mass delete of email

If I might humbly submit:

Take the 'Hold move' trick, and couple it with this 'Delete from server'.

http://suiteminute.com/how-to-mass-delete-emails-from-iphone-and-ipad-inbox/

It works apparently. I work for one of the cellular carriers that carries the iPhone, and we get this problem. I use these two fixes together, and Wonder Twins Activate! Form of: Apple i-email Delete Patch!

It definitely worked for me.

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I have tried ALL suggestions offered and still the same emails keep reloading onto iPhone. I have deleted everything off the server and tried numerous times to move them to trash and they just will not go away. Beyond frustrated!

Delete the mail account from your iPhone.

Go to the main website for your email account and verify that all emails have been deleted.

Create a backup of your iPhone.

Erase the iPhone.

Restore the backup.

Add the mail account back onto your iPhone.

You may not need to do the steps in italics, but if you only do steps 1,2 & 6 and it doesn't work, try all the steps in order again.

Here you go- this works!

There is a perfect way of deleting ALL emails at once without jailbreaking your iphone or ipad…and here it is:

>> Open Inbox >> Edit >> Mark All >> Mark As Read [Added May 21, 2014 by Adrian; this extra step makes the difference between success & failure for some.]

>> Open Inbox >> Edit >> Check/select the top message; it will highlight the move button.

>> Press and hold the move button and uncheck the message that you had checked earlier.

>> Lift all your fingers off from the ipad screen and leave it alone. Wait until all your messages pile up on the right hand portion of the screen (in ipad); iphone will give you the actual number of emails it has selected for the action. Now they are just waiting for your command to be moved ALL at once.

>> Choose trash to delete all of them or any other folder where u want to move them, like one piece. Remember this will replicate your action on the server so you will ACTUALLY move them or delete them on the server and not just the ipad.

Once you have moved all messages to the trash you can either leave them there for the scheduled cleaning or empty it right away by doing this: go to trash folder and touch Edit. The Delete All button shows up at the bottom of the screen. Hit it! You’re done!

If you do not see the effects of your actions on the server make sure you have enabled your email accounts for such actions.

Nope. Tried that. Even went to the server and manually deleted everything from there to make sure it couldn't re-update the phone. Went out of the app; went in; all emails back again.

This represents just one more reason why, after an 18 month experiment with Apple products, I have had enough. It's shame, since there is much about them that I like, but I'm tired of the arrogance and almost cult-like blind devotion of too many of their users. If such people were less inclined to defend Apple with such inane comments as "Well, Apple obviously do it that way for a reason", and started actually taking Apple to task over their "We know what's best for you" attitude, the company and its products might just have a chance of surviving the next ten years. But I'm not holding my breath.

Bama350Z Thank you! This works. Just make sure you actually MARK ALL READ before you do it. I spent hours frustrated before I marked all read by mistake and then it worked. It worked for me on iphone 4S iOS7 and iphone 5. (Someone else gave me this trick without the MARK ALL READ first instruction).

Marking all as read BEFORE doing the hold and "move to trash" trick worked for me.

UPDATE: This did not work. After a few minutes the messages returned. The messages had been deleted (and purged) from the server prior to deleting them on the iPhone, so it is obviously grabbing them from hidden/archived info on the phone.

Mark all your emails as unread and it should allow you to delete all.

To all,

I have had the same problem of not being able to mass delete emails from my Iphone. I have many clients asking me how to do it and I am unable to provide them a satisfactory answer. I suspect that apple makes it difficult to mass delete for a reason and they do not intend to provide an easy way for people to mass delete emails. The reason is simple - They want our emails to fill up our ICloud accounts so that we keep upgrading to higher data storage plans. Most users won't realize that their Icloud storage space is being filled up by junk emails and they automatically will upgrade to a higher storage plan when they receive the warning message that their storage is full. Apple can easily provide a mass delete function but in my opinion, they made it difficult for a reason.

Open the mail app go to the folder where you want to delete emails from, tap edit tap mark all then tap trash if it is the inbox folder you want messages gone from. In the other folders tap edit then tap delete all.

Really? Try doing that with the 9,101 mail messages my phone refuses to let go of.

Mark as read first. made all the difference!

this worked for me - thanks! Over 1000 junk emails deleted in one go - brilliant.

Thank you so much, the mark as read works!!!! bravo to you for figuring this out,

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