How to Stop Pinterest Emails
Quick answer: To stop Pinterest emails, open a recent Pinterest email and unsubscribe, then go to your Pinterest notification settings at https://www.pinterest.com/settings/notifications/ and switch off the categories you don't want. Pinterest controls its email by category, so one unsubscribe click usually stops only a single type. To clear the backlog, search from:pinterest.com in Gmail and bulk delete.
What Pinterest actually sends you
Pinterest sends saves and activity on your Pins, recommendations and digests (boards for you, picked for you, popular Pins), social notifications (new followers, group boards, messages), Pinterest announcements, and feedback and surveys. Its email comes from pinterest.com, info.pinterest.com. 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 Pinterest emails, step by step
- Unsubscribe from a recent email. Open a recent Pinterest email and use its unsubscribe link.
- Turn it off at the source. Open Pinterest's email or notification settings at https://www.pinterest.com/settings/notifications/ (Settings > Notifications > expand 'How you get notifications' > toggle Email off (or 'Turn off all') > Save. In the app: profile picture > Settings > Notifications) and turn off the categories you don't want.
Does unsubscribing from Pinterest actually work?
The unsubscribe link at the bottom of a Pinterest email only stops that one specific type of email, not all of them. To fully stop Pinterest email, go to Settings > Notifications and turn off Email under 'How you get notifications' (or deselect every email type) and Save. Changes can take a day or two. Pinterest also stops emailing entirely if you mark an email as spam or if its emails keep bouncing. That's the part most "how to unsubscribe" guides miss, and it's why Pinterest email often keeps arriving after people think they've opted out.
Clear out the Pinterest emails already in your inbox
Unsubscribing stops new mail. It doesn't remove what's already there. On desktop Gmail, search from:pinterest.com, 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 Pinterest 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 Pinterest-specific tips
- Don't rely on the in-email unsubscribe link alone. It is per-email-type. Toggle Email off (or 'Turn off all') in Settings > Notifications to stop everything at once.
- Marking a Pinterest email as spam will make Pinterest stop sending you email, per their troubleshooting page.