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Trash icon missing from Mac Mail

How to recover trash icon for Mac Mail?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.1

Posted on Jan 12, 2022 3:21 PM

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Posted on Jan 12, 2022 3:34 PM

The solution doesn't make obvious sense but it works.


  1. Click the + sign to the right of iCloud and it will pop up a windows to create a new folder. Name it whatever you want ... if won't matter. Call it "This is Stupid" ... it doesn't matter.
  2. Go to mail preferences - accounts - highlight icloud - mailbox behaviors. On the drop down to the right of trash mailbox: choose your new folder as where you want the trash to go.
  3. Somehow ... it will get magically transformed into a trash icon that you can move back into place where it should be.


Short explanation is that you create a temporary folder titled "test", "future trash" ... just doesn't matter because when you choose it to be where you want trash to go .... that folder will morph into a trash icon.


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Jan 12, 2022 3:34 PM in response to bjs07

The solution doesn't make obvious sense but it works.


  1. Click the + sign to the right of iCloud and it will pop up a windows to create a new folder. Name it whatever you want ... if won't matter. Call it "This is Stupid" ... it doesn't matter.
  2. Go to mail preferences - accounts - highlight icloud - mailbox behaviors. On the drop down to the right of trash mailbox: choose your new folder as where you want the trash to go.
  3. Somehow ... it will get magically transformed into a trash icon that you can move back into place where it should be.


Short explanation is that you create a temporary folder titled "test", "future trash" ... just doesn't matter because when you choose it to be where you want trash to go .... that folder will morph into a trash icon.


Trash icon missing from Mac Mail

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