How to Delete Attachments in Gmail

The free Gmail account offers a generous storage allowance of 15GB (split between Gmail, Google Drive and Google Photos). That said, it could be easy to encroach on your storage limit over time, especially if you receive a lot of attachments.

In this video we will show you how to delete messages with attachments from your Gmail inbox. Rather than having to purchase more storage from Gmail (from $5 per year per 20GB).

[DougPowell]

Incorrect! This deletes the entire email that has the attachment. It does NOT remove the attachment from the email message.

[BetterSquash]

As others have said, this title is clickbait. The technique deletes the whole email. In addition it's trying to get you to download software.

[dictatorjames]

The title is, falsely, "How to Delete Attachments in Gmail" but the instructions delete the entire email instead.

[MrGman]

I do not want to delete the whole mail, just the attachment?

[janetbeatrice]

Don't bother watching. We all know how to delete an email.

[everardogolf]

This is NOT what we're looking for, this is misinformation. This deletes the entire email that has the attachment. It does NOT remove the attachment from the email message.

[rochellet]

Why does your blog post headline that links to this video say "How to delete attachments in email without deleting the messages".? It was so disappointing to read that you can't. It shouldn't be in the headline (which got me a 'hit" on my search and it was 100% NOT what I was searching for.)

[ettcha]

I guess this is one of those 'Technically Correct' things. Following this will remove attachments... by deleting the entire email! So, for those like me who clicked on this thinking the title actually meant what it plainly says, you are in the wrong place.

[nickedmonton]

Misleading clickbait. I'll report. Others, please do so as well.

[tbond]

Thats what I was afraid of. It should be easy

[edgarfiliprozycki]

I recommend all to report it as misleading and ad. So I did.

[mikeciresi]

You need to change your heading for the video, this does not just remove the attachment but the whole email. When you search "remove attachment from gmail" this video comes up.

[KevinCostelloVideo]

This is click bait with inaccurate infomation. The video DOES NOT help you delete attachments. (only shows you how to delete the EMAILS with the attachments)

[ValmisFilm]

The title is misleading, it actually shows "How to Delete Gmail emails WITH Attachments" - so yeah, please change that, it is wrong!

[lucyharding]

What a con! When desperate to delete attachment from a long email, there seems no way I can get this sorted.

[FrankKPChow]

WARNING: Following these instructions will delete the email as well as the attachment. It does not remove only the attachment.

[ikatsman]

"How to Delete Attachments in Gmail" is not "delete e-mails WITH attachments".

[abbeys.]

SALES PITCH!!! Does not show how to delete ONLY attachments!

[amatulic]

The video has a misleading title. It doesn't say how to delete attachments, it says how to delete entire emails that have attachments. There is a need to delete just the attachments but keep the emails.

[clevelandeastsider]

The title of this video is totally misleading. It states how to delete the attachments, but it only goes through the standard steps to delete the entire email & attachments. And then it goes on to try to sell you their software, which, in fact doesn’t delete attachments from an email! So the whole video is a waste of time & irritating! Please report this as spam or misinformation.