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of conversations, you can touch Undo in the green bar at the top of the screen to undelete them. You can
also use Undo after muting, archiving and reporting spam.
If you never work with batches of messages, you can hide the checkboxes to leave more room for the
subjects of conversations. See “Changing Gmail settings”.
Check conversations to add them to the batch
Touch a button to act on the batch or press Menu to act on the batch in other ways.
Starring a message
You can star an important message to make it easy to locate again. Conversations with starred messages
display a star in your Inbox and other conversation lists. To view just conversations with starred messages,
see “Viewing conversations by label”.
Star a message
While reading a message, touch the star in its header.
OR
While viewing a list of messages in a conversation list, touch a message’s star.
The star turns gold.
Unstar a message
Touch its star again.
Unstar all messages in a conversation
Touch the conversation’s star in a conversation list.
Labeling a conversation
You organize conversations by labeling them. Gmail has several built-in labels. You can add your own labels
and assign them colors by using Gmail on the web (custom label colors you create on the web are not
supported in Gmail on the phone).
Viewing labeled conversations is described in “Viewing conversations by label”
Label a conversation
While reading a message touch Menu and then Change labels.
New dialog opens.
Check the labels you would like to assign to your message.
Touch OK.
Label a batch of conversations at
once
You can assign or change the labels of one or more conversations at
once.
In your Inbox or other conversation list, check the conversations to
label.
Touch the Labels button at the bottom of the screen.
In the dialog that opens, check the labels to assign to the
conversation. Touch OK.