Inbox overflowing? Sometimes it helps to show only the unread email messages, so you can more quickly scan through the list and clean out your inbox. The select Unread feature in Gmail just checks the boxes next to the unread messages, but hereās how to show only unread.
Note: of course, this isnāt really news to most serious geeks, but weāre out to help everybody.
Displaying Only Unread Emails in Gmail
Like we were mentioning above, if you use the drop-down and choose āUnreadā from the list, all itās going to do is select the checkboxes next to the unread messages in the listānot that useful for cleaning out your inbox.
Instead, all you need to do is type is: into the search box, and the search suggestions box will pop up and let you select the is:unread from the listāwhich, of course, you could also type into the box yourself.
And now, youāll see all the unread messages in your email account.
Since thatās not quite as useful as what we really want, what youāll want to do is add the label: operator to the search as wellāusing label:inbox on the end of the search will allow you to filter down to just emails in your inbox.
So there you go, the search that will show you all the unread emails in your inbox:
is:unread label:inbox
Enjoy cleaning out your inbox.
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