriptions next to Unsubscribe in Outlook (not available on mobile) to remove yourself from additional mailing lists one at a time. On your mobile device, you can use Clean Email to manage subscription messages and multiple mailing lists at once—and on any device!
How to Auto Unsubscribe in Clean Email
As mentioned above, Clean Email offers the Unsubscriber feature which provides flexibility and options beyond Gmail and Outlook thus better simulating email auto unsubscribe. Plus, the feature is available in the web, desktop, and mobile app versions.
- Open the app and select Unsubscriber in the menu. Note that you’ll see the number of subscriptions you have right in the menu.
- You can then view all subscription emails on the right grouped by sender.
Do one of the following, depending on if you want to remove your email address from one or more subscription lists:- Click Unsubscribe to the right of a message group.
- Click Select at the top, mark each message group, and pick Unsubscribe at the bottom.
- Click Select and then Select All to mark all message groups. Pick Unsubscribe at the bottom.
- Optionally turn on the toggle in the pop-up window for Move existing messages to Trash and select Confirm to complete the process and prompt the removal request.
Any future messages you receive from that sender go to your Trash folder automatically. You do not have to take any additional action to stop future emails from reaching your inbox.
Advanced unsubscribe features in Clean Email
Along with the ability to opt out from messages in bulk, Clean Email provides the following features for more advanced control over your subscriptions.
Sort subscription emails
You may only want to remove yourself from specific email lists. Select Unsubscriber in the menu and then use the Sort drop-down menu at the top to sort by newest, number of messages, email address, or name.
You can then easily unsubscribe from those messages as described earlier.
Unsubscribe ahead of time
Want to manage subscription emails before they even reach your inbox? Select Screener in the menu and you’ll see the Unsubscribe option to the right of those messages identified from a mailing list.
By unsubscribing in the Screener area, those emails never land in your inbox!
Pause subscriptions
Maybe you don’t want to stop a subscription altogether but just pause it for a short time. Select Unsubscriber in the menu, click the arrow next to Unsubscribe, and choose Pause.
When you’re ready to resume receiving the emails, select Paused at the top of the Unsubscriber section and choose Unblock next to the message.
Resubscribe to emails
Remove yourself from a mailing list by mistake or change your mind? It’s no problem in Clean Email because you can simply resubscribe.
Select Unsubscriber in the menu and then Unsubscribed at the top. Click Unblock to the right of the message you want to resubscribe to, and their future emails will arrive in your inbox again.
💡 Note: Along with the above features on all devices, Clean Email offers robust mailbox management tools and is committed to your privacy and security.
Wrap-Up
Receiving too many emails is a situation most of us must deal with daily. To minimize the number of messages you have to manage, consider unsubscribing from those you no longer want.
And remember, Clean Email provides features that mimic an auto unsubscribe tool more closely than any other inbox management application.
