How to Delete all Emails at once on Android

Do you get several unwanted emails in your account? Relax, you are not the single one. If your inbox contains many unwanted emails and you are looking for the process to delete all emails at once on your Android, here you will see some magic tricks.

There is a drawback of the Gmail app; it doesn't have an option to delete all the emails at one click on Android. We have to select one by one from the email list to remove them.

There is no such option in Emails to delete all messages at once on Android phones. However, you can delete a large number of emails in one go using a web browser. This feature is directly not available on a mobile browser and Gmail app. But there are some tricks and settings that help you delete many emails even on Android devices, which are listed below.

Delete a large number of Emails using a Web browser on a PC

Generally, people prefer to search mails on the search box, and they delete them as:

1. Find the emails you want to delete using various ways that Gmail offers (label, unread, etc.):
   • Search for email based on date as before: 2018/05/01 in the top search bar; also, you can use other parameters such as has: attachment, category: social, etc. or
   • Navigate to the label such as label: updates you want to delete or
   • Select the label All to remove all emails.
2. Click on the link "Select all ... conversations..." that appears on the current page if you have more emails to delete.
3. Click the Delete button to delete all selected emails. It will move your deleted emails to the Trash folder.
   

To completely delete your emails go to the Trash folder and click on the link Empty Trash now.

Note: Keep in mind that this action cannot be reversible. Once you delete emails from the Trash folder, you never get them back.

How to Delete All Gmail Emails at Once on Android Using Chrome browser app

Deleting all Gmail Emails on an Android device using a Chrome browser is the same as deleting all Gmail Emails on PC. Here's what you need to do are:

1. Launch your Chrome browser app on your Android phone.
2. Visit gmail.com if Google suggests opening it on the Gmail app, ignoring it, and use the web (browser) version.
3. Sign in with your Google credentials.
4. When you arrive at the inbox, tap on the menu icon present at the upper-left of the screen. Clicking on the menu opens the list of options, including inbox, labels, and more.
   
5. Scroll down the menu options, and you will see the Desktop link at the bottom, click on it.
   
6. Click on the HTML version if you prefer otherwise go-to standard.
7. Now, look at the desktop version of Gmail on your Android phone.
8. Scroll down the screen up to the bottom and click on the standard link to view Gmail in standard view.
   
9. If you want to delete email from social sites like Facebook, type "Facebook" in the search bar, and you will see all emails containing Facebook appear. You can also use Gmail search operators such as label: personal, label: unread, label: important to show specific emails based on category.
10. To delete the inbox messages as a whole, checkmark the selector box (just below the search button), and it will select 50 mails by default at once. Now tap on the Trash button to delete the selected 50 mails at once.
    
11. To display 100 mails in your inbox, tap on the Settings icon and then tap on Settings.
    
12. On the General settings tab, look for the Maximum page size, change its number to 100. Now, it displays 100 mails in your Gmail inbox.
    
13. Return to your inbox, and now you can delete 100 emails at once.

How to Delete All Gmail Emails at Once Using Microsoft Outlook

As the name indicates, Microsoft Outlook was developed by Microsoft, with almost the same features as Google's Gmail. Here, we will see how to select all emails at once on Outlook for deleting them. Here are the steps to delete all emails at once on Android using Outlook:

1. Download and install the Outlook app on your Android phone from Play Store.
2. Open the app and click on Get started.
3. Select your Gmail account to continue.
4. Check your selected email, or add an account, then allow permission to access your mails.
5. Skip the screen until you reach the inbox.
6. If the mailbox doesn't display anything so far, tap on the LOAD MORE MESSAGE.
7. At the left of the filter button, you have two choices: "focused" and "other", tap on "other" to display emails in detail.
8. Wait for a few moments to load all emails successfully.
9. Tap on the menu icon (three-dots) that you will find at the upper-right corner of the screen.
10. From the list of options, tap "select all."
11. Now, click on the delete button to delete all Gmail emails at once.

How to Delete All Gmail Emails at Once Using MyMail

The MyMail app's advantage is that it allows choosing emails based on categories like unread email, an email with a flag, or an email containing an attachment. However, a disadvantage of using this app is that you have to load all emails by scrolling until the last email appears on the screen. For this, you need a fast and stable internet connection.

1. Download and install the MyMail app on your Android device.
2. Open the application.
3. Now, select Google (using Gmail) under the "add your email" section.
4. Enter the Gmail account you want to use or add a new account.
5. Give access to Mymail app.
6. Wait for a few seconds until the inbox messages appear.
7. To load all emails, scroll down until the last email appears.
8. Press and hold the lowest email you have in your inbox.
9. Tap on the menu icon (three-dots) available in the upper-right corner of the screen.
10. Now, select the "select all" option.
11. Tap on the menu again.
12. Finally, tap on the delete option to delete all Gmail emails at once.
13. Wait for a few moments until the synchronization process gets complete.

How to Delete all Emails from Samsung Galaxy Device (Samsung Email)

It is great for Samsung users as their Android devices come with a very proficient email app. That email app makes it possible to delete all email messages in one go without much attempt. What will you have for this:

1. Launch your Email app on a Samsung smartphone.
2. Visit the folder that contains the emails you want to delete.
3. Press and hold any email from your inbox to highlight it.
4. Click on the small circle labeled with "All" to select all email messages. You will find this option at the top-left of the screen.
5. Now, click on the Delete button to delete all selected emails.

Similarly, you can repeat the above process for other folders. As the deleted email messages are automatically moved to the trash folder, it is good to delete Trash contains to delete messages permanently. Follow the below steps to delete messages from the Trash folder:

1. Navigate to the inbox section in your Email app.
2. Tap on the menu icon (three lines) present at the upper-left of the screen.
3. Click on the "Trash" option to open the Trash screen.
4. Press and hold any email to highlight it.
5. Click on the small circle labeled with "All" to select all email messages. Similar to the above, you will find this option at the upper-left of the screen.
6. Now, click on the Delete button to permanently delete all selected emails from Trash also.

Always remember that once you delete your messages from the Trash folder, you can't be able to recover them.

Delete All Emails on Android devices using third-party mail cleaning apps

Regardless of your Android device model, there are alternate options to delete all emails at once o your Android phone. There are third-party cleaning apps that allow deleting all emails at once. You will find such apps at Google Play Store. The purpose of a third-party cleaning apps is to analyze your inbox and help you to manage your emails.

Note: Always be careful about downloading and using such apps. Because several free cleaning apps make money by selling users' data. So it is recommended to use any trusted and freemium cleaning apps (with your own risk).

One such trusted third-party cleaning app is Clean Email, which claims that it values your privacy and doesn't sell any user's data to third parties.

Delete all emails at once on Android using the Clean Email app

Clean Email is a smart inbox cleaner tool that facilitates the deletion of an unlimited number of email messages instantly at once. You can download it from Google Play Store and run it on a device running on Android 4.4 and above. Clean Email app claims that they never store, sell, or analyze your data; they focus on users' privacy.

The app contains a Smart Views feature that easily categorizes your email based on their actual content like "Social", "Travel," or "Finance," regardless of the folder they are located or not.

If you don't want to spend much more time on your inbox, you can directly use its Quick Clean feature. Quick Clean feature focuses your attention towards the types of messages that app users are mostly clean.

Follow the steps below to manage your email messages using Clean Email:

1. Download and install Clear Email on your Android smartphone.
2. Connect it with your Email service provider.
3. Click on the Quick Clean option.
4. Now, perform the task you want on each group of emails.

When you perform an action on a group of emails, the app creates rules based on your job performance. It makes your feature task easy to inbox management.