How to Prevent Sent Gmail Messages Appearing in Your Inbox
Follow these steps if your iPhone isn’t updated to the latest iOS version. You might have the version of Mail in which this problem occurs. If these steps don’t stop sent emails from appearing in your Inbox, there might be something different going on, which can happen even with modern versions of Mail and Gmail. If you have a Gmail filter set up to send all emails from yourself to your Inbox folder, then that’s why sent email show up in the Inbox. Another possible cause is that you have all emails from yourself set up to be marked as starred emails while having all starred messages included in your Primary folder. With these situations, the fix is to examine your Gmail filters and other settings and edit as needed. The starred settings can be accessed in a web browser via the Inbox settings, and filtering options are available in the Filters and Blocked Addresses settings.
The Price You Pay for Not Receiving Sent Mail
The copy you get in Inbox when you send messages from Mail is a side effect of the recent mode, which serves a useful purpose. The Gmail recent mode sends all connecting email programs or mobile devices the last 30 days of Gmail messages. With this mode turned on, you can access your email on all programs and devices, provided you check once every four weeks. With recent mode turned off, you might not be able to access messages that are downloaded to iPhone Mail if you connect to the same Gmail account from another email program.
