How to unsubscribe from emails in Gmail
Stop newsletters and marketing email for good, one sender at a time or many at once.
The Unsubscribe link at the top
Open an email from the sender. If Gmail recognizes it as a mailing list, an Unsubscribe link appears next to the sender's name. Click it and confirm. Gmail sends the request for you.
Manage subscriptions
Gmail on the web and in the app has a Manage subscriptions view in the left menu, listing senders that email you often, with an unsubscribe button on each.
When there is no link
Scroll to the bottom of the email and look for "unsubscribe" or "email preferences" in small print. Legitimate senders must offer one.
When unsubscribing does not work
Some senders ignore it, and some spam treats a click as proof your address is real. For those:
- Open the email.
- Click the three dots, then Block "sender", or Filter messages like these and choose Delete it.
Clear the old ones too
Unsubscribing stops new email. To remove what is already there, search from:sender@example.com, select all, and delete or archive. See how to delete more than 50 emails in Gmail.
How to do this in Perfect Mail
One sender: open the email, then More actions and Unsubscribe, or press ⌘U. On an email in the list, ⌘U unsubscribes and moves it out of your inbox in one go.
All of them at once: open Settings and choose Unsubscribe. You get every newsletter and mailing list that has written to you in the last six months, in one list, with an unsubscribe button on each.
Clear what is already there: Open Settings, choose Mass archive, and pick a date under Archive everything before. Perfect Mail tells you about how many emails that is. Click Review archive, confirm, and it runs in the background while you keep working. Everything it moves stays in Done (All mail in Gmail), so search still finds it.