After moving up to iPadOS from iOS 9, I can‘t find a way to delete individual messages from a thread in Apple Mail. In iOS 9, the individual messages in thread view could still be selected for deletion. How can I do this in iPadOS 14?
iPad, iOS 9
Well, I finally figured this out for myself. In iOS9, clicking on the latest message in a thread immediately opened an indented list of messages in that thread. In iPadOS, selecting the latest message only displays a tiny circle containing a „>“ in the uppr right of the item in the navigation pane. Clicking on this circle makes the „>“ point downward instead of to the right; then the other messages in the thread are displyed below as in iOS9, and can be individually selected for deletion. Fortunately, I have an Apple Pencil for my iPad, otherwise I would be out of luck: this tiny circle is far too small to be fingertipped, even by an infant. This is the ultimate irony: when I complained in another thread about operations I found difficult to accomplish with pencil and keyboard, I was told that the iPad was intended to be operated by fingertips. ;-{
Well, I finally figured this out for myself. In iOS9, clicking on the latest message in a thread immediately opened an indented list of messages in that thread. In iPadOS, selecting the latest message only displays a tiny circle containing a „>“ in the uppr right of the item in the navigation pane. Clicking on this circle makes the „>“ point downward instead of to the right; then the other messages in the thread are displyed below as in iOS9, and can be individually selected for deletion. Fortunately, I have an Apple Pencil for my iPad, otherwise I would be out of luck: this tiny circle is far too small to be fingertipped, even by an infant. This is the ultimate irony: when I complained in another thread about operations I found difficult to accomplish with pencil and keyboard, I was told that the iPad was intended to be operated by fingertips. ;-{
Hi rsbrux,
It looks like you're trying to delete a single message from a thread in your email on your iPad since updating to iPadOS 14. Making sure you only keep the messages that contain information you need is crucial for keeping your folders orderly. We're glad you reached out for help.
Check out the resource below for the steps to delete emails on the new software.
Delete and recover emails in Mail on iPad
We hope this answers your question.
Have a good day!
Thanks for responding, but I was already familiar with all of the operations described in the linked article. When I try them in thread view, the entire thread is deleted. I usually want to keep only the latest message in a thread, because it usually contains the entire correspondence anyway, and delete the earlier messgaes in the thread. This was easy to do in iOS 9, but, in iPadOS I don‘t find a way to select individual messages for deletion without disabling thread view. Without thread view, however, it is much harder to find the individual messages in the thread that I want to delete.
How to delete a single mail from a thread in ipados?
