Gmail offers a variety of ways to filter mail by size. The first way is to use the “Filter By” button at the top of the main Gmail screen. This button lets you choose how to filter your mail: by sender, subject, or body. The second way to filter mail is by using the “Filter By Type” button. This button lets you choose how to filter your mail: by email type, sender, subject, or body. The third way to filter mail is by using the “Filter By Date” button. This button lets you choose how to filter your mail: by date, time stamp, or message content.


Want to figure out what is taking up all your space in Gmail? It’s easy — just use the size operator in the search box. You can combine it with the has:attachment operator to make sure that you’re just filtering for attachments, but it will work either way.

Use a search like this to return all emails larger than 10 MB:

You can also use regular numbers, like size:10000000 for the number of bytes if you want to get even more crazy. But it’s much simpler to use the 10mb operator. Or 5mb. Or whatever.