How to archive email in Gmail

If your Gmail inbox is getting a bit likewise cluttered, there are a couple of options to clean it out. Y'all tin delete emails or merely annal them.

The latter is an exercise in "out of sight, out of mind." The email messages and threads will withal exist on Google's servers — subconscious, but accessible if you know where to look. And if somebody revives an e-mail thread with an unexpected message, the thread will pop back into your main inbox, and so there'due south no risk of missing something of import.

Here'south how to archive emails in Gmail — and where to detect the messages if you lot of a sudden need them.

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How to archive emails in Gmail

one. Find an electronic mail message you want to annal

The get-go step is loading upwards Gmail and finding an electronic mail message or thread you want to annal. This 1 here looks similar a prime candidate.

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2. Highlight the message and select 'Annal'

If you hover your mouse over the electronic mail bulletin, four icons announced on the right-hand side. The leftmost of these, highlighted in the image higher up, is the archive button. Press information technology.

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3. Your email is now archived

If successful, the email will vanish and a notification will announced at the bottom left of the screen, like in the pic above.

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How to find archived emails in Gmail

Merely where has the archived email message or thread gone? Information technology'due south dead easy to observe any missing electronic mail via the search bar if you recall the cardinal terms, simply if not, all is not lost. Here's where archived email goes...

On the navigation bar to the left of your inbox, press the "More than" button highlighted above to see more options.

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Press All Mail from the expanded menu and yous'll run across your full inbox — all archived and non-archived mail mixed together once again.

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iii. Archived postal service can be returned to the inbox

If y'all've made a mistake and want to unarchive an email bulletin or thread, merely click the message or thread from here so press the "Motion to Inbox" icon highlighted higher up. It's the eighth icon from the left and looks like an inbox with a downward arrow in it.