Delete multiple emails before a date in iOS 14 not using iCloud

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Delete multiple emails before a date in iOS 14 not using iCloud

On my iPhone 12, iCloud is NOT being used to store emails, and many of the emails on the phone are from POP servers, so deleting them on a desktop or cloud email program does not delete them automatically on the iPhone as in IMAP accounts.

Question: how is it possible to delete all emails before a certain date in an automated way without having to delete them one by one, or page by page.

In other words, the entire operation has be done on the iPhone without the assistance of iCloud or a desktop or cloud email program.

Is there a way on the iPhone itself to delete multiple emails (hundreds or thousands of them) before a certain date in an automated way? From All Inboxes or from any other folder like Sent?

iPhone 12, iOS 14

Posted on Jan 24, 2021 8:00 AM

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Axel Foley

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Jan 24, 2021 8:16 AM in response to Global99-

Shot answer - Given the full circumstances upon which your email account(s) is built, you are not going to be automatically able to delete emails filtered by a date on your iPhone. Your emails are POP3 accounts and therefore, as you know, can be deleted on the computer and may not carry out the actions on your iPhone.

If any of those are Exchange accounts then that can be done on a computer or on the account's website.

Axel F.

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Global99- Author

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Jan 24, 2021 9:16 AM in response to Axel Foley

Thanks. How about semi automatically, maybe by clicking on first email to be deleted and somehow on the last one, highlighting all of them and then just clicking Delete once?

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