The Gmail storage starts to fill up with emails as soon as you have signed up everywhere using your Google account. In certain situations, if you are too low on space, you won’t even get new email alerts. This guide will help you clean up your Gmail space when you are in dire need of Google account space.
Why Gmail storage fills up so quickly?
The implications of signing in everywhere using your Google account can not be felt in one day or a week. Once you are signed up on a website, or an app, they start to send you all sorts of emails. The number of emails starts to increase on a daily basis as you sign up to more services. This creates a humongous amount of emails in your inbox. Add the number and size of attachments of these sent emails quickly eats up the little bit of free space that you have left on your Google account.
Google already has placed this policy where you can’t receive any new emails if your entire Google One storage free quota is exhausted. Now, if you are on emergency and needs a quick clean up for an important email to get in, this guide will be of immense help.
How to clear up the Gmail Storage quickly?
Deleting one mails or all email messages via traditional methods takes a time. If you are dealing with a huge quantity of emails, it will take an absurd amount of time to clear up even a few MBs worth of space. In that case, this method will help you ~
Step 1 – At first, load up a new tab on the browser. Or, directly go to the Google One.
Step 2 – Make sure you are using the correct Google account. Or, else, you can manage that from the right-hand pane.
Step 3 – Once you are in the landing page of the Google One portal, tap the “Clean up space” option.
Step 4 – Scroll down to go to the ‘Clean up by service’ portal. Tap to load up the “Gmail” settings.
Step 5 – On the following page, there are many parameters that you can apply to sort out the email files that is covering quite a space.
Step 6 – So, make sure the “Email with attachments” option there.
Step 7 – Select the email messages with huge attachment files together and, tap “Delete” to remove all the email messages from your account.
Step 8 – You will get additonal sorting options to find the bigger email messages in there. Like, you can use the ‘Larger than 20 MB’ filter or ’10 MB to 20 MB’ filter to filter out email messages.
This way, you may delete some of the big email messages in your Gmail inbox and carve out some of precious storage from there.
Hope this helps!