iOS 10 Mail delete all function?

Sorry, but I'll never use that s**t. It gives me hives.

All accounts removed, but Mail is still using 800Mb of memory. ***... I'm going to reset the phone.

Steve Jobs, please send them a sign!!!!

Apple personnel are not here - so not able to read you telling them that they need to read this. It's been stated here many times what you need to do if you want to supply feedback directly to Apple.

HI, contacted Apple Support today about the "Delete All" facility being removed. The lady I spoke to was very sympathetic, but agreed it was no longer there. She had had many complaints about this , but said there was nothing she could do. She did ,however, suggest I email Apple themselves and complain. She gave me the link for this and I have sent them an email. I hope other apple users do the same. I think it's the only way to get this facility back.

the link was

http://www.apple.com/feedback/mail.html

hope everyone who reads this and agrees will email them.

Please note that the Apple suppport link mentioned is for OSX and MacOS, not iOS. There must be one somewhere.

This works....the key part is

While holding the Move button, uncheck the top message, and then release the Move button.

Thanks!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Marc, this did the trick. 🙂

I have this issue with some mail providers and not others as I currently have 6 different mailboxes setup with a variety of different services. 1 outlook, 1 gmail, 3 imap and 1 exchange.

To restore this functionality this is what has worked for me as the option was missing when using my outlook email but not my other mailboxes, however please read through these instructions first before attempting this as you may need to search online the imap and smtp details from your mail provider but these instructions should be enough to guide you through the steps for setting up the email on your iPhone/iPad.

1. Go to settings >> Mail >> Accounts and find the account that doesnt have the "delete all" option

2. Click the account and at the top above account box it should say in small grey text what kind of account it is (e.g exchange, imap,gmail,outlook)

3. If it using outlook (my offending mailbox) press delete at the bottom and remove it

3. Choose add account >> Other >> Add mail account (This is where you may need to find some details)

4. Fill in the New account details with your Name, Email, Password and such.

5. You will see a new screen with a few blank boxes for "Incoming/outgoing Mail Server".

Your username should just be your email but this may differ from your provider.

You will also need to find these details from your mail provider but the outlook ones are below

Incoming mail server: imap-mail.outlook.com

outgoing mail server: smtp-mail.outlook.com

6.Once completed these details press next and then itll ask you to sync mail and notes, tick which you want and press save.

7. Check your mail boxes and you should have the delete all option back.

I can understand why, but when using the automatic setup options for select mailboxes, it stops this option. but ive had 100% sucess rate in switching them to use imap. However I can't say that this will work for everyone but its certainly worked for me and im hoping maybe it'll work for someone else if they are having this same issue, as it seems to be driving alot of people crazy at the moment with iOS 10 removing this function.

Didn't work for me

Thank you! this worked for me. :-)

You've got to be ******** me?!?!?!?

How bad can things get here...

Irwina seems incorrect

VERY frustrating...seems like apple has removed the "delete all" except in Trash folder? some of the "community experts" have said otherwise, but it looks like they are wrong...how do I delete 6000 emails quickly from my iPhone 6 running iOS 10? in fact it seems like phantoms are creeping back in from using "Mark all" etc...this MUST be fixed asap!! cmon apple....Irwina (I think was her name on community head) seems dead wrong

These directions do not work

Yes they do, it can be a little tricky but I use this work around all the time on my iPhone and iPad

It's seem there's a mixed response to wether this is actually working, however after rexamining my own mailbox, it does appear to only work for my trash and junk mailboxes, the inbox doesn't show this Function.

If you could let me know your email providers for instance be it hotmail, gmail or other and I can look into solutions for those who it doesn't work for, even though this shouldn't be an issue at all.