If you wish to block emails on Gmail, allow this article to guide you. In this article, we have mentioned the ways to block emails on Gmail. Later in this article, we have also included alternate routes to stop seeing emails from a user on Gmail.
How to Block Emails on Gmail?
There could be many reasons why you would want to block emails on Gmail. Asides from personal reasons, you would like to block them for security reasons. You must consider blocking the sender if you constantly receive malicious emails from the same sender that looks like spam or phishing. We have gathered two ways you can block emails on Gmail. You could select the sender’s email from your Gmail inbox or manually search them up and then block them. When you block a user on Gmail, all emails you receive from them in the future will be sent to the Spam folder. Depending on the method more viable to you, refer to one of these methods to block emails on your Gmail.
Through Gmail Inbox
If you can locate the email from the user you wish to block easily in your inbox, you can refer to this method. You can view up to 50 recent emails on a single page from your inbox, so if you recently received an email from the user, follow these steps to block them from your inbox on Gmail.
On Website
If you wish to block emails on Gmail using a desktop, we recommend you use the web version of Gmail. Here are the steps you can follow to block a sender from Gmail’s website:
On Mobile App
Android and iOS users can use the mobile application of Gmail to block emails. You can download the Playstore for Android and App Store for iOS.
Through Search
If you are having trouble locating the user from your inbox, you can manually look them up from the Gmail settings. You can create a filter to block the senders that meet your criteria using settings. This is an intelligent tool if you want to block a specific sender or emails with certain attachments. If you wish to create such filters to block particular emails, follow these steps:
How Can I Stop Viewing Emails Without Blocking the Sender?
If you do not wish to block the sender but still want to stop viewing the emails from the sender, you can unsubscribe to mass emails or manually send the email to the spam folder.
Unsubscribe Email
When you choose to unsubscribe, you will still receive the email from the sender but not from the email chain. If you wish to stop viewing a mass email, for instance, a newsletter, you can unsubscribe from the email following these steps:
Mark Email as Spam
Marking an email as spam will move your email from the inbox to the spam folder. This will clear your inbox of emails you do not wish to view and contribute to productivity. Here are the steps you can follow to mark an email as spam on Gmail:
