How can I delete all emails at once from IPhone?

Thank you Sparkleberry, it worked for me.

It did take a VERY long time to move the messages to the trash. I have several thousand.

Pity there's not a way of deleting "all old messages" (older than a year, say).

I use "POP" email, so not "exchange". So deleting them from the server doesn't affect the iPhone atall. Thus your instructions were very useful, thank you.

You can't...unfortunately. Login to those websites and do it from there.

karolanne wrote:

I want to be able to delete all of my emails at one time from my IPhone. I have to mail accounts: Yahoo and Gmail.

There is no feature to delete all emails unless you're on IOS 8 - but you can't with your phone.

Log into your email account on a browser and mass delete that way and it will reflect on your phone, I assume Yahoo and Gmail is set up as an IMAP accouint.

karolanne wrote:

I want to be able to delete all of my emails at one time from my IPhone. I have to mail accounts: Yahoo and Gmail.

http://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/technology/2014/01/how-to-delete-al l-mail-messages-from-iphoneipad-in-one-step/

>> Open Inbox >> Edit >> Mark All >> Mark As Read

>> 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!

The fastest way to mass delete emails on an iPhone is to delete the account(s) housing the emails.

Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > [your email account(s)] > Delete Account

Karolanne,

See my reply here

deleting multiple emails on my ipad

Try this

• Go to your Inbox folder
• Tap on the "Edit"-Button on the top right
• Select the first email in your list
• Hold down the "Move" button
• While you are still holding the "Move"-Button, deselect the first E-Mail
• Put away all your fingers from the screen and wait a few seconds
• Now Mail asks you where to move ALL of your emails
• Select the Trash Folder as destination
• From inside the Trash Folder, you can delete all items at once

Sparkleberry wrote:

Karolanne,

See my reply here

deleting multiple emails on my ipad

Try this

• Go to your Inbox folder
• Tap on the "Edit"-Button on the top right
• Select the first email in your list
• Hold down the "Move" button
• While you are still holding the "Move"-Button, deselect the first E-Mail
• Put away all your fingers from the screen and wait a few seconds
• Now Mail asks you where to move ALL of your emails
• Select the Trash Folder as destination
• From inside the Trash Folder, you can delete all items at once

Deja vu...

Nuking your mail account is not a solution.

I've tried everything to delete my old emails and they keep coming back. I even deleted my account and when I re-established it, the old emails came back in chunks of 250. It's absolutely nuts!!! Is this some Microsoftian way Apple is trying to get us in the iCloud? It's very annoying that users can not batch-delete old emails.

jubbling wrote:

Nuking your mail account is not a solution.

Well, it would not work if you have an IMAP account, in which case all your emails are stored on the email provider's server.

Naturally, in that case, you would have to delete the emails from the provider's server. The easiest way to do that from an iPhone would be to delete one email at a time, or several by selecting Edit, choosing a few emails and then deleting them.

As you say, there is no "nuking" solution at all for an IMAP account.

Well if that isn't a convoluted way to do things. Good job Apple.

Delete all em

How do i delete all my yahoo emails all at once

Thank you! This is a wonderful workaround to a very serious ongoing interface mistake by Apple. You have saved me so much time and frustration!!