How to Delete All Emails in Gmail App

This article covers the steps for how to delete all emails at once in the official Gmail app on iPhone and Android. While it’s impossible to empty your entire Gmail inbox with a single tap in the app, you can delete batches of up to 251 emails at a time and repeat the process until you've deleted as many as you want.

How to Delete All Emails in Gmail App At Once

Here are the steps for emptying your inbox in the Gmail app by deleting multiple emails in batches.

1. Open the Gmail app and repeatedly swipe up to scroll down and load as many emails as possible.
   

   The screen limit upon opening the Gmail app is 50 emails, but if you scroll down as far as you can, that limit should increase to 251 emails.

2. Tap Select all. Every visible email within your inbox will now be selected.

   

3. Tap the Delete icon to delete all of the selected emails.

4. All of the selected emails will now be deleted.
   

   

   An Undo option will appear in the lower-right of the screen for a brief few seconds. If you made a mistake, you can just tap it to undo the above deletion process.

5. Repeat the above steps until all your emails have been deleted from the Gmail app.

How to Delete All Emails in Gmail via a Web Browser

If you have thousands of emails in your inbox and don’t have the time to erase multiple emails in batches on the Gmail app, you can delete all emails at once with just a few clicks within a web browser.

1. Click the Select box next to the Refresh icon at the top of the screen.

   

2. Click the new text link that reads Select all conversations in Inbox. Every single email in your Gmail inbox will now be selected.

   

3. Click the Delete icon.

   

4. Due to the scale of this action, a confirmation message will appear. Click OK to delete all of your emails at once.

   

How to Undelete Multiple Emails in the Gmail App

When you delete an email from your Gmail inbox, it moves to the Gmail Trash folder. All emails within the Trash folder can be moved back to your Inbox at any time within 30 days of the deletion process being performed.

Here’s how to recover multiple emails in the Gmail app.

1. From your Gmail inbox, tap the hamburger menu icon in the top-left corner.

2. Tap Trash.

3. Perform a long-press on an email that you want to undelete.

   

   Gmail is customized based on your location. So, in my case, the Trash is called Bin. Depending on where you're located, it could say Trash or Bin.

4. Tap additional emails to select them.
   

   If you want to restore all emails in the Trash folder, tap Select all.

5. Tap the ellipsis in the top-right corner.

6. Select Move.

7. Tap Inbox.

8. The multiple selected emails will now be moved back to your Gmail inbox.

   

Can I Delete My Gmail Account?

Yes, you can delete your Gmail account and all its emails and associated data. Google has provided an official method for how to delete a Gmail account that only takes a few minutes to perform and protects other aspects of your connected Google account, such as your YouTube account.