How do i mass delete emails?

Hello there, Borderline11.

The following information from the iOS 7 iPhone User's Guide provides instruction on how this is done:

Work with multiple messages - iPhone

http://help.apple.com/iphone/7/#/iph9db03b2f5

Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.

Cheers,

Pedro.

I have the same problem on my ipad and cant use-email on it till i find out how to do a bulk-select all and delete as i have 5000 e-mails that will down load. Apple is scilent on this problem

the apple way requires you to manually select each message and then delete it would take me several hours or days to do this.

Don't you just love it when a supposed specialist reply without a viable solution? there is now way to empty your mailbox in IOS7 you bulk delete and they all email sown right back, tell us how to delete over 2000 messages at once without them spwning backl please, I know the following:
press edit

select the first messahe

press and hold "move"

while holding "move" deselect the first message

let go of "move"

the screen chenges where you can select where would you like to move all selected messages

select "trash"

great you see all 2000 + messages going into trash , screen goes back to an empty inbox, wonderfull right? WRONG go back to mailboxes and press inbox again they all spawn back

Help please

I tried Xguy's method after watching a YouTube video that demonstrated the same method. For me using an iPad Air with 16 gigs of free space crashed the mail program:

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Incident Identifier: 4B7B0C12-BF98-4D32-8C71-3D6F905972D2

CrashReporter Key: 7c567778b4ede283285ba662fe7b808f8b58f00b

Hardware Model: iPad4,2

OS Version: iPhone OS 7.1 (11D167)

Kernel Version: Darwin Kernel Version 14.0.0: Fri Feb 21 19:40:58 PST 2014; root:xnu-2423.10.67~1/RELEASE_ARM64_S5L8960X

Date: 2014-04-03 08:13:02 -0700

Time since snapshot: 125 ms

Free pages: 5716

Active pages: 73518

Inactive pages: 33592

Speculative pages: 3920

Throttled pages: 0

Purgeable pages: 0

Wired pages: 106601

File-backed pages: 10612

Anonymous pages: 100418

Compressions: 3197312

Decompressions: 1300875

Compressor Size: 29905

Uncompressed Pages in Compressor: 89894

Largest process: MobileMail

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**End**

Apple could add a select all button that will check all the boxes for deleation seems simple to me If microsoft can do it Apple should be able to do it.