Gmail Promotions Filter Not Working

14 hours agogmail glitch appears to break email filtering, tabbed inboxes marketing emails that should appear in the promotions tab are flooding people's primary inboxes. 12 hours agoif you’re seeing a lot more promotional emails in your gmail inbox, you’re not alone. Something appears to be going wrong with the automatic filters.

14 hours agogmail’s filter system has been a strong way to quiet the noise of constant promotional emails and updates, but it might be broken. 14 hours agogmail’s spam filter is broken, leading to inboxes flooded with promotional emails and warnings to “be careful.” 10 hours agogoogle has confirmed an issue with its email service after gmail users complained that their mailbox wasn’t working properly.

Gmail users have reported that promotional emails that are. 13 hours agogoogle says it's working to fix gmail issue that's led to flooded inboxes and increased spam warnings gmail users started experiencing issues with their inboxes' automatic filters on. 14 hours agomeanwhile, users are also complaining that gmail's tabbed sorting is acting up, with promotions and social emails suddenly being routed into the primary inbox.

Clicking “not promotions” or confirming a gmail pop‑up like “do this for future messages?” creating a filter that sends certain emails to inbox or skips categories. As of one week ago, gmail completely stopped filtering emails into “promotions” and they’re all coming into my primary inbox. Can anyone help me restart the promotions filter?

Aug 17, 2025if your social and promotions categories have disappeared, don’t panic.