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How do I empty trash in iPad mail app

How do I empty the trash in iPad mail app?

iPad, iOS 5.0.1

Posted on Apr 9, 2012 5:58 AM

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Posted on Apr 9, 2012 6:05 AM

You can navigate to the Trash folder by tapping your account id at the top of the Inbox to go up a level, and you should then be able to do into account's Trash folder - tap the Edit button at the top of the list of emails in the Trash and you should get a Delete All button appear at the bottom of it.

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Apr 9, 2012 6:05 AM in response to William H. Magill1

You can navigate to the Trash folder by tapping your account id at the top of the Inbox to go up a level, and you should then be able to do into account's Trash folder - tap the Edit button at the top of the list of emails in the Trash and you should get a Delete All button appear at the bottom of it.

Nov 11, 2013 8:05 AM in response to Alfred DeRose

This is correct -- mail.app and gmail.app are two very different programs as is Gmail and iCloud mail or any other mail server, POP or IMAP.


BY DESIGN --Gemail does NOT make it easy to delete mail. It is a two step process, and I have never found any way other than using the Gmail Web interface to do it.


"Trash" and any other mail box on Gemail are purely "cosmetic." Moving things to "trash" has no effect on the message other than to remove it from the previous mail-box. Then, when you empty (delete) that trash, the message is removed from the "trash" folder, but IT IS NOT DELETED!!!


The message still exists in your "All Mail" folder.


To actually delete a message from your Gmail account,

1- you must first open the "All Mail" folder, then mark and move the message(s) to the Trash.

You will get a message about deleting the mail from all-mail.

2- Next open the Trash Folder and select all -- and this time, you will note that the "delete" button now says "delete forever."

3- Click "delete forever" to completely remove the message.


In short, unless the button says "delete forever," you are not "deleting" the mail mesage!

Nov 13, 2013 12:39 AM in response to William H. Magill1

t's true that folders are essentially tags in Gmail, but it is NOT true about Trash emails being retained forever unless you click "delete forever".


The Trash and Spam "folders" are deleted permanently after 30-days. Paying Google Apps accounts have even more control over the duration of time Google retains emails in other folders as well.


The policy is here. https://support.google.com/a/answer/151128?hl=en

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