What Is the Gmail Archive?
Rather than deleting an email and losing it for good, you can choose to archive it instead. As soon as a message is placed in the Gmail archive, it is removed from your inbox and tagged with the label All Mail. These messages remain in your Gmail account and can be retrieved easily at a later time, but in the meantime, they are out of sight and out of mind. Sending a message to your Gmail archive is easy, so much so that some people mistakenly archive emails by clicking or tapping the wrong option. Still, retrieving archived messages is also easy.
Archive Emails on a Desktop Computer
Follow these steps to archive messages in Gmail on a desktop computer or web browser.
Archive Emails on an iOS or Android Device
Moving messages into your archive is even easier on smartphones and tablets when using the Gmail app. Swipe from right to left on a message in your inbox or other folder and it is instantly archived, assuming that your swiping settings have not been previously modified. To validate your Gmail swiping settings beforehand, take the following steps.
Android Devices
iOS Devices
Mute Gmail Messages on a Desktop Computer
In addition to archiving individual emails, Google offers a similar feature with one difference. While messages are still moved to the All Mail repository when muted, they are not automatically returned to your inbox when someone replies. To mute a message on your computer, take the following steps:
