{"id":33422,"date":"2020-03-16T22:54:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T17:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/?p=33422"},"modified":"2020-03-16T22:54:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T17:24:27","slug":"how-to-find-archived-emails-in-gmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/how-to-find-archived-emails-in-gmail\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Find Archived Emails in Gmail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deleting emails from your Gmail account is final lost forever once you empty your trash folder hide emails, rather than delete them, you can archive the messages instead. To find and retrieve the emails at a later date.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"how-to-archive-emails-in-gmail\">How to Archive Emails in Gmail<\/h2>\n<p>To archive an email in Gmail, you simply need to select an email and then click the Archive button.<\/p>\n<p>When you select emails on the\u00a0Gmail website, the \u201cArchive\u201d button appears in the menu directly above your list of emails.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-660352 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/xGmail-Archive-Email.png.pagespeed.gp+jp+jw+pj+ws+js+rj+rp+rw+ri+cp+md.ic.KY5SQHrQRR.jpg\" alt=\"Press the Archive button to archive an email in Gmail\" width=\"465\" height=\"249\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the Gmail app for\u00a0iPhone,\u00a0iPad, or\u00a0Android, tap the Archive button in the top menu that appears.\u00a0The Archive button has the same design as the button shown on the Gmail website.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-660354 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/xArchive-Button-Gmail-App.png.pagespeed.gp+jp+jw+pj+ws+js+rj+rp+rw+ri+cp+md.ic.e6aa-lef8R.png\" alt=\"Press the Archive button on any selected email to archive emails in the Gmail app\" width=\"324\" height=\"235\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Any email you archive will disappear from your main Gmail inbox, including from any of the focused categories you might have.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"using-the-all-mail-label-to-find-archived-emails-in-gmail\">Using the All Mail Label to Find Archived Emails in Gmail<\/h2>\n<p>Archived emails disappear from the typical Gmail view. One option to find archived emails in Gmail is to switch to the \u201cAll Mail\u201d folder view.<\/p>\n<p>This will list all of your Gmail emails in one, long list, including priority emails, as well as any emails that have been categorized automatically. You can view this list by clicking the \u201c<strong>All Mail<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0view label\u00a0in the left Gmail menu on the Gmail website.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-660357 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/xGmail-All-Mail-Tab.png.pagespeed.gp+jp+jw+pj+ws+js+rj+rp+rw+ri+cp+md.ic.qJ6IJYGLAo.jpg\" alt=\"Press the All Mail tab in Gmail to view all emails, including archived emails\" width=\"258\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To do this in the Gmail app, tap the hamburger menu icon in the top-left corner. From here, scroll down and tap the \u201cAll Mail\u201d label.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-660360 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Gmail-App-All-Mail-Tab-edit.png\" alt=\"Click the hamburger menu, then press the All Mail tab in the Gmail app\" width=\"329\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Obvious downside to this, especially if you have a large number of emails the sheer number of emails you\u2019ll have to go through. This option is fine if you\u2019ve only recently archived an email, but you might need to use the Gmail search bar to specifically locate archived emails instead.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"finding-archived-emails-in-gmail-using-the-search-bar\">Finding Archived Emails in Gmail Using the Search Bar<\/h2>\n<p>Unfortunately, there\u2019s no \u201carchive\u201d label you can use to search for when you\u2019re using the Gmail search bar at the top of the Gmail website or in the Gmail app.<\/p>\n<p>The topic, sender, or subject of your archived email to search for it manually. Alternatively, you can use advanced Gmail search filters\u00a0to search for emails that aren\u2019t in typical folders like your inbox folder, sent folder, and drafts folder.<\/p>\n<p>In many cases, this should list your archived emails. To do this, type \u201c<strong>-in:Sent -in:Draft -in:Inbox<\/strong>\u201d in the search bar. You can do this in either the Gmail app or on the Gmail website.<\/p>\n<p>You can also add the <strong>\u201chas:nouserlabels<\/strong>\u201d to your Gmail search query to remove any emails that already have a category label. If they\u2019re categorized, you can view the email in your labeled folder, even if they\u2019ve been archived.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-660365 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Gmail-Search-Bar-Archive-Search.png\" alt=\"Type &quot;-in:Sent -in:Draft -in:Inbox has:nouserlabels\u201d in the search bar in Gmail to find archived emails\" width=\"523\" height=\"246\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This method isn\u2019t foolproof, but it should help you narrow down your archived emails if you\u2019re struggling to find them using a basic search or in the \u201cAll Mail\u201d folder.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nextup\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deleting emails from your Gmail account is final lost forever once you empty your trash folder hide emails, rather than delete them, you can archive the messages instead. To find and retrieve the emails at a later date. How to Archive Emails in Gmail To archive an email in Gmail, you simply need to select [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86864],"tags":[86915,25728,86876,86875],"class_list":["post-33422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to","tag-archived-emails-in-gmail","tag-create-gmail","tag-find-archived-emails","tag-find-gmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33422","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}