iOS 8 mail app only archives even when set to delete for gmail

I'm getting similar behaviour. If I swipe to Achieve with my Google Apps account I momentarily see the message, then it disappears. However in my case they don't even appear in my All Mail folder.

I've effectively lost a few days worth of e-mails that I thought I had Archived. Uh!

Seems to work properly for me. Are we looking at the same place? to instruct it to Delete instead of Archive:

In Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > (select account) > Account (select your e-mail address) > Advanced.

Mailbox Behavior for Deleted Mailbox: Trash.

then

Move Discarded Messages Into: Deleted Mailbox.

It wasn't this way by default. Move Discarded was Archive, and it gave the results you described. Changing that to Deleted works for me.

I set the Swipe left-to-right to Archive. So now one swipe will Archive, the other will Delete.

oooh... p.s.... this seems to work as well:

http://www.imore.com/how-use-archive-and-trash-simultaneously-ios-8-mail-app

I had the same problem and deativated the google apps exchange account and set it up as a Google (IMAP) account and the problem went away. The exchange account worked fine on iOS 7. This seems to be an ios 8.1.1 issue with Google exchange. I prefer to use exchange over IMAP and hope Apple will fix this on their next update.

I was becoming frustrated with the same thing and found this thread. I have google apps setup as exchange on my iPhone and this worked.

Here is the fix:

1. Open Safari and go to m.google.com/sync/settings from your device. For some reason Chrome on desktop doesn't have complete list but from Safari on phone they are all shown.

2. Choose your device from the list if you have more than one

3. Check the Enable "Delete Email As Trash" for this device

4. Click Save

Found here:

http://www.coolheadtech.com/resources/get-your-iphone-to-delete-messages-in-goog le-apps

thanks, this worked for me as well. I have logged into m.google.com/sync/settings, but some how from getting a new phone and/or upgrading to ios 8 it caused it to archive vs. trash by default frusterating to have months of deleted email sitting in archive I now need to delete manually via gmail on web

I was having these problems as well, but set up my gmail settings separating mail & contacts into different accounts with the ios Mail programs, not exchange settings. But going into the account settings for each gmail account, under advanced I located the problem. There are two options... Archive & delete. Select delete and the problems fixed. Also there are options to deal with where archive goes.... Given the major annoyance that deleted mail goes into the All Mail folder on gmail and then Ned's to be deleted once again later.

hmmm, well this doesn't quite work either. I have 3 gMail accounts and each operates differently on iOS 8/iPad.

The left swipe for all accounts results in the red trash block showing.

Account #1 - Advanced -> Mailbox Behaviors -> Deleted Mail -> Trash & Move Discarded Messages Into - > Trash Mailbox

Archived Mail -> All Mail (You can select Trash, but backing out & reentering -> reverts to All Mail)

Account #2 - All the same behaviors, except you cannot select Trash in the first place.

I guess the only upside, instead of having the "file box" at the top of the email application, there is now a "trash can" for quick deletion of emails while reading the email headers & first few lines of text (not swiping left). Wouldn't just having both a trash can (trash) & a file box (Archive) at the top be easier? Why is it only one or the other???

Thank you mayerg11! My school is utilizing the Exchange method of connecting and I was getting frustrated with my efforts to keep Trash deleted, as I only like to archive the more important items.

chris 🙂

Thank you very much!

The swipe left to "archive" instead of "delete" has been bugging me for several days. Your post helped me solve the mistry. Also, the shake to "undo delete" works consistently now. What a relief. Thnks.

...Jeff