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Working with Priority Inbox
If you have configured Gmail on the web to show Priority Inbox, you can configure Gmail on your phone to
show it as well. You can also set Priority Inbox as your default inbox.
Open Priority Inbox
Priority Inbox is a list of conversations that Gmail or you have labeled important and that are also in your
Inbox: they are new or you haven’t archived them or moved them to another label by hand or with a filter.
Touch the label at the top of any conversation list and then touch Priority Inbox OR Touch Priority Inbox in
the Labels screen. See “Viewing conversations by label” OR Press Menu and touch the Go to Inbox menu
item, available on many Gmail screens, if Priority Inbox is your default inbox.
Set Priority Inbox as your default inbox
This setting is only available in Gmail on your phone if you have configured Gmail on the web to show
Priority Inbox.
Open your Inbox, press Menu and touch More > Settings > choose Gmail you want to set Priority Inbox in >
Check Priority Inbox.
Mark a conversation as important
Check one or a batch of conversations that are not marked important or open a conversation that is not
marked important.
Press Menu and touch the Mark important. The messages are added to your Priority Inbox and Gmail
learns about what conversations you consider important.
Mark a conversation as not important
Check one or a batch of conversations that are marked important or open a conversation that is marked
important.
Press Menu and touch the Mark not important.
The messages are removed from your Priority Inbox and Gmail learns about what conversations you
consider less important. If you opened the conversation from your Priority Inbox, you are returned to the
Priority Inbox immediately.
Working with conversations in batches
You can archive, label, delete or perform other actions on a batch of conversations at once in your Inbox or
in another labeled list of conversations.
In the Inbox or other conversation list, check the conversations that you want to work with as a batch.
When you check a conversation, the Archive, Delete and Labels buttons appear at the bottom of the
screen.
Touch Archive, Delete or Labels OR press Menu and touch Add star, Report spam, Mute, Mark read/Mark
unread or Deselect all.
If you are using Priority Inbox, you can also mark conversations important or not important in the menu
(see “Working with Priority Inbox”). Your action affects the entire batch of messages. If you delete a batch