but the idea of cleaning out your Gmail inbox probably fills you with some dread. Before you start paying for extra storage, though, read on: We'll show you how to get back 15GB of free storage ...

Google is trying to fix it (I'll get to that in a second), but it's ... that activates a refreshed version of the Updates inbox in Gmail," a spokesperson from Google told Business Insider.

If you want to keep an eye on your incoming messages without having to obsessively check your inbox, you can set up desktop notifications for Gmail. This means that you'll get a notification on ...

Otherwise, you’ll be better off deleting your unread emails in Gmail rather than saving them. If your inbox gets cluttered up again in the future, repeat the process above to get rid of everything.