Searching for messages

Searching for messages

You can search for messages that contain one or more words in their contents or in their addresses, subjects, labels, and so on.

When you search for messages, all of the messages in your Gmail account on the web are included (except those labeled Trash or Spam), not just those that you’ve synchronized onto your phone. For this reason, you must have a data connection to search for messages in Gmail.

You can also use the advanced search options that are described on the Gmail website.

1In the Inbox, press Menu and touch Search. Or press the Search button .

keyboard or the magnifying glass icon at the right of the search box. Or touch words you searched for previously, in the list below the search box.

A conversation list opens, displaying all of the conversations with messages that contain the words you searched for. The words you searched for are displayed in the title bar.

You work with the conversations in this list just as you would with the conversations in your Inbox or any other conversation list.

When you open a conversation in a search result list, the word you searched for is highlighted wherever it occurs in the conversation’s messages.

Words you search for are stored by the phone and suggested for later Gmail searches. You can erase these stored words with Gmail settings; see “Changing Gmail settings” on page 163.