Tap the Search button in the upper-right corner of the screen, or click the search bar if you are using Chrome. You can search for messages based on a variety of different criteria.;
, Enter an email address to find all of the messages you have received from that address. You can enter a partial email address if you can't remember the whole thing.
 Enter a name to find messages that you have received from a specific person.
 Type keywords to search through subject lines and message bodies to find matching messages.
 You can use operators such as older_than and newer_than. You can search by days, months, and years. For example older_than:6m will search for emails that are over six months old. newer_than:3d will show all of the messages you have received in the last three days.
 You can use the larger and smaller operators to search for messages above or below a certain size. For example, larger:2m will look for messages that are larger than 2 megabytes in size.
 Use multiple search operators to narrow down your results. You can combine an email address search with a date modifier, or a keyword search with a person's name.


You can use the OR operator to search for two (or more) different search terms at once.
You can use the - operator to exclude terms from your search results. For example, searching for date -movie will search for anything that matches "date" but doesn't contain the word "movie".
You can use " " to search for exact phrases.
You can use + to search for exact terms. For example, +movie will return anything matching "movie", but not "movies".
Search for messages.
Search by the sender's email address.
Search by the sender's name.
Search by the message's subject and content.
Search by date.
Search by the size of the message.
Mix and match search modifiers.
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