why is my android device not updating when I have deleted all my emails on my mac computer?

[Android Central Question]

as the question writes. why am i not seeing an empty inbox in gmail when i've deleted all my emails online on gmail?

 

[Tim1954]

Is synch turned on?

 

[Rukbat]

Gmail is IMAP by default, so deleting the emails on your Mac only deletes them on the Mac, not from the email server. Go to GMail and change the setting (meatball > Settings > Forwarding and POP/IMAP to enable POP, and to disable IMAP. (IMAP is normally used when you want to access the same email in more than one device and, if you delete it from that device, it doesn't delete from other devices.)