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Quick way to delete emails, using your Phone

You may prefer to read and respond to your emails on the computer, but the phone has a great way to easily delete unwanted emails. It feels almost like a game and you can get rid of dozens of unwanted emails in just a minute. Got a minute with nothing to do? Clean out your inbox by swiping emails left or right.

This is just for the Gmail app. 

Try it now

• Make sure you're using the Gmail app. Open it and you'll be seeing the emails in your inbox. 
  
• Find an email message that you want gone and drag it toward the left. Do you see a Red color and a trashcan icon? Or do you see a green color and the archive icon?
• Try swiping a message to the right. Is the color red? 

Check your settings

Personally, I only use this for deleting emails so I want it to delete whether I swipe it off to the right or to the left. I can set it accordingly:

• Open the Gmail app and tap the 3-line menu at the top left
• Scroll down to Settings
• iPhone:
  • Inbox Customizations
  • Mail Swipe actions
  • Tap “Right Swipe” and choose what you want to happen
  • Tap “Left Swipe” and choose what you want to happen
• Android:
• General Settings
• Swipe Actions
• Tap “Change” for Right swipe and choose what you want to happen
• Tap “Change” for Left swipe and choose what you want to happen

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