why are my gmail emails going in my all mail folder and not my inbox

There is no prompt asking if that’s what you really want to do. Let me start by pointing out that archiving is configured by default for swiping left or right in the Android app. This is the most inconvenient and unhelpful “feature” I’ve come across in my 30 years in IT. The archive “feature” was in no way thoughtfully implemented by Google engineers are you assert. Yes, you can bulk archive either all or specific emails. Yes, you can bulk delete either all or specific emails. However, you can use other filter criteria to find specific archived email as shown above). You can use in:all filter to view all archived emails (now essentially it includes all emails not just archived ones, You can use in:Trash filter to see all of your deleted emails. You have an option to manually empty your Trash label anytime which will delete those trashed emails permanently.Īrchived Emails are retained forever in your All Mails label unless you either manually select and delete them OR delete them automatically by creating a Gmail filter.

When you archive an email in Gmail, it essentially remove the inbox label from that email which makes it disappear from Inbox, and land in All Mail label.ĭeleted Emails are retained in Trash label for 30 days, after 30 days they are deleted permanently and can not be recovered.

When you delete an email in Gmail, it goes to your Trash label.

Why are my gmail emails going in my all mail folder and not my inbox