Google is helping you clear out your inbox by making it easier to unsubscribe from email lists, and Android users are getting the first look.
Remove yourself from an email list
Currently, you have a few options for removing yourself from an email list. You can click the unsubscribe button at the bottom, or you can click the unsubscribe shortcut next to the sender’s address at the top.
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Unfortunately, this means you’ll have to go message by message, which can be time-consuming, or you can use a trick to get 15GB of storage for free and let those messages keep piling up.
A new Gmail tool, called Manage Subscriptions, fixes that problem by making a single list of all your subscriptions and providing an easy way to unsubscribe from them.
How to manage your subscriptions
You can find Gmail’s new Manage Subscriptions feature by tapping the overflow menu in the top left — the button you use to access your different inboxes and labels.
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Once you open the new tool, you’ll see the name and email address of every list you’re subscribed to, along with how many messages you’ve received recently from each sender.
There’s a button to the right of each sender that lets you easily unsubscribe without leaving that screen. Instead of going message by message and clicking the unsubscribe button at the bottom of each one, you can now handle all your opting out on one screen.
When you unsubscribe, Google says it may still take senders a few days to stop sending messages.
Gradually rolling out
The feature hasn’t reached all devices yet, and I didn’t have it on any of the phones in my house when I checked. Google says it is “gradually rolling out” the tool, so you should see it soon if you don’t already.
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