I can't see any good way to select all emails in the iOS 18.2 Mail app. I think you can do it by scrolling down with two fingers, but that's a pain when you have hundreds of emails. In the older versions of Mail I would normally Select All then Mark as Read which made it easy to see where I left off the last time.
Am I missing something?
TIA
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iPhone 16 Pro Max
Heres a future reference for those who haven’t figured it out,
If you have the mail categories turned on, go all the way to the category on the right, to the All Mail "category"(which can be done by swiping right) . Then "Select All" will show up in the top-left when you choose "Select". If you are within Primary or any of the other categories, there is no Select All button.
Heres a future reference for those who haven’t figured it out,
If you have the mail categories turned on, go all the way to the category on the right, to the All Mail "category"(which can be done by swiping right) . Then "Select All" will show up in the top-left when you choose "Select". If you are within Primary or any of the other categories, there is no Select All button.
I'm on 18.3.2 and have the issue where I can Not Select all the emails so I can Delete them like from Junk or Trash or Inbox.
I have the the "Settings / Display / Brightness / Text Size" set with the text size TOO large.
This tops you from swiping the Icons under the "Search Box" to the Left and seeing the Icons like:
"ALL Mail". If you try and Swipe to the Left you can Not get to the far Right since the Text Size was NOT taken into consideration when this feature was codded.
I changed my "Text Size" smaller until, in Mail when I swipe to the Left I could see the Icon "ALL Mail".
Then at the upper Left of the screen I could see the "Select ALL" Button.
I clicked the "Select ALL" Button and ALL the emails in the list are selected.
Then I just clicked on "Mark" Button on the Bottom and all the emails are selected then I click the Move to trash then Do the whole process over to get rid of the emails in the Trash Folder.
Do you know how to contact the Moderator to move a solution/work around to the First Item to the TO of replies?
Thanks,
cranem451
Quality Assurance Software Engineer ( retired )
Yes, the "Select All" option will indeed appear in the new Mail app in iOS 18.1 and 18.2. However, there's a small detail to keep in mind that might affect you if you use multiple email addresses simultaneously. To access the "Select All" feature, you must first navigate back and select a specific email address before opening the "All Mail" section. The Mail app will not mark all emails as read if multiple mailboxes are selected. This limitation is important to note for efficient email management.
I had the same issue and changing:
Settings / Display & Brightness / Text Size
an reducing the Size of the Text SMALLER
I could finally select ALL of the email messages.
Then perform stuff on ALL of them at once
like Marking as Read, Moving to Trash, deleting ALL of them.
Give it a try and let me know if it Works around your issue.
If so then we can try and get Apple to fix the issue once they
understand what is causing the issue.
You will Not see the issue if the "Text Size" is small enough.
Having the display screen have larger icons may cause this issue also.
cranem451
Starski77 wrote:
I also have this question. It appears that it is not possible. Why Apple? Please fix this.
Apple doesn't read here in this user-to-user forum for feedback or suggestions. You can, however, let them know your thoughts here:
If you haven't already, you should update to iOS 18.4.
My selection button at the top vanished on iPad with iOS 18.2. I’m sure it was there yesterday…anyhow I force restarted my iPad, no change then exasperated I did it again & the select button is now back allowing multiple emails to be selected to put in bin / delete etc
I had to force restart my iPad twice before the “select “ button appeared back at the top. Just a glitch on some devices I feel
Here's 2 Ways....in iOS 18.2 Update....
Or
Remove the Mail category for all the time,
In mail app with iOS 18 and previews versions you have to tap in Edit right corner then on All left corner then on the trash 🗑️ icon to delete all mails at once
It is there , but the control has changed . At your mail box , on the top across you can see Primary plus three other icons( transactions , updates & promotions ) . Scroll to the left and it will reveal one more after the last icon which is All Mail . Tap on All Mail , then tap Select . The Select All will appear on the left upper . Click Select all and all will be selected .
Thanks. I'd read about that before but couldn't get it to work. Turns out, at least on my phone, if I scroll to the left to get All Mail, tap on All Mail, the Select All button doesn't appear for some reason. But if I again scroll to the left so All Mail is visible, the Select All magically appears. Must be a bug. Thanks for your help.
I also have this question. It appears that it is not possible. Why Apple? Please fix this. If I do a search for all emails from a certain sender … Then please give me a select all feature to mass delete All emails from that search result. I realize that it may include email from multiple senders that got snagged up in that search. But hey, that’s less destructive than master deleting all emails from all senders to clean things up.
Click on the three dots on upper right and select list view.
This doesn't work if you want to delete all emails from a specific person. For instance... I have a ton of emails from a store. I want to delete ALL of them. How do I only delete all of those messages without having to select every single message?
Thanks, but I think there is still an issue. When you “select all”, if there are any already-opened and read emails in your box, the option it gives you for all of them is to “Mark as Unread” whereas it used to be completely the other way around. If you had any unread emails the default option was always to “Mark as Read” to easily clear your whole inbox. Maybe they will update this too?
How to select all emails in the iOS 18.2 Mail app?
