How to find archived emails in Gmail

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We can easily find archived emails in Gmail on computers as well the mobile device.

What are archived emails?

The archived mails are also called as mute mails. We can mark any email as an archive if we do not want to delete it. The archived email will be removed from our inbox.

The archived message can come back to our inbox if someone replies to it.

How to mark an email as archived?

An email can be marked as an archive from computer as well as through Gmail mobile app.

For computer

• Click on the small square box of an email that we want to mark as an archive.
• Click on the archive icon on the top, as shown below:

For Gmail app

• Open the email that we want to mark as an archive.
• Click on the archive icon on the top.

OR

• Swipe the email.

What are the advantages of marking email as archived?

The advantages of archiving emails are listed below:

• It prevents users from losing data.
• An email can be removed from our inbox without deleting it.
• Simplified restore and backup.
• We can better manage our inbox.

Let's start with the steps.

Here, we have archived the message named Javatpoint AB.

Finding Archived emails on Computer

The steps to find archive emails in Gmail on a computer are listed below:

1. Open the Gmail account and login using the Gmail ID and password.
   We can directly use the URL: https://mail.google.com/.
2. We can find the above archived email or message in two ways.
   • Type 'label: all' on the Search bar-> Press Enter. The archived email will appear as the image shown below:
     
     OR
   • Type Javatpoint AB (Name of the sender) on the Search bar and press Enter. The archived email will appear as the image shown below:
     

Finding Archived emails using Gmail mobile app

The steps to find archived emails using Gmail mobile app are similar to finding on the computer, which is listed below:

1. Open the Gmail app.

3. Here also we can find the above archived email or message in two ways.

• Type 'label: all' on the Search bar and click on the search icon on the keyboard. The archived email will appear as the image shown below:
  
  OR
• Type Javatpoint ab on the Search bar and click on the search icon present on the keyboard. The archived email will appear as the image shown below: