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Deleting emails from your Gmail business relationship is final—they're lost forever once you empty your trash folder. If you want to hide emails, rather than delete them, you can annal the messages instead. This allows you to find and think the emails at a after date.

How to Archive Emails in Gmail

To archive an email in Gmail, y'all but need to select an email (or multiple emails) then click the Archive button.

When you select emails on the Gmail website, the "Archive" button appears in the carte directly to a higher place your list of emails.

Press the Archive button to archive an email in Gmail

In the Gmail app for iPhone, iPad, or Android, tap the Archive button in the top menu that appears. The Archive button has the aforementioned design equally the push button shown on the Gmail website.

Press the Archive button on any selected email to archive emails in the Gmail app

Any e-mail you annal volition disappear from your master Gmail inbox, including from whatever of the focused categories you might accept.

You'll still be able to view them under whatever separate binder y'all create using Gmail labels, however.

Using the All Mail Characterization to Find Archived Emails in Gmail

Equally we've mentioned, archived emails disappear from the typical Gmail view. I option to notice archived emails in Gmail is to switch to the "All Mail" folder view.

This volition listing all of your Gmail emails in one, long list, including priority emails, as well as any emails that have been categorized automatically. Yous can view this list past clicking the "All Mail" view label in the left Gmail menu on the Gmail website.

Press the All Mail tab in Gmail to view all emails, including archived emails

To do this in the Gmail app, tap the hamburger menu icon in the acme-left corner. From here, scroll down and tap the "All Postal service" label.

There'south an obvious downside to this, especially if you have a big number of emails—the sheer number of emails yous'll have to go through. This selection is fine if you've only recently archived an electronic mail, but y'all might need to employ the Gmail search bar to specifically locate archived emails instead.

Finding Archived Emails in Gmail Using the Search Bar

Unfortunately, there'southward no "archive" characterization you can use to search for when you're using the Gmail search bar at the top of the Gmail website or in the Gmail app.

You lot'll need to know the topic, sender, or field of study of your archived email to search for it manually. Alternatively, you can use avant-garde Gmail search filters to search for emails that aren't in typical folders like your inbox folder, sent folder, and drafts folder.

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In many cases, this should list your archived emails. To do this, type "-in:Sent -in:Typhoon -in:Inbox" in the search bar. You tin do this in either the Gmail app or on the Gmail website.

Yous can also add the "has:nouserlabels" to your Gmail search query to remove any emails that already have a category label. If they're categorized, yous tin view the email in your labeled folder, even if they've been archived.

Type "-in:Sent -in:Draft -in:Inbox has:nouserlabels

This method isn't foolproof, just it should help y'all narrow down your archived emails if you lot're struggling to find them using a bones search or in the "All Mail" folder.