I've deleted social media apps from my phone, but was still hooked to my email app. Deleting it freed up time in my day for more meaningful things. Checking my email less actually helped me to stay on ...

Sometimes it can be frustrating when you delete an email by mistake, however, Gmail provides several ways to restore those emails. In case you wish to recover an email within the 30-day deletion ...

Update, Sept. 24, 2024: This story, originally published Sept. 23, now includes new information regarding the automatic deletion of other data used by Google. While users of the world’s largest free ...

You can retrieve your deleted email if you use a program that has the functionality to restore emails that have been removed. Not every email client offers this option to its users, so check before ...

When the ominous warnings started hitting my inbox a few months ago, I tried to ignore them. The emails contained none of the humor or playfulness of the early Gmail ethos. Instead, they were terse ...

I ran out of Google storage space because my Gmail inbox was flooded with unread messages. To continue receiving new emails, I had to delete over 30,000 older ones. Filtering messages, unsubscribing ...

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