Email 171
Searching and organizing your emails
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.
1. Press HOME , and then tap > Gmail.
2. In the Inbox, press SEARCH.
3. Enter the word or words to search for.
4. Tap , or tap the Enter key on the onscreen keyboard.
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 below the status bar. You work with the
conversations in this list just as you would with the conversations in
your Inbox or any other conversation list.
Starring an email message or conversation
You can star an important message or a conversation so that you can
easily find it again. To view just starred messages or conversations
with starred messages, see “Filtering conversations” in this chapter.
1. Press HOME , and then tap > Gmail.
2. Do one of the following:
In the Inbox, tap the star ( ) to the right of the conversation
subject to star the latest message in the conversation.
Conversations with starred messages are displayed with a star
in your Inbox and in other conversation lists.