Bulk Unsubscribing Tools to Help Unclutter Your Inbox

Like a home in real life, cleaning up isn’t always fun and easy, but if you put in a little elbow grease it may be worth the peace of mind of a clutter-free inbox.

If you have multiple emails across providers like Gmail and Microsoft Outlook, it may be easier to use services that help you unsubscribe to emails than to do each sender individually. Free apps like Unroll.me and Unsubscriber offer to do this in bulk; however, you have to agree to give these businesses access to your inbox — which it may then sell to other marketers. Unroll.me, in particular, faced backlash in 2017 when customers learned that their data was sold to Uber to track whether people had been using competitor Lyft by monitoring for receipts. Still, if you’re interested in trying apps like these (and then revoking their third-party access later), you can find tutorials online to show how to unsubscribe from these kinds of services.

While these options aren’t going to remove annoying emails from your life entirely, they’re good steps to take to declutter your inbox. By consistently marking which emails are spam and reading only the ones you care about, filters will start getting better at recognizing which emails you care about and which you don’t.  It could help lead you to a more peaceful inbox.

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