Find messages with or without a personal label

How it works

has:userlabels keeps messages that carry at least one personal label, has:nouserlabels those that carry none.

Examples

• has:nouserlabelsOpen in Gmail ↗

  Messages with no personal label.

• has:userlabelsOpen in Gmail ↗

  Messages with at least one personal label.

What it does well

• Finds everything that was never filed, useful for tidying a messy mailbox.

What it does badly

• Labels apply to messages, not conversations: a conversation can have some labeled messages and some unlabeled ones.Documented by Google · Gmail Help: search operators

See also

• label:Finds messages filed under a label.
• is:Finds messages that are important, starred, read, unread or muted.