Where is the all button to select to delete emails

There is NO "delete all" function for the Inbox. Only the Trash folder has that capability. Inbox messages have to be individually selected for deletion.

To delete them from your inbox folder, hit Edit in the right corner above and mark the ones you want to delete, then hit the red Delete button. To delete the messages from the Waste folder, open this folder and hit Edit gain, then hit " Delete all" to get rid of them at once.

You would want to check the "select all" box located on the top left corner (in most cases). Then just click the delete button.

There is no "select all" button for the Inbox or subfolders. Only the Trash folder has a "Delete All" button on the bottom left of the Edit screen

Who in their right mind doesnt have a select all button. More Apple stupidity thinking that they know best for their customers. I get hundreds of emails at work and literally dont have time to keep deleting them individually.

It would be supremely moronic to have a "delete all" button for an inbox on a smartphone. Accidentally deleting an important email way, way, way trumps the inconvenience of manually selecting to delete.

Very few people get "hundreds" of emails to delete each day. Do you really read each one on your iPhone?? If so, why wouldn't you delete them after reading, one at a time? If they're so inconsequential that you don't even bother to read and just bulk delete everything in your inbox, why not just deactivate the account? If you're dealing with tons of spam, many mailservers have spam filter options.

All leading email applications, including mobile ones (Blackberry, Android), and free email providers (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo...) all have a "Select All" function after a Search has been performed.

1. Delete spams from same sender/subject/content

2. Mark multiple emails from same sender as read (e.g. newsletters) with a simple Search + Mark All As Read, or delete them with a simple Search + Delete All.

3. Move multiple emails with same criterion

Example: "I have a subscription to many newsletters. Each of them send me douzens of emails daily. Today, I have read the titles of all my emails from CNN. After opening those that I felt the need to further reading, there are still 35 of them marked unread. I just want to do Search CNN->Mark All As Read to finish with CNN and move to Reuters, etc. Not select them 1-by-1."

To stay competitive as an email platform for any purpose, Apple must implement it ASAP.

Nobody likes to see "350 unread emails" when they know 345 of them (many of which have same sender/subject) don't need to be opened.

1-by-1 selection is particularly painful on a smartphone.

Which means 9 months have passes and the team refuses to recognize the need for correcting functional flaws suggested by its own users. If we dig into the forum, this topic is actually as old as iPhone itself.

No one working for Apple here, maybe, (did anyone ask?) but some interestingly keep defending pointlessly against apple sympathizers and customers who are only looking for common functionalities.

Let's beat the competition with this kind of attitude.

Yeah, start a revolution.

p.s. I would hate to delete all my e-mail at once though.

Another who "doesn't work" for apple. No comment.

Which means 9 months have passes and the team refuses to recognize the need for correcting functional flaws suggested by its own users.

There is no "team" here. Read the forum Terms of Use you agreed to when you joined. Apple doesn't read or respond here.

As for the "9 months", the complete lack of posts about this "flaw" during that time only proves to everyone the total insignificance of your request. A delete all button in the inbox would be insanely stupid. If you really have 350 emails/day to your inbox and all you do is delete them all, you have other problems to deal with...