If conversations are slow to load and Gmail's search seems sluggish, you can speed things up by tweaking some settings and doing some routine maintenance.
I created my first Gmail account way back in 2005, and my current account has existed since 2012. My life revolves around email, but sometimes those revolutions can run a bit slow. Hampered by too many emails, I find myself clicking and waiting for an email to open and waiting again to see the attached files. I knew I had to solve the problem. Google doesn’t provide a lot of guidance for speeding up one’s Gmail inbox, likely because the company doesn’t want to admit it runs slow at times.
You can also use the “older_than” search operator; type “older_than:1y” in the search bar to see all emails more than one year old. Try “older_than:2y” and so on. For me, after deleting large files and labels, and deleting thousands of old emails, Gmail ran noticeably faster. One other fix has to do with how many files you view in your inbox. It’s a basic rule of computing, especially in web-based apps: showing less information on the screen means the app doesn’t need to work as hard.
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