iOS 10 Mail delete all function?

this response is incorrect, it is no longer there?

Apple, please put this 'Delete All' back. It was incredibly useful. I too only have 'Mark All' in Blue, which means we have to tick off every single entry, rather than delete the lot in one go. Why would you remove such a useful tool? I look forward to its return asap.

Agreed. This is super annoying. I frequently select every message in my Inbox to archive in one swoop.

Hi Irina,

When I click Edit the "Mark All" is blue but my "Trash" is greyed out. The only choice you get to from "Mark All" is "Mark as Read" or "Flag". Delete All or Trash never get highlighted.

Marc

Hi,

Found this on another site. Ugly but works...

Just Found this solution on the cult of mac website:

You can still trash all emails at once... it's just more convoluted.

Go to your inbox, Tap Edit, then Mark All, and then Mark All as Read. This will then close the Edit mode.

Tap Edit again, and tap the top message in the inbox. Press and hold the Move button with your thumb.

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

You will then be on a screen with a trash icon, click it and your emails are deleted.

Not quite as simples as the old way but it solves the problem.

Marc

You get a gold star for this one, Marc. It looks like quite a few folks have inquired/complained about this problem. I hope they find your solution (and I hope Apple wises up and fixes it).

Thanks.🙂

Absolutely not helpful for me - there is no "Delete All in blue" only 'flag;' 'mark as read;' and 'cancel'- all in blue!

Not sure if you updated to ios10 because your instructions are not true in ios 10.

TThe solution given here does NOT work....edit > mark all. There is no Delete option on "flag" and "mark as read" very annoying to have to delete every email one by one. Not to mention bad idea to have to "open" a spam message as it will only result in more spam....please fix this ASAP. It should never have changed in the first place.

This no longer works for iOS 0 -- please give us an updated answer that is correct or tell Apple to fix this bug and give us back the option to "delete all" that we had in iOS 9

I have just installed ios 10, found the instructions below and they worked for me on any folder.

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

Awesome - thanks so much - this is working for me at the moment. Still hope Apple fixes this oversight with the new iOS. Thanks again

There is no Delete All in iOS 10, on my iPhone...

What's up with that?

Wrong, the delete all has been removed from the new iOS 10 update. PLEASE get it back!

Thanks for posting this link. iOS 10 disabled one of my POP email accounts and the only fix is the delete the account then re-Add the account. Well this resulted in thousands of email being downloaded to my iphone. The process in the link leaves out one important factor. You must manually delete one email to create the Trash folder or you cannot move the selected emails to the Trash. Mark all of the as Read was not necessary for me. YMMV.

Fred