Sort your emails into different inbox tabs, such as Social or Promotions. When you open Gmail, you won't have to see all of your emails at once.
Add or remove categories
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Gmail app .
- At the top left, tap Menu Settings .
- Under 'Inbox', tap Inbox customisations Inbox categories.
- Add or remove categories.
Move messages
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Gmail app .
- Open the message. (If you want to stay in your inbox, tap the sender's profile image.)
- In the top right, tap More Move to.
- Tap a new category.
If you use the default inbox layout, any messages you mark with a star will show up in your Primary category, along with any category they were in before.
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Gmail app .
- From your inbox, or inside the message, tap Star .
Change notifications for each category
You can choose different notifications for each category. Learn more about notifications.
Check the number of messages in your inbox
In Gmail, replies to a message are grouped into conversations. In your inbox, you'll see the number of conversations you have, but not the number of messages.
Follow these steps to see how many messages are in your inbox:
- On your computer, open Gmail. You can't find your total number of messages from the Gmail app.
- In the top right, click Settings Settings.
- Scroll down to the 'Conversation view' section.
- Select Conversation view off.
- At the bottom of the page, click Save changes.
- Go back to your inbox to see the number of messages that you have. If you have different sections or categories, make sure that you add together the number from each section.
- When you've finished, go back to Settings and turn on 'Conversation view'.
I can't turn on inbox categories
If you have more than 250,000 messages in your inbox, you won't be able to turn on inbox categories.
To get below this limit, you can archive or delete messages.