iOS 10 Mail delete all function?

Brilliant, thanks. "Removed by mistake..."? Sheesh.

Here's one change they didn't make by mistake: in the Australian version of iOS10, they changed "Trash" to "Bin". Now there's cultural sensitivity for you!

I DID do an intense search as to "What happened to the TRASH ALL button?" It is NOT in iOS10. I even downloaded the ios10 user manual, and there is NO listing for a TRASH ALL button. They put it in on ios9, I believe, and it was a welcome blessing.....WHO wants to INDIVIDUALLY hundreds of emails every day!!!??? What coding MORON did this?

Recent update did NOT include a fix for this intentional omission. Evidently Apple doesn't want to hear our voices of complaint, as issued in feedback.

There are two work-arounds in this thread. One is the procedure for iOS9. It doesn't work in iOS10. The Mark As Read/Hold the Move button (Steve CW and several others) is clunky but it does work with iOS10.

Please bring back the delete/trash all function!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#fail

This is a serious regression/defect in iOS 10. It's so bad that I've stopped using my iPhone and iPad for my home e-mail account due to the large amount of spam I get. I'm back to MS Outlook, which has a fairly decent spam filter.

Why the heck would Apple decide to REMOVE functionality in iOS? This is the sort of crap IBM used to pull.

I seriously douby any of these apple coders use the mail app themselves, if they did they would never remove the delete all functions....morons indeed.

This is false. While the "Delete All" option is still available in the Trash folder, the "Trash All" option has been purposely removed from all other folders in the Edit context of the iOS 10 Mail app. This is a bad move for Apple.

Re: iOS 10 mail app move all/trash all

Here is the real issue: the ios 10 upgrade is different on different iphone models. I have a 6+ and am also angry because the Trash ALL option is gone and the workaround posted MANY times isn't available to me at all. However, my boyfriend has and iphone SE and his ios 10 upgrade DID NOT REMOVE the Trash All option!

I never knew that all iphones did not get the same features in upgrades, but his Trash All option is still there. Mine is not!

Check for yourself with someone who has a different iphone model and see if this function is still there. It IS there on his SE.

I Think it is safe to say after reading your post and others, that once ios10 was downloaded and installed, SOMETHING got corrupted. That's why so many people have so many variations of what and how to delete numerous emails. I don't have a DELETE ALL or a TRASH ALL in my Trash folder....others do!

i EXPECTED to see the fix for this in the last update the end of last week. Well.....NO- it was NOT addressed!

Is there an alternative email app to this crap?

Thank you, Marc. That solution works, cumbersome and unintuitive as it is.

Searching I found this answer it works!

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

bad idea to let spammers know you "read" their emails....will wait for Apple to come with trash all button....really don't understand why they don't fix this s***t