It still takes you to the same Promotions folder. The other way to see the promo emails is to click on the Promotions tab at the top of your Gmail inbox if you have the feature enabled. You’ll see a Promotions subfolder nested under it. To see all the promo emails in one place, load Gmail in a browser and look at the Categories folder on the left.

But you can replicate these steps on mobile devices as well. In what follows, I’ll explain how to delete those emails using Gmail in a web browser. Gmail can identify promotions automatically and move them to their own folder.

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