Q: iOS 10 Mail delete all function?

It's a bit of a pain in the a$$ but I found this work around:

>> 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.  iphone will give you the actual number of emails it has selected for the action.

>> 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 iphone.

IIt's only on my iPad Air too? My iPhone 6+ has been upgraded and I still have the 'old' function of deleting blocks of emails.... which suggests, surely, that it's a glitch? Come on Apple, pick this up please it's REALLY annoying  

Doesn't work. Big pain in the behind!

IIt's only on my iPad Air too? My iPhone 6+ has been upgraded and I still have the 'old' function of deleting blocks of emails.... which suggests, surely, that it's a glitch? Come on Apple, pick this up please it's REALLY annoying

Good work, Marc!

Good work, Marc!  That does solve the problem.  I hope Apple brings back the Trash All capability in the next version of the iPhone operating system.

Thank you  for finding this work around. Works Great! I hope Apple realizes their error by leaving this feature out of IOS 10

It is as always when it comes to client services with Apple - they don't care. Even on their own discussion-board, where is my Blackberry :-)

'Delete All' is not available in ios10

The apple response is not accurate.  ios10 shows markall in blue but there is no delete all in blue.  The only options that show are those in the original question.  Please provide an accurate response to this issue.  Pretty annoying to have to delete all the junk one email at a time.

I Just now discovered how to delete all. Try it it works!!!

1. Go to your Inbox folder.
2. Tap on the "Edit"-Button on the top right.
3. Select the first email in your list.
4. Hold down the "Move" button.
5. While you are still holding the "Move"-Button, deselect the first E-Mail.
6. Put away all your fingers from the screen and wait a few seconds.
7. Now Mail asks you where to move ALL of your emails.

More items...

I Just now found out how to delete all.

1. Go to your Inbox folder.
2. Tap on the "Edit"-Button on the top right.
3. Select the first email in your list.
4. Hold down the "Move" button.
5. While you are still holding the "Move"-Button, deselect the first E-Mail.
6. Put away all your fingers from the screen and wait a few seconds.
7. Now Mail asks you where to move ALL of your emails.

More items...

Thanks, that works!

This is false. This tip is unhelpful and wrong

irina_w

Follow these instructions and you should be able to delete all messages in a folder.

1. open the Mail app
2. select the Mail folder you want to empty
3. in the upper right hand corner tap Edit
4. at the bottom you should see Mark All and Delete All in blue
5. select Delete All and it will ask you again, Delete All or Cancel
6. select Delete All and it will delete all the email in that folder

This is the functionality we had in iOS 9.  iOS 10 does not work this way.  There is no Delete All.