Newsletters are a bit of a double-edged sword. You’re initially excited to sign up, but they can quickly turn into something you actively ignore if you’re receiving too many unwanted emails. There’s also a good chance that you have multiple newsletters and subscriptions that do this, creating a messy pile of messages in your inbox.
Google addressed this head-on with a feature that aims to declutter your inbox and manage your email subscriptions easily.
Before Google launched the feature, you could unsubscribe from a newsletter with one tap, but that also meant that you needed to wait until you received an email to unsubscribe from it or track down an old one. Now, you can unsubscribe from multiple newsletters all at once, in just a few taps or clicks.
Below, I’ll show you where to find the Manage Subscriptions feature in both the app and on the web and how to use it.
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Where to find the new Manage Subscriptions feature in the Gmail app
The new Manage Subscriptions feature is tucked into the sidebar of the Gmail app.
Before you can use the feature, you should check to see if you have it first.
- Open the Gmail app on your iPhone or Android phone
- Tap the menu bar at the top left (three stacked lines)
If you have the feature, Manage Subscriptions should be below the Trash section.
Where to find Manage Subscriptions in Gmail for the web
- Log in to Gmail from a web browser
- On the left, click More
- Click on Manage Subscriptions
The feature is currently rolling out to the web, Android and iPhones in select countries, so you might need to wait a bit if you don’t have the new view just yet.
How to manage subscriptions from the new view
Once you arrive at the Manage Subscriptions section, a list of the newsletters you’re currently subscribed to will be displayed, sorted by the most frequent senders and the number of emails they’ve sent in the past few weeks.
Tapping directly on the sender name will bring up the most recent emails received, and you can easily unsubscribe by tapping the icon to the right of the name, which looks like an email with a minus sign “-” in front of it.
Gmail will send an unsubscribe email to the newsletter you no longer want to receive.
Once you’ve tapped that unsubscribe icon, Gmail will ask if you want to stop receiving emails from the sender. Once you tap unsubscribe, an email will go to the sender notifying them of the unsubscribe request.
It can take a few days for the sender to honor the request, but going forward, all emails sent by them should be sent to your Spam folder.
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