iPhone data storage in email app

Hi 1944Bill,

Thanks for getting in touch with Apple Communities. It seems to me that the Mail app size is over 3GB when you navigate on your iPhone to:

Settings > General > iPhone Storage > Mail

The solution here would be to remove the email account off your phone, then re-add it. This should "purge" all email data off your phone. I always do this when I see my Mail app storage getting too high.

The following steps can be followed to remove an email account off your iPhone:

1. Navigate to: Settings > Passwords & Accounts
2. Click the email account name you want to remove
3. Click "Delete Account". Note this will not delete any emails off that account. In other words, your emails will remain on your email provider's web mail, or any other app that is set up with that account.

You can follow the steps at the following link to set up the email account again:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201320

To reduce the rate that the Mail app consumes data on your iPhone's storage, you can disable the downloading of remote content. This means images and similar "rich content" will not load when you read an email:

1. Navigate to: Settings > Mail
2. Under the "Messages" section, turn off "Load Remote Images"

Let me know if this advice helps. If you have any further questions or you feel I have misunderstood your query, feel free to reach out here.

Kind regards,

adh77

Hi 1944Bill,

Thank you for your prompt response. I am glad you could resolve this issue.

Feel free to reach out on Apple Communities with any further questions.

kind regards,

adh77