Why no Select All in email?

Should have said you will probably need to remove the account then add back with the days to sync set to 1 week.

I don't know if this will work for everyone or not...... I had 4000 emails shown on my iPad and they disappeared when I deleted them from my server! Quite a relief, trying to get rid of them was driving me nuts!

I have unsubscribe to notifications from this string but the Apple Support community keeps adding to this discussion and I keep getting the unwanted notifications. This really *****! I do not see away to avoid these. Can someone incharge please delete this thread. I will never participate in any of you discussion again... I want out. I want out. I want out.

This is exactly why I ditched iPad mini for nexus 7. Apple, stop being stubborn like Ford, give people what they want. Even God allowed man to be able to do gene therapy on the best machine ever invented, the human body.

Maybe this can help:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKa-KFjUIGE

Select a message, hold the move button, deselect the message while still holding the move button.

A new window appears allowing you to move all messages to the trash.

Bingo!

This discussion is about iPads, not the iPhone, if that helps any. Your video is about the iPhone. Does this also work for iPad, too?

That worked before the update, not so much now..... but it is easier to delete them from your service provider's site, I don't think all those e-mails have been downloaded to the ipad anyway, it is just a notification. I have Charter, and when I deleted them there, it showed I had no messages on my ipad. Good Luck!

The holding the move button routine DOES work on os7 and the new iPhone 5s.

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Apple has great products but lousy software, (UI)They think like gophers, in this up that one etc. why not make it easy to do things? That is why many apple products run gmail instead of iMessage or whatever they call it.

Take entering your iTunes card fir instance. You wold think there would be a huge button next to settings for making sued we enter those $ as soon as possible. But no, go to iTunes, then music then blah blah blah.

Same with this delete mail. I bought the Nexus 7 that I use when on the run to do emails, because of this stupidity within iPad.

pammie1000 wrote:

That worked before the update, not so much now..... but it is easier to delete them from your service provider's site, I don't think all those e-mails have been downloaded to the ipad anyway, it is just a notification. I have Charter, and when I deleted them there, it showed I had no messages on my ipad. Good Luck!

Precisely. The ipad/phone mail systems are a sync to the web mail. They will only sync the number of days set to sync. There should be no neeed to delete all unless using no-limit sync period. However upgrading OS with mail accounts in place can cause real problems. This applies to Droid tablets, Playbooks etc as well.

When upgrading OS I would always recommend deleting all email and message accounts, then add them back with the iOS 7 one week default sync days. Then only 7 days worth will appear in mail. If you don't need to delete them from your web mail you dont actually need to delete from ipad device.

I use also Mac Mail on the Macbook set to retrieve mails and delete automatically after a week. Keep all important mail on the Mac.

There's lots of great suggestions in this thread and they are all viable solutions. But I need to ask the question again just to rehash it and make sure it stays a current topic.

"Apple, why is there no Select All functionality in Mail?"

We're not asking for solutions; we're not asking why IMAP is better than POP; we're not asking for the need to justify why Spam filters aren't in place or why the allotted time schedule of a tired, overworked father doesn't regularly have a slot that I can use to sit down for 10 minutes each day and update my filtering affairs so this isn't an issue and yudda, yudda, yudda. All we are asking is why this one simple, extremely useful, functional option isn't in place?

I get Groupons. They're great. I use them occasionally. I don't always get to read them, but I know that by the time I get around to it, they are old. I just typed Groupon into the Search bar and it came up with 732 results. I don't want to delete the mailbox because of other important correspondence I like to have archived on hand at all times (not on my computer but on my iPad).

So what am I to do? I now have to spend half an hour manually selecting 732 message bubbles to delete them, just because Apple in all it's glorious wisdom, won't put a Select All function in. And I am the biggest Apple advocate, don't get me wrong. I love my Apples. I've converted my entire family, grandparents, uncles, aunties, etc to them. But this seems like a very functional option which Apple are being extremely stubborn about not including. And this is not even a current debate. People have been asking in this thread since 2011. And for every person who asked it here it, there's probably 1 million in the consumer marketplace thinking it (don't ask me to prove that, because I'm not going to).

It's the equivalent of not being able to close all Apps in your dock with one motion. Seriously Apple, stop trying to mold your consumers and just listen to them.

To quote igmackenzie from page 1

"That makes no sense to me. You have to select which ones are junk in the first place! If you had a 'select all' button, you'd still have to go through them all to deselect which ones weren't junk."

Select all is unnecessary and rather dangerous. If you need it there is something wrong with the way mail is being used or set up.

For Pete, sake, Mr Watt, What are you talking about?

the idea is to use keyword like "groupon" (an online hawker of trinkets in US ( America as you call it)), search for emails with that word

then only groupon related emails show up/display.

he wants to get rid of all of those groupon emails

same in junk mail, I just want to empty junk mail all at once.

Actually Yahoo, for Pete Sake, allows you to trash all selected emails. the very thing we are asking for.

my proposal, is you forward gmail to yahoo mail, then clean them up in there.

or install gmail app on iPad, works better than including gmail in your emails that come into iPad.

Problem, is if you have both, gmail emails get double counted.

Johny Ives is English, Ey, maybe we Americans cannot just explain it to the english.

I'm curious, how does mail on a Mac handle this? Just wondering if it's some sort of Apple theology, or something to do with iOS per se. I do get a recurrent feeling that Apple doesn't want iOS devices used for 'work', but maybe that's just me.

No, you are right, dont understand a word of what you said Kedubob.