Synchronizing your conversations by label, Select which labels to synchronize

Synchronizing your conversations by label

The Gmail webmail service has the resources to store all the messages you’ve ever sent or received; your phone does not. To save space, Gmail downloads only some of your messages to your phone. You can set which conversations’ messages are kept current on your phone, by label, and what portion of those conversations, by time.

You use the Settings application to control how and when applications synchronize their data. See “Accounts & sync settings” on page 369.

Select which labels to synchronize

2Press Menu and touch More > Settings > Labels.

The Synchronization settings screen opens, displaying a list of your Gmail labels,

for the account listed at the top of the screen. Below each label is its current synchronization setting: Sync all, Sync 4 days, or no label (not synchronized).

Sync none Don’t download any conversations that have only this label. Sync 4 days Download the previous 4 (or number of days you set) of conversations.