Newsletters are a dime a dozen, and most become more of a nuisance than something you look forward to seeing pop up in your inbox. Sometimes you subscribe to one newsletter and unknowingly get added to several others, turning unsubscribing into an even bigger headache. It’s not a good look for anyone.
If you’re a Gmail user, Google has created a feature to address this head-on. Managing your email subscriptions — and decluttering your inbox — has never been easier.
It wasn’t too hard to unsubscribe from newsletters before Google launched this feature, but you couldn’t do it for multiple subscriptions at once. Now, bulk unsubscribing only takes a few taps.
Below, I’ll show you where to find the feature on the web or the mobile app 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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