# How do I save an email as a PDF in Gmail? — Adinand Email Cleaner Last reviewed: October 15, 2026. HTML version: https://adinandemail.com/answers/save-an-email-as-a-pdf-in-gmail **Open the email, choose Print (or Print all for the whole conversation), and in the print window choose Save as PDF where you would normally pick a printer.** Gmail itself has no PDF button, and its help page on printing never uses the word PDF, so the second half of that answer comes from the pages Google and Apple publish about printing. How much those pages cover differs by device, so each one gets its own section below. ## Print one message or the whole conversation

Google's Gmail page splits printing in two. For one email in a thread, "At the top right of the email, click More", then Print; the page notes that "If there are multiple emails within the same conversation, you can print just one of those emails." For the back-and-forth as a single document, "At the top right, click Print all" ([*Print Gmail messages* (Computer), Gmail Help](https://support.google.com/mail/answer/8255?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop), read 15 October 2026). The app versions use the same two words behind the More button: "tap More Print" for one message and More, then Print all, for the conversation ([*Print Gmail messages* (Android)](https://support.google.com/mail/answer/8255?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid) and [*Print Gmail messages* (iPhone & iPad)](https://support.google.com/mail/answer/8255?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DiOS), both read 15 October 2026).

## On a computer: the destination box

Clicking Print in Gmail opens your browser's print window. Chrome's help describes that window in one line: "In the window that appears, select the destination and change your preferred print settings." Save as PDF is one of those destinations; the same page names it when it explains how to get a printout into Google Drive, with the step "Click Save as PDF" ([*Print from Chrome* (Computer), Google Chrome Help](https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1069693?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop), read 15 October 2026). Pick it in place of a printer and save the file. That is Chrome's page; in another browser, its own help describes its print window.

## On Android

The Gmail page for Android opens with a condition: "To print from your phone or tablet, add a printer that can get data by Wi-Fi or mobile network" (the Android *Print Gmail messages* page above). It does not say whether a PDF counts. Google's Chrome help for Android is more specific about the print screen: "To save your print preview as a PDF, tap Save as PDF", then "Choose where to save the PDF file on your device" ([*Print from Chrome* (Android), Google Chrome Help](https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1069693?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid), read 15 October 2026). Google's general Android printing page says only that "The app you use determines how you print" and does not mention PDF ([*Print from your device*, Pixel Phone Help](https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/3473588?hl=en), read 15 October 2026). So the Gmail app's own print screen is undocumented on this point: tap Print, then look at the printer choice at the top for Save as PDF.

## On iPhone

The iPhone Gmail page stops at "tap More Print" (the iPhone *Print Gmail messages* page above). Apple's printing article covers choosing an AirPrint printer and options "like which pages you want to print", and it does not mention saving to PDF or to Files ([*Use AirPrint to print from your iPhone or iPad*, Apple Support](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201387), read 15 October 2026). Neither company's page describes a PDF route from Gmail on an iPhone, so we will not give you one from memory. If the PDF matters, the computer route above is the documented one.

## When Print is not offered

All three Gmail pages give the same reason a message will not print: "The sender might've turned on confidential mode to send the email, which prevents printing message text and attachments" (the *Print Gmail messages* pages above). Since a PDF here is made through Print, a confidential message cannot be saved this way either.

## Attachments are a separate job

Google's print page does not say whether a message's attachments appear in the printout, or which header details (sender, date, recipients) are printed with it (the computer *Print Gmail messages* page above). Open the PDF once before you rely on it as a record. Files attached to the email are safest saved on their own: [downloading attachments in bulk](https://adinandemail.com/answers/download-gmail-attachments-in-bulk) covers a computer, and [saving attachments on iPhone](https://adinandemail.com/answers/save-gmail-attachments-on-iphone) covers the phone.

## One email is not the whole mailbox

Printing works one message or one conversation at a time, and the Gmail page describes no way to print a batch (the computer page above). If what you really want is a copy of everything, that is Google Takeout's job, not Print's; [downloading all of your Gmail](https://adinandemail.com/answers/download-all-my-gmail) walks through it.

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