David Bedford
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Q: iOS 10 mail...no delete all

Where has this option gone in iOS 10 Mail? You can no longer delete all in sent mail..

Real pain having to delete each on in turn.

 

is there a way round this anyone please?

david

MacBook (13-inch Aluminum Late 2008), OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)

Posted on Sep 13, 2016 11:45 PM

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  • by Scottp10,

    Scottp10 Scottp10 Sep 15, 2016 11:54 AM in response to David Bedford
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    Sep 15, 2016 11:54 AM in response to David Bedford

    How could they let this slip with all the betas

  • by Jesse A V,

    Jesse A V Jesse A V Sep 15, 2016 12:20 PM in response to Jesse A V
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    Sep 15, 2016 12:20 PM in response to Jesse A V

      I Found something interesting. I use hotmail as my email server. If I go to my "junk email" folder in the mail app the "delete all" button is missing. I can however select an email in there (one by one) and swipe it left. An option pops up saying "more flag delete". If you then select "more" then select "mark..." and then select "move to junk". If I do this, it creates a new folder on my email server and mail app called "junk". In this new "junk" folder is the option to "delete all".

     

       It is for this reason that I think there is a problem with the mail app recognizing the existing junk folder. Again, the bigger complaint, why isn't that option available in all mail folders?

  • by David Bedford,

    David Bedford David Bedford Sep 15, 2016 1:54 PM in response to Scottp10
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    Sep 15, 2016 1:54 PM in response to Scottp10

    To be honest I think Apple relies more on the public beta members rather than its own programmers to sort issues out.

     

    As you say how could they miss this one?

     

    Had similar issues with iOS 9 final release when you couln't delete previously used email addresses which werent in your contacts address book. Was finally fixed.. but took too long.

  • by Maarten Van Den Hoek,

    Maarten Van Den Hoek Maarten Van Den Hoek Sep 16, 2016 2:43 AM in response to David Bedford
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    Sep 16, 2016 2:43 AM in response to David Bedford

    thanks. exactly same issue here....

    I have a mailbox which receives a lot of notifications.... need a PC now to delete because on iphone is not doable anymore... BAD decision from apple....

  • by kamad,

    kamad kamad Sep 16, 2016 7:57 AM in response to David Bedford
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    Sep 16, 2016 7:57 AM in response to David Bedford

    Yes, and how many years have we waited to have this feature and now we are back to deleting one by one again.

    Apple told me because some dumb people did't realize that "trash ALL" meant "ALL" so they took the feature away because of people that don't know what "ALL" Means. What about us that do know hat "ALL" means? Would be nice to have it as an option at least in settings. How about that apple. Do you think you can manage that? Steve jobs would have!!!

  • by jackvans,

    jackvans jackvans Sep 17, 2016 11:15 AM in response to fireftr075
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    Sep 17, 2016 11:15 AM in response to fireftr075

    Grrr, was so happy with the "Move to trash" in iOS 9! Don't understand why Apple is not empathising with its customers: arrogance?

  • by David Bedford,

    David Bedford David Bedford Sep 17, 2016 11:47 AM in response to jackvans
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    Sep 17, 2016 11:47 AM in response to jackvans

    Jackvans - I think your right, that coupled with stack programming QA.

  • by David Bedford,

    David Bedford David Bedford Sep 17, 2016 11:33 PM in response to David Bedford
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    Sep 17, 2016 11:33 PM in response to David Bedford

    And that would be slack ...Lol

  • by Tcarter42,

    Tcarter42 Tcarter42 Sep 18, 2016 9:12 AM in response to David Bedford
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    Sep 18, 2016 9:12 AM in response to David Bedford

    Took long enough for the delete 'ALL' function that was finally added in OSI 9 and now it's disapeared in OSI 10. 

    Apple sort this out asp please. You should be continually improving NOT going backwards.

  • by Mhartler,

    Mhartler Mhartler Sep 19, 2016 1:22 PM in response to David Bedford
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    Sep 19, 2016 1:22 PM in response to David Bedford

    Hi,

    Found this on another site. Ugly but works...


    Just Found this solution on the cult of mac website:

    You can still trash all emails at once... it's just more convoluted.

    Go to your inbox, Tap Edit, then Mark All, and then Mark All as Read. This will then close the Edit mode.

    Tap Edit again, and tap the top message in the inbox. Press and hold the Move button with your thumb.

    While holding the Move button, uncheck the top message, and then release the Move button.

    You will then be on a screen with a trash icon, click it and your emails are deleted.

    Not quite as simples as the old way but it solves the problem.

    Marc

  • by Holle007,

    Holle007 Holle007 Sep 19, 2016 2:30 PM in response to David Bedford
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    Sep 19, 2016 2:30 PM in response to David Bedford

    There is only the option to delete / select all in trash mails but no longer in spam or comparable - very annoying! And after years finally getting Apple to support this option there is no way of understanding, why they removed it! Apple???

  • by David Bedford,

    David Bedford David Bedford Sep 19, 2016 2:30 PM in response to Mhartler
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    Sep 19, 2016 2:30 PM in response to Mhartler

    Good work..

    Its a solution , a long winded solution but does not really solve the problem, that will only be done by reinstatement of the removed function, DELETE ALL (click).

  • by Holle007,

    Holle007 Holle007 Sep 19, 2016 2:32 PM in response to Mhartler
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    Sep 19, 2016 2:32 PM in response to Mhartler

    But Marc, thanks anyhow - though still no one understands this change of easily deleting several Mails...

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