Gmail: How To Display All Unread Email
Contributed by Rob Rogers 
Tagged: Google If you keep a large amount of email in your Gmail Inbox, it can sometimes be difficult to locate all of your unread mail. Instead of scrolling to hunt for them, you can simply perform a basic search and quickly get a collection of anything that you have yet to read.
1. Go to Gmail.
2. In the Search box at the top of the page, input the following:
label:(unread inbox)
3. Click the Search button
A list of all unread emails located in the Inbox will appear.
If you need to do this frequently, you can save time by using a little shorthand and using this in the Search box:
l:^u l:^i
^u is shorthand for unread
^i is shorthand for inbox
You can also search for unread email on your phone’s Gmail for Mobile application:
1. Open Gmail for Mobile.
2. Select Menu.
3. Select Search Mail.
4. Input label:(unread inbox) and select Search.
A list of all unread emails located in the Inbox will appear.
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Mike said on December 18, 2008
This was awesome! Thanks for this tip, I added a google labs utility which allowed me to make that search a short cut.
Anon said on January 29, 2009
Or you can just put is:unread
Liam said on June 10, 2009
Didn’t work.
Rob said on June 16, 2009
thanks!!!! worked like a charm using: label:(unread inbox)
Anil said on September 25, 2009
work well with label: (unread inbox) thankyou. you can then save the link in quicklinks from google labs.
Ash said on June 20, 2010
FABULOUS!! Thanks!
Ganesh Iyer said on July 7, 2010
This is an excellent tip and saved my time a lot! Thanks!
Ipixelsdesign said on August 13, 2010
Perfect, being pulling my hair of having 1 unread message to find with over 5000 messages. Thanks
Tiendat said on August 19, 2010
Thanks.
Sarah said on June 14, 2011
I tried to add the shortcut to my quicklinks in google labs and the link doesn’t work. What am I doing wrong? I put “label:(unread inbox)”
Sandra Andersen said on June 19, 2011
Thank you, Rob Roberts. Great advise – worked immediately!
Nalla said on October 16, 2011
Awesome.. it works gr8