Many of you use Gmail as your primary email client. Almost everyone knows that you can delete an email, but what quite a few people don’t know is that when you delete it, it’s not deleted permanently. Google keeps your emails available for the following 30 days, before it removes them permanently. Well, if you’d like to get rid of them straight away, for good, we’ll show you how to delete email from Gmail permanently.
We’ll actually show you how to do that via both a mobile app, and a desktop client. Do note that we’re only talking about deleting here, archiving is something completely different. Archiving emails doesn’t really delete them. In any case, we’ll start with a tutorial for the phone app, and will then move to the desktop client.
How to delete emails permanently in the Gmail app
All of you probably know how to delete an email, but we’ll cover that too, just in case. You can delete one email, or more at once. If you’d like to delete one email, there are two ways to go about it. First, you can open a list of your emails, and tap on an image listed on the left side of the email.
