How to Stop Amazon Emails
Quick answer: To stop Amazon emails, open a recent Amazon email and unsubscribe, then go to your Amazon notification settings at https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GJAW9SFGM8XTS89H and switch off the categories you don't want. Amazon controls its email by category, so one unsubscribe click usually stops only a single type. To clear the backlog, search from:amazon in Gmail and bulk delete.
What Amazon actually sends you
Amazon sends marketing and promotional emails (deals, recommendations), newsletters and subscriptions (Kindle Daily Deals, Amazon First Reads), order and shipping confirmations, and program and enrollment emails. The reason your inbox fills up is that these are often separate lists or notification types, so switching off one doesn't stop the rest.
How to stop Amazon emails, step by step
- Unsubscribe from a recent email. Open a recent Amazon email and use its unsubscribe link.
- Turn it off at the source. Open Amazon's email or notification settings at https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GJAW9SFGM8XTS89H (Open the Communications Preference Center > General Settings > expand Email > uncheck 'Do not send me any marketing email for now' > Save changes) and turn off the categories you don't want.
Does unsubscribing from Amazon actually work?
Amazon controls email across several separate places, so unsubscribing once is not enough. Marketing emails are turned off in the Communications Preference Center, but newsletters and subscriptions (Kindle Daily Deals, First Reads) live separately under Your Email Subscriptions, and order and shipping confirmations cannot be turned off at all. Changes can take 1 to 5 business days to take effect. That's the part most "how to unsubscribe" guides miss, and it's why Amazon email often keeps arriving after people think they've opted out.
Clear out the Amazon emails already in your inbox
Unsubscribing stops new mail. It doesn't remove what's already there. On desktop Gmail, search from:amazon, click the select-all checkbox, then click "Select all conversations that match this search", and hit the trash icon. Empty Trash to reclaim the storage.
If Amazon is just one of many senders crowding your inbox, MailMop ranks every sender by volume so you can bulk delete and unsubscribe across all of them in one pass, in your browser. MailMop users have cleared over 2 million emails this way.
A couple of Amazon-specific tips
- Check both the Communications Preference Center and Your Email Subscriptions. Turning off one leaves the other still sending.
- If emails continue, wait up to 5 business days before assuming the change failed. Amazon says preferences can take 1 to 5 business days to apply.