How To Clean up & Organize the Gmail Sidebar

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Last Updated on June 15, 2020 by Larious


How To Clean up & Organize the Gmail Sidebar
How To Clean up & Organize the Gmail Sidebar

Want to declutter your Gmail sidebar? Check out the detailed method of how to clean up the Gmail sidebar. It’s no doubt that Gmail is the king of email clients with over millions of users using this service. The good thing about Gmail is that it syncs plenty of other Google services like Google Docs, Drive, Android, Hangouts, etc.

With all such things syncing in regular intervals, the sidebar can quickly get cluttered with unused labels.

Let’s admit, there are times when we all wanted to hide specific labels from the Gmail sidebar. This will make Gmail cleaner and easier to use. Gmail does provide users an option to hide the Gmail sidebar, but that isn’t going to solve the real problem.

So, in this article, we have decided to share the best method to clean up the Gmail sidebar on desktop. With this method, you can easily hide unnecessary tabs from the Gmail sidebar. So, let’s check out how to clean up the Gmail sidebar in 2020.

Step 1. First of all, open Gmail on your Windows 10 computer.

Open GmailOpen Gmail
Open Gmail

Step 2. Now, click on the Settings gear icon located in the top-right toolbar.

Click on the Settings gear iconClick on the Settings gear icon
Click on the Settings gear icon

Step 3. Select ‘See all Settings’ from the drop-down list.

Select 'See all Settings'Select 'See all Settings'
Select ‘See all Settings’

Step 4. Now select the ‘Chat and Meet’ tab.

Select the 'Chat and Meet'Select the 'Chat and Meet'
Select the ‘Chat and Meet’

Step 5. There you need to select ‘Chat off’ under Chat and ‘Hide the meet section in the main menu’ under the Meet. Next, click on the ‘Save Changes’ option.

Make the changesMake the changes
Make the changes

Step 6. Now head to the ‘Labels’ section.

Select 'Labels'Select 'Labels'
Select ‘Labels’

Step 7. Under the System Labels, you can easily show or hide the Gmail labels from the sidebar.

Show/Hide Gmail Labels from the sidebarShow/Hide Gmail Labels from the sidebar
Show/Hide Gmail Labels from the sidebar

That’s it! You are done. This is how you can clean up the Gmail sidebar in 2020.

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Declutterd Gmail Sidebar

So, this article is all about how to clean up the Gmail sidebar. I hope this article helped you! Share it with your friends also.

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