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
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 )
I just downloaded the new 18 iOS and now I can’t mark all of my emails to delete them
I simply want to select all of the emails in my “promotions” folder and delete them. Surely if Microsoft can do this Apple can.
It doesn’t work!
Once I tap an all mail the option to choose them goes away
Recent possibility to select emails to erase disappeared! Now it is only possible to open individually or to scroll from right to left and in settings choose an option and erase each one separately
I also cannot get to All Mail. I too wish I never updated to this version of iOS.
Open Mail upper right corner three dots click, and list mail is one of the choices that appears to be the old way
Not working ! Too bad.
Why?
I have exactly the same issue.
I have exactly the same issue.
Tap on option menu from upper right corner of mail app. Change to “list view” then select “select” option. Once you select an email, “select all” should appear
Same here! This is awful!
This is the answer I needed, Thank you so much!
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 .
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.
How to select all emails in the iOS 18.2 Mail app?
