{"id":22089,"date":"2017-05-22T16:46:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T11:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/?p=22089"},"modified":"2017-05-22T16:46:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T11:16:18","slug":"how-to-block-email-address-in-gmail-on-web-or-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/how-to-block-email-address-in-gmail-on-web-or-android\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Block Email Address in Gmail on Web or Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emails are something we all go through in our everyday lives and with regards to email services, Gmail is without a doubt the most famous service out there. However,\u00a0you should\u00a0come across several unwanted emails every day, emails from spammers and even stalkers, who decline to leave.\u00a0The great news is, you can block email addresses on Gmail. So, with no further ado,\u00a0<strong><em>here are the steps to block senders in Gmail from the web and Android app:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4 id=\"block-an-email-address-in-gmail-web\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Block an Email Address in Gmail Web<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Blocking an email address in Gmail\u2019s web client is fairly easy.\u00a0Here\u2019s how to do it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First,<strong>open up Gmail<\/strong>on your preferred browser and\u00a0<strong>log in to your account<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Once you are logged in, go to an email from the sender you want to block. Then,<strong>hit the button beside the Reply button<\/strong>. From the options, click on the \u201c<strong>Block &lt;Sender\u2019s Name&gt;<\/strong>\u201d option.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22131\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Block-Email-Address-Gmail-Web.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Block-Email-Address-Gmail-Web.png 640w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Block-Email-Address-Gmail-Web-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Block-Email-Address-Gmail-Web-215x120.png 215w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n[ad type=&#8221;banner&#8221;]\n<ul>\n<li>Then, click \u201c<strong>Block<\/strong>\u201d again to confirm that you indeed want to block the email address on Gmail.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22132\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Block-Senders-Gmail-Web.png\" alt=\"Block-Senders-Gmail-Web\" width=\"640\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Block-Senders-Gmail-Web.png 640w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Block-Senders-Gmail-Web-300x146.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Emails from blocked email address will go into the<strong>spam folder<\/strong>from now on, so you can be at peace.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 id=\"unblock-email-address-in-gmail-web\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Unblock Email Address in Gmail Web<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>If you have managed to accidentally block an email address in Gmail, here\u2019s how you can\u00a0unblock it in Gmail web.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open up Gmail in the browser and log in to your account. Then, go to<strong>Gmail Settings<\/strong>by clicking on settings cog icon on the right.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22135\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Gmail-Settings-Web.png\" alt=\"Gmail-Settings-Web\" width=\"267\" height=\"232\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the Settings page, go to the \u201c<strong>Filters and Blocked Addresses<\/strong>\u201d tab. Here, you will find all the email addresses you have blocked and you can\u00a0batch unblock them or unblock\u00a0them one by one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22134\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Gmail-Filters-and-Blocked-Addresses-.png\" alt=\"Gmail-Filters-and-Blocked-Addresses-\" width=\"640\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Gmail-Filters-and-Blocked-Addresses-.png 640w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Gmail-Filters-and-Blocked-Addresses--300x157.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can also unblock an email address by going to their email and hitting the same button besides Reply and clicking \u201c<strong>Unblock &lt;Sender\u2019s Name&gt;<\/strong>\u201c.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Unblock-Email-Address-Gmail-Web.png\" alt=\"Unblock-Email-Address-Gmail-Web\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Unblock-Email-Address-Gmail-Web.png 640w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Unblock-Email-Address-Gmail-Web-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Unblock-Email-Address-Gmail-Web-470x264.png 470w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Unblock-Email-Address-Gmail-Web-215x120.png 215w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Unblock-Email-Address-Gmail-Web-414x232.png 414w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n[ad type=&#8221;banner&#8221;]\n<p>In the Filters and Blocked Addresses page, you can even\u00a0<strong>set up filters<\/strong>\u00a0to ensure that emails with certain subjects, or words, land up in\u00a0the spam folder.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22133\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Gmail-Filters.png\" alt=\"Gmail-Filters\" width=\"505\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Gmail-Filters.png 505w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Gmail-Filters-300x207.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 id=\"block-and-unblock-email-address-in-gmail-app-on-android\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong>Block and Unblock Email Address in Gmail app on Android<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>You can even block email senders\u00a0in the Gmail app on Android. Here\u2019s how to do it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open the<strong>Gmail app<\/strong>and\u00a0open up the\u00a0<strong>email from the sender<\/strong>\u00a0you want to block.<\/li>\n<li>Then, tap on the<strong>three dot menu button besides the\u00a0Reply button<\/strong>. From the options, tap on \u201c<strong>Block &lt;Sender\u2019s Name&gt;<\/strong>\u201c.<\/li>\n<li>The sender will then be blocked and the messages from the blocked email address will land in spam.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Block-Email-Address-Gmail-App-Android.png\" alt=\"Block-Email-Address-Gmail-App-Android\" width=\"640\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Block-Email-Address-Gmail-App-Android.png 640w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Block-Email-Address-Gmail-App-Android-300x264.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To unblock an email address in the Gmail application, you can just open the blocked sender\u2019s email, hit the same three-dot button as above and tap on \u201c<strong>Unblock &lt;Sender\u2019s Name&gt;<\/strong>\u201c.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Unblock-Email-Address-Gmail-App-Android.png\" alt=\"Unblock-Email-Address-Gmail-App-Android\" width=\"640\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Unblock-Email-Address-Gmail-App-Android.png 640w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Unblock-Email-Address-Gmail-App-Android-300x264.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n[ad type=&#8221;banner&#8221;]\n<h4 id=\"easily-block-senders-in-gmail-to-stop-annoying-emails\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Easily Block Senders in Gmail to Stop Annoying Emails<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Well,\u00a0those were the easy ways through which you can block emails from someone in Gmail. Sadly, the Gmail app\u00a0on iOS does not let you block an email address but you can always do it from Gmail\u2019s web portal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Block Email Address in Gmail on Web or Android &#8211; Mobile &#8211; Emails are something we all go through in our everyday lives and with regards to email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1791,46018],"tags":[64745,64741,64722,64730,64740,64736,64735,64748,64743,64742,64746,64733,64734,64747,64729,64731,64727,64728,64744,64732,64723,64737,64739,64749,64738,64725,64726,64721,64750,64724],"class_list":["post-22089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","category-mobile","tag-block-email-in-gmail","tag-gmail-block","tag-how-to-block-a-contact-in-gmail","tag-how-to-block-a-mail-id-in-gmail","tag-how-to-block-a-person-in-gmail","tag-how-to-block-email-id","tag-how-to-block-email-id-in-gmail","tag-how-to-block-emails","tag-how-to-block-emails-in-gmail","tag-how-to-block-emails-on-gmail","tag-how-to-block-gmail","tag-how-to-block-gmail-account","tag-how-to-block-gmail-id","tag-how-to-block-in-gmail","tag-how-to-block-mail","tag-how-to-block-mail-id-in-gmail","tag-how-to-block-mails-in-gmail","tag-how-to-block-mails-on-gmail","tag-how-to-block-on-gmail","tag-how-to-block-someone-on-gmail","tag-how-to-block-unwanted-emails","tag-how-to-block-unwanted-emails-in-gmail","tag-how-to-block-unwanted-mails-in-gmail","tag-how-to-stop-unwanted-mail","tag-how-to-stop-unwanted-mails-in-gmail","tag-how-to-unsubscribe-from-gmail","tag-how-to-unsubscribe-in-gmail","tag-keyword-how-to-block-an-email-address-in-gmail","tag-spam-blocker","tag-unwanted-emails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}