Gmail what is important folder

Start by opening the Settings menu and clicking on the Filters and blocked addresses tab. Select Never mark as important , then Create filter again. Send Rhiannon your tech queries at rhiannon. Log In. Contact us Sign up for newsletters. Log In Register now My account.

Why does Gmail keep marking my emails as important? Saving duplicate emails as important can be annoying The important folder is not living up to its name Photo: Pixabay. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help.

Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Since I don't use labels in my email I thought that was more than a little odd. I use a third party email client to access all my email, and any email that Google labeled 'Iimportant', I would uncheck the label and the label would disappear for that email.

Random new email would still arrive with the 'Important' label. If you're experiencing the same thing, the following steps should stop Google from adding the 'Important' label to any email that Google decides is important. Note that these changes can only be made using the Gmail web interface, not through a Gmail app or a third party email client. Changes made in the web interface will apply to any apps or third party email clients.

Since it's a system label, making these changes will remove the 'Important' label from use in Gmail. You can easily create a new label to use in its place.

Select an email, click on the label icon, select 'Create new', give your label a name, click 'Create' and your label will appear when you click the Label icon.

I went through these steps a some months ago and all was well until the last few weeks, when some emails started arriving with the 'Important' label again.

If that happens, repeat these steps:. These steps should stop Google from assigning an 'Important' label to messages in your Gmail inbox.

Jan 30, AM. Page content loaded. Jan 29, PM. Jan 30, PM. Thanks, even though that useless "important" folder is still there with copies of some emails, everything now works.