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How to Delete All Promotions in Gmail

Key Takeaways
  • To find promotion emails, go to Settings > Defaults on Gmail desktop or Settings > Inbox customization > Inbox categories and toggle on Promotions on a mobile device.
  • Using a filter will automatically delete all future promotions that fit your criteria.

Method 1: Delete All Promotions in Gmail App (Android and iPhone)

You can remove promotion emails from Gmail mobile apps. Since Gmail uses the same UI on Android and iPhone, the steps below will work on both platforms.

Step 1: Open the Gmail app on your phone.

Step 2: Tap the Hamburger icon > select the Promotions menu at the top.

Step 3: Tap the account picture beside each irrelevant email. Repeat the same for all such emails, then select the Delete icon at the top and move them to Bin.

Step 4: Go back to Gmail home > tap the hamburger menu at the top-left corner > select Trash > tap Empty trash now.

Method 2: Delete All Promotions in Gmail on Desktop

You can delete the promotion emails from a desktop browser. Follow the steps below.

Step 1: Visit the Gmail website and click on the Promotions tab.

open promotion tab

Step 2: Click the checkmark at the top > click the Delete icon.

delete emails in promotion tab

Step 3: Select Trash from the left sidebar.

select trash

Step 4: Click a similar checkmark at the top and select Delete Forever.

delete emails forever

Method 3: Auto-Delete Promotions in Gmail Using Filters

If a specific online service spams you with dozens of promotional emails daily, unsubscribe from their list. If you have difficulty unsubscribing, use the steps below to auto-delete such emails in Gmail.

Step 1: Visit Gmail in a web browser.

Step 2: Move to the Promotions tab.

move to promotion tab

Step 3: Open an email.

Step 4: Click the More menu at the top-right corner > select Filter messages like this.

filter messages in gmail

Step 5: It will open the filter menu. Click Create filter.

create a gmail filter

Step 6: Enable the checkmark beside Delete it > click Create filter.

create a filter to auto-delete email

You can create similar rules for all such promotional emails. You can even add words and phrases to auto-delete unwanted emails from your inbox. The possibilities are endless here.

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Last updated on 27 May, 2024

1 Comment

  1. Followed your directions to delete all email in Promotions (157,000 emails). Looks like maybe there were too many because Gmail gave up trying after a while (a minutes or so) and all the selected emails were unselected again. Other Ideas?

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