How to Fix Outlook Emails Not Showing Up in Inbox - MiniTool

Fixed an issue where Outlook emails don't show up in the inbox, but only show up in search results

Your Outlook email does not appear in your inbox, but it appears in search results? What should I do if the Outlook email is incompletely displayed? The MiniTool solution will provide you with several practical ways to solve this problem and retrieve the disappearing email.

Outlook email not showing in inbox

Although Outlook is a powerful and widely used personal information manager software system for Microsoft, many users still encounter various problems or errors. Our previous articles discussed many Outlook-related issues such as "Outlook data file has reached its maximum size" and "Unable to send emails at this time".

This article will guide you through another Outlook issue – Outlook emails are not displayed in your inbox.

When you run into this problem, you may want to know:

"How do I fix the problem that my email is not displayed?"

Read on to get some viable solutions.

How to fix the problem of email not showing

Method 1: Change view settings

The survey shows that the set view settings (such as enabling filtering) are the most common cause of the "Outlook does not show all messages" issue. Please follow the instructions below to change your view settings.

Step 1. In Outlook, select the Inbox folder, go to the View tab, and click View Settings .

Step 2. In the pop-up window, click Filter . Then, click Clear All .

Alternatively, you can complete this task by resetting the view. Click Inbox > View > Reset View . After that, go to the Inbox folder and check if all messages are displayed here.

Method 2: Check the spam folder

Sometimes, your messages may be mislabeled as spam and moved to the spam folder. In this case, you cannot see the corresponding message in the Inbox folder.

To move messages from the spam folder to the inbox folder, follow these steps.

Step 1. Right-click the message in the spam folder and select Move > Other folders .

Step 2. Select the Inbox folder or the Inbox subfolder. After that, click OK .

Now you can see the target mail in the Inbox folder.

Method 3: Check the deleted mail folder

If you accidentally delete messages, they will be moved to the deleted mail folder until more than 30 days or the folder is cleared. This is why Outlook mail is not showing in the inbox, but in search results. You can right-click the message you want and click Mobile > Inbox to recover it from the deleted mail folder.

If you have deleted a message from the deleted message folder, follow these steps.

Step 1. Go to the deleted mail folder.

Step 2. Click Recover the recently deleted items from this folder above the Deleted mailing list.

Step 3. In the new window, select the desired message (or you can select the Select All button) and make sure the Recover Selected Project option is selected. Finally, click OK .

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Method 4: Disable automatic archive

Outlook's automatic archive feature can help you permanently delete old messages or move them to a default archive folder or other location. Enabling this feature may cause "Outlook mail not showing in your inbox" issue.

You can disable automatic archive by following the steps below.

Step 1. In Outlook, right-click inbox to select Properties .

Step 2. Go to the Automatic Archive section and select the option not to archive the items in this folder .

Step 3. Click Apply , click OK to make this change take effect.

Method 5: Repair PST file

When there is a problem with the Outlook PST file, a failure of "Outlook does not show all messages" may also occur. In this case, you can use the PST repair tool to repair the PST file.

in conclusion

All in all, this article describes how to deal with the issue where Outlook emails are not showing up in your inbox. Hope the methods listed are helpful to you.

If you have found other effective ways to solve this problem, please share it with us. Thanks in advance.

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