[Step-by-Step Guide] How to Recover Deleted Emails in Gmail

Google Gmail is a free email service offered by Google. Users may access Gmail through a web browser or the official mobile app. Since email distribution and reception are more convenient, more and more users would like to use email accounts to register and access websites. With the significant number of junk mail piles in the mailbox, it's easy to delete vital mail mistakenly when you decide to clean them.

It might be a nightmare to accidentally delete an essential email if you've mistakenly deleted emails or messages from your Gmail account to clear up space or clean the history. Such a problem is quite common in daily life. You'll be stuck trying to figure out how to recover deleted emails from your Gmail account, and it may be annoying. However, it doesn't mean impossibility.

Therefore, in this post, we'll show you how to recover deleted emails in Gmail in and after 30 days with three methods.

How to recover deleted emails in Gmail

Method 1. Recover a Gmail from the trash (in 30 days)

Gmail has remedial measures to help users retrieve accidentally deleted emails. If you delete an email from your Gmail account, it will go to the trash bin for 30 days, and then it will be permanently removed from your account.

As a result, this option is only possible if you erased emails in Gmail during the previous 30 days. Follow the instructions below to recover lost emails in Gmail on a computer or mobile device.

Step 1. On your computer, go to Gmail and sign in with your ID and password.

Step 2. On the left side of the page, scroll down to locate and click More > Click Trash.

Step 3. Check the box next to the messages you want to move > Check Move to icon > Choose where you want to move the message.

Tip: If you want to restore deleted files on your smartphone, open the Gmail app, go to the Menu button, and choose Trash. Then tap the letter or photo next to the email you want to retrieve, and touch the three dots “More” button at the top right button to move the email.

Method 2. Recover permanently deleted emails in Gmail (in 55 days)

If you do not recover deleted emails from the trash bin within 30 days, the email will be permanently removed from your account. In this case, Google Workspace Admin Console gives users another 25 days to recover deleted emails.

You can utilize Google Workspace Admin Console to recover these emails, which gives users additional options and flexibility in restoring Gmail emails that have been permanently erased.

Step 1. Login to your Google Workspace Admin Console, and search for the concerned user.

Step 2. Go to the user’s details page > Click MORE > from the drop-down window, choose RESTORE DATA.

Step 3. Enter the date range for which you want to restore deleted Gmail emails.

Step 4. Select Gmail from the Application dropdown > Click Restore to start.

Method 3. Recover deleted emails via data recovery tool

Gmail emails are not files; they are saved in the email database file, so no data recovery program can recover lost emails from the database file. But if you have local emails saved on your PC, you can use data recovery software to retrieve these emails.

To realize this idea, we suggest you AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional, disk and partition management for Windows 11/10/8/8.1/7/XP.

Its “Recover Data” feature can give you a hand. This function can recognize various file types, which means users can use it to find lost photos, videos, audio, emails, Word documents, PPTs, PDFs, etc. And there are no device limits. The tool can scan internal & external hard drives, SSDs, SD cards, USB flash drives, and other storage media to retrieve files. When the lost files have been scanned, they will be restored to the original file path and deleted files' names.

Step 1. Install and launch this tool. In the main interface, click "Recover" > "Recover Data" at the top toolbar.

Step 2. The tool will run the recovery gadget. Choose the exact disk you used to save the deleted/lost files > Click Start Scan to let the tool scan your disk.

Step 3. The deleted/lost files will be scanned and listed in the Scanned files list. You can click each folder to browse them here.

You can also search for the name of the files or folder in the search bar to find them.

Step 4. Locate and choose the lost files from the list > Click Recover x files > Choose a destination to save the files.

Tip: This tool can also recover missing partitions on your PC.

Ending lines

If you don’t know how to recover deleted emails in Gmail, this post may offer you some solutions. The difficulty of retrieving emails relies entirely on whether the emails have been erased for over 30 days.

AOMEI Partition Assistant is a multifunctional tool for Windows users. You can also use this tool to upgrade the disk without reinstalling OS and apps, safely convert partition scheme to MBR/GPT, transfer apps to another location, etc. Windows Server users can opt for the Server Edition to conveniently manage the Server PCs.