How to Move Messages to Another Folder in Gmail

This wikiHow teaches you how to categorize Gmail messages by label on both desktop and mobile devices. “Labels” or “Labels” is a form of folders in Gmail.

Table of Contents

On the computer

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Visit the Gmail homepage at https://www.google.com/gmail/ . If you’re already signed in, your inbox will appear.

If you are not logged in, click the SIGN IN or LOG IN button in the upper right corner of the page and type in your email address and password.

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Click More ▼ or Expanded List ▼ at the bottom of the folder tree on the left side of the inbox page.

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Click Create new label or Create new label . This option is at the bottom of the More section in the list of options.

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Enter a label name, then click Create or Create . So the label name will be added to the directory tree.

You can also check the Nest label under or Nested label box and then select an existing label to create a new label as a subfolder.

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Select the message to label. To do this, click the box to the left of each email you want to label.

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Click the label icon. This button is shaped like a label near the top of the inbox, just below the search box.

You can also click on the selected email, drag and drop it on the label name located in the folder tree on the left side of the page.

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Click the label name. The selected email will automatically be added to the label, which means you can click on the label located in the left sidebar and view the email.

If you want to hide email from your inbox, click the “Archive” or “Archive” button (the button at the top of the inbox, with a downward-arrow icon in the frame). The email will then disappear from your inbox, but you can still view it by clicking on the label name.

On the phone

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Open the Gmail app. Look for the app with a red “M” on a white background, which looks like an envelope.

If you are not signed in to Gmail, type in your Google address and password and then click Sign in .

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Tap the ☰ button in the upper-left corner of the screen. A menu will pop up.

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Scroll down and tap the action + Create New or + Create New Label at the bottom of the menu.

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Enter a name for the label and click DONE or DONE . So the label has been created.

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Tap . A menu will pop up.

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Scroll down and select Primary or Primary at the top of the menu. This will take you back to the main mailbox.

You can also click the Social (Social), Updates or Promotions mailbox at the top of the menu if needed.

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Select the email that you want to move to the folder. First, click and hold an email until a checkmark appears on the left side, then click on the remaining emails you want to move.

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Tap the … button located in the upper right corner of the screen. A menu will appear.

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Select Change labels or Change labels . This option is near the top of the pop-up menu.

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Click the label. Then a checkmark will appear in the tick box of the label, located on the right side of the screen.

If there are multiple labels, you can tap each label that you want to apply to the selected email.

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Click the ✓ in the upper right corner of the screen. This will put your labels on the selected emails and add them to that label’s folder.

If you want to hide messages from the main mailbox, slide the labeled email to the left. The message will be archived and disappear from the inbox.
To view a label, tap ☰ , scroll down, and select a label name. All your labeled messages are located here.

Steps

On the computer

On the phone

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