What is a Gmail archive?

If you want to clean your inbox without deleting the email messages, you can use the Gmail archive feature. When you archive an email, Gmail removes it from your inbox folder. Archiving the emails is different from deleting them. When you delete an email, you lose it permanently once you empty your trash or bin folder. Hence, you cannot retrieve the deleted emails. On the other hand, archived emails can be retrieved easily but many people do not know how to retrieve archived emails.

How to use the Gmail archive feature

In this post we will explain here the following:

1] How to archive emails in Gmail

Archiving the email messages in Gmail is very simple. The following steps will help you with that:

2] How to find archived emails in Gmail

Unfortunately, there is no archived mail folder in Gmail. Hence, many users do not know where the archived emails go in Gmail.

You can easily find all the archived emails by following the below-listed steps: You can also use the Gmail search feature to find the archived emails in your account. Simply click on the search bar of Gmail and type the keywords related to the archived email that you are searching for. If the archived email is older and you do not remember the related keywords, type the following text in the Gmail search box and press enter. It will show you all the archived emails along with the emails with no labels. Tip: You can make Gmail open the next email automatically using Auto-Advance feature.

3] How to retrieve archived email in Gmail

The following steps will guide you on how to unarchive an email in Gmail: That’s it. Related posts:

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