If there are many emails, you can also choose the maximum amount of compressed file that you can download.įinally click on ‘Create export’ and Google will start to generate your compressed file with the Gmail emails that you have chosen to download. Depending on the amount of emails this can take minutes, hours or even days . Be patient. You can return to the same Google Takeout website to locate the downloadable file, although you will also receive a notice in Gmail advising of this: ZIP file format so that you can correctly manipulate the file on your Mac. Here you must select ‘Export once’ and the. If you press the button ‘All Mail data has been included’ you will be able to choose between downloading all emails or only those from certain mailboxes . Once you have done this, go back to the top of the page and click on ‘Unmark all’, otherwise you will download the data and preferences of all Google services. Now go back to ‘Mail’, select the section so that only this one is downloaded and click on the ‘Next step’ button: That said, we are going to go to a Google website called Takeout , from which you can download your Gmail emails. To do this, you must look for a section called ‘Mail’, where you can choose to download all messages or only those from certain mailboxes / labels of the service: From Gmail to Mail in a few stepsįirst of all, make sure you know your Gmail access password and your Apple ID password . Remember that both services work with two-factor authentication, so you will also need to have your iPhone with the Gmail application installed if you have that extra security activated ( spoiler : you should).

One of these emails is Apple’s own, hosted in iCloud and which has recently released very useful functions such as being able to hide our address or our traffic with Private Relay. So if you intend to take all your emails from Gmail to iCloud , I am going to explain how you can do it. Gmail is one of the most used email services, and the one that has one of the best websites for both basic and professional users. Now, we are talking about Google and therefore the debate on privacy is present quite strongly. There are those who precisely decide to avoid Gmail and look for more private email solutions .

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