Can't delete gmail in inbox, only archive swipe

More specifically

Settings

Mail, contacts, calendar

GMail account in question

go to Account

advanced

move discarded messages to: check "deleted mailbox".

Archive is default for some reason.

On iOS, head to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars and select one of the email accounts you have set up in Mail. Next, go to Account > Advanced and in the Move Discarded Messages Into area, select either Deleted Mailbox or Archive Mailbox.

And for OSX:

On OS X, open the Mail app and go to Mail > Preferences. On the Viewing tab, you can choose either Trash or Archive for Swipe Left To.

The Advanced menu is in Settings>Accounts & Passwords. Then choose the email account you want, and on the next screen, you'll see Account (and your email address), with a right arrow...hit that address and THEN you'll see the Advanced option mentioned in the incomplete responses above. Try that sequence, should be self explanatory from here. Have a great day!

Hey corholmes49!

You will want to go to your mail settings and see if there are any settings pertaining to this preference that will change that option:

Mail settings - iPhone

http://help.apple.com/iphone/7/#/iph5ca4d6a69

Take care, and thanks for visiting the Apple Support Communities.

Cheers,

Braden

"And see". C'mon. What kind of an answer is that? I'm really hoping you don't work for apple. The answer is definitely NOT helpful. There is no such option available on my new iPhone. Is it a special bonus option available only to a few lucky iPhone owners?

The emails I want to trash only go to a mystery archive folder simewhere. Checking in my normal archive folder they are not going there. Where is the mystery archive folder? The big question is why are we no longer allowed to trash emails?

Please, no more "and see " answers. its either there or not. In this case "not."

No, it was not easy to switch to trash. You No, it is not easy. You are an advanced user obviously. Anyone attempting to do this needs to know that is a confusing puzzle that apple has set up for us and it seems they want us normal, non techies to not succeed and have our trashed email go to some mystery archive folder that we can't see. The emails I tried to delete did not go to my archive folder. Where does apple send them? Good luck to everyone trying to figure out that setting to trash their emails. It can be done but it's not easy and a waste of time

How do you do this in iOS 11? There isn’t an Advanced menu in the Mail settings that I can see.

I clicked helpful, but I was actually looking for an "unhelpful" option. Your answer was painfully incomplete. Even one or two more steps, as someone posted below, woould have been more helpful.

You're welcom, corholmes49! Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities. Have a good one!

-Braden