Discover a Hidden Gmail: Gmail is the go-to email platform for most Indians, with over 350 million users in the country—making up nearly 62% of India’s internet users. On a global scale, Gmail serves more than 1.8 billion users. But no matter how popular it is, one common frustration unites us all—finding old emails buried under years of messages. Scrolling endlessly to locate that one important email from years ago can be time-consuming and exhausting. Luckily, there’s a simple trick that can help you skip the hassle and instantly pull up years-old emails in just seconds.
Using a simple search command, you can instantly filter emails by age and save a lot of time. Here’s how you can do it:
- Open the Gmail app on your smartphone or go to mail.google.com on your desktop.
- Tap or click on the search bar at the top of the screen.
- In the search bar, type the special command to filter old emails. The format is:
older_than:Xy
Here, X is the number of years you want to go back, and y stands for years. For example, if you want to find emails that are 5 years old or more, type:
older_than:5y - Press Enter or Search, and Gmail will instantly display all emails older than five years.
That’s it! With this quick trick, you can save time and easily locate emails from years ago without the hassle of scrolling through your inbox.
