How To Clean Up The Gmail Sidebar
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If you’ve been using Gmail for several years, the site’s sidebar can easily get cluttered with unused labels and old Hangouts Chats messages. Not to mention the new Google Meet section. Here’s how to clean up the Gmail sidebar on the web
Before we begin, yes, you can just click the Hamburger button to collapse and hide the Gmail sidebar, but that isn’t going to take care of the real problem
Let’s start by disabling the Hangouts Chat and Google Meet section. Both clutter up the bottom half of the sidebar
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From the Gmail web home page, click the Settings gear icon found in the top-right toolbar
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Click the Gear icon in Gmail
Next, select the “Settings” option
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Choose the Settings option in Gmail
Now, go to the “Chat And Meet” tab
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Switch to Chat and Meet section
If you want to disable the Hangouts Chat box, go to the “Chat” section and click the radio button next to “Chat Off.”
To disable the Google Meet section, click the radio button next to the “Hide The Meet Section In The Main Menu” option. Google is slowly rolling out this option. If you don’t see it yet, wait a couple of days
Click the “Save Changes” button
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Disable Hangouts Chat and Google Meet in Gmail Sidebar then click Save Changes
Gmail will now reload, and you’ll find that the Hangouts Chat and Google Meet sections have disappeared
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No Google Meet or Hangouts Chat sections in Gmail Sidebar
Now, let’s move on to the top half of the sidebar—the labels
Go back to the Gmail Settings menu by clicking on the gear icon on the home page and navigate to the “Labels” section
Go to Labels section in Gmail settings
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Here, let’s first tackle the System Labels. In this section, if you want to hide any default labels that you don’t use often, click the “Hide” or the “Show If Unread” button next to it
Hide system labels to clean up Gmail sidebar
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And don’t worry, when you hide a label, it doesn’t disappear. When you click the “More” button, you’ll be able to see all hidden labels
So, you can hide labels like Drafts, Spam, or Trash, and still access them later from the More menu
Click More to expand all Gmail labels
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From the Categories list, you can either hide individual categories or the entire section from the sidebar
Hide Categories section to clean up Gmail sidebar
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Lastly, take a look at the Labels section. This section contains all of the Gmail labels that you have created over the years. If you no longer use a label, you can choose to delete it by clicking the “Remove” button. (The messages with the label won’t be deleted.)
If you don’t use any labels often, click the “Hide” button or the “Show If Unread” button
Hide personal labels from Gmail sidebar
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Do this for all of the labels. Again, remember you can access hidden labels by clicking the “More” button from the sidebar
From our long list of system and personal labels, we were able to bring it down to just four important labels
Cleaned up Gmail sidebar without Google Hangouts or Google Meet section
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Doesn’t that just look clear
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