Q: iOS 10 Mail delete all function?

Awesome - thanks so much - this is working for me at the moment.  Still hope Apple fixes this oversight with the new iOS.  Thanks again

There is no Delete All in iOS 10, on my iPhone...

What's up with that?

Wrong, the delete all has been removed from the new iOS 10 update.  PLEASE get it back!

Thanks for posting this link.  iOS 10 disabled one of my POP email accounts and the only fix is the delete the account then re-Add the account.  Well this resulted in thousands of email being downloaded to my iphone.  The process in the link leaves out one important factor.  You must manually delete one email to create the Trash folder or you cannot move the selected emails to the Trash.  Mark all of the as Read was not necessary for me.  YMMV.

Fred

Apple does not even care about these posts here...

WOW, this is frustrating! I too am going to have to use a Windows machine for this task daily unril this is fixed! Why remove such a small, yet helpful feature!? Anyone have the link to report a bug to Apple??

Worth trying, but FYI for anyone else also using Exchange: deleting and recreatinf my mail account on my iPhone 6 did NOT work!

Here is a workaround (until apple realizes this feature is necessary):

1. go to the individual inbox you wish to delete all

2. Tap "edit" in the top right corner

3. select any email (this will make "move" [bottom center] an option)

4. Tap and hold "move"

5. while holding move tap to de-select the email from step 3

6. Release "move" (this will bring up a list of destinations to move the emails)

7. Tap trash (this will move all your emails to the trash)

Seems to me this is a bug. I mean, the same issue applies to flagging! I can flag all my email, but can't unflag all my emai!!! i learnt the hard way! The question is, will Apple just say it was designed that way?    

Are you missing something?  Yes you are.  Go to Trash and select Edit.  Now, without selecting any of the emails, hit the blue Delete All in the bottom right corner of the screen; all emails are then deleted.  Note:  If you start selecting emails the system assumes you are being 'selective' and the Delete All option is changed to Delete.

That's the point.  That's how we expect it to work, but in IOS 10 it doesn't. At least for the majority of us on his thread.

It works for me in iOS 10.

      smeetshim   Sep 22, 2016 4:30 AM in response to Alisonlowe76   

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      Sep 22, 2016 4:30 AM   in response to Alisonlowe76      

Are you missing something?  Yes you are.  Go to Trash and select Edit.  Now, without selecting any of the emails, hit the blue Delete All in the bottom right corner of the screen; all emails are then deleted.  Note:  If you start selecting emails the system assumes you are being 'selective' and the Delete All option is changed to Delete.

You're missing the point of this discussion.  It is not a problem to Delete All item that are already in the trash.  Theissue is Delete All is missing from the InBox.

Precisely. The previous version allowed us to Delete All straight from Inbox as well as Trash.

Apologies!