delete emails in bulk?

edit.

select each one

delete

Delete them from the server by logging in to your email on a web browser.

To delete from the device:

1. Open up the inbox that you want to delete from and choose edit

2. Select only the first message and you will see the "move" option appear on the bottom

3. Press and hold "move" and uncheck the message you selected, then release all buttons. You will see your mailbox folder options

4. Select the "trash" folder. This will delete all selected messages.

Thanks but they are no longer on the server. I need to delete them from the ipad

This means doing it one by one? There is a mark all option but then no apparent way of deleting all those marked unless I am missing something?

I am with Sallymw - Sprint copied material from old iPhone onto new 4S, but multiplied the emails x6 to over 35.000. These emails are only on the iPhone, not on gmail site accessable by my laptop. Any way to purge the emails from the iPhone 4S in bulk, not 1 to 1?

It is many years overdue that Apple software writers fix this annoying issue. Just this Friday, I left my phone off until Sunday morning. There were 212 messages in my mailbox. I had to hunt and peck like a circus animal through hoops to eliminate them all. This happens all day, every day. These are the same messages on my home computer and laptop which can be eliminated by highlighting all and deleting. It's pointless and insane, as well as laziness on Apple's part. I don't care how others need to hold on to or delete their info, at least allow the user to eliminate emails in chunks without having to tap hundreds of times like we're non-paying children.

Your method of bulk deleting emails has always worked brilliantly...until recently. Now, when I try this, it only shows me the option of moving TO MY INBOX! The Trash option no longer shows up. What could possible have happened? A bug in the latest iOS, 8.3?

There is no trash ICON after I do this. SO now what?