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Web and Data Services
To star a message:
You can star an important message so that you can easily find it again. Conversations with starred
messages are displayed with a star in your Inbox and other conversation lists. To view just conversations with
starred messages, see “To view conversations by label” later.
Do one of the following:
䢇 While reading a message, touch the star in its header.
䢇 When viewing a conversation, touch its star to start the newest message in the conversation.
To unstar a message, touch its star again. You can also touch a star in a conversation list to unstar all
messages in the conversation.
To label a conversation:
You can organize conversations by labeling them. Gmail has several preset labels you can use, and you can
also add your own labels, using Gmail on the web.
1. While viewing the messages in a conversation, press and then touch
Change labels.
2. Select the labels that you want to assign to the conversation, and then tap
OK.
To view conversations by label:
You can view a list of the conversations that have the same label.
1. When viewing your Inbox or another conversation list, press , and then touch
View labels.
2. Touch a label to view a list of conversations with that label.
The conversation list resembles your Inbox, but the label replaces “Inbox” in the title bar. You work with
labeled conversations lists in the same way as with your Inbox.
To change Gmail synchronization settings:
1. Press and tap
> Gmail.
2. Press , and then tap
Settings > Labels.
3. To set the number of days to synchronize, tap
Number of days to sync.
4. To set synchronization for a particular label, tap the label. You can select to synchronize the default
number of days, or you can sync all or none of the label’s messages.
To work with conversations in batches:
You can archive, label, delete, or perform other actions on a batch of conversations at once, in your Inbox or
in another labeled list of conversations.
1. In the Inbox or other conversation list, select the check boxes for the conversations you want to work with
as a batch. When you select a check box, the
Archive, Labels, and Delete buttons are displayed at the
bottom of the screen.
2. Tap the
Archive, Labels, or Delete button to perform one of those actions on the batch of conversations, or
press for more options.