iOS 10 mail...no delete all

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The only way to get Apple to listen to you is to use their feedback portion of their website. Apple DOES read the feedback, but they still do not respond with any personal replies.

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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.

I Have the same problem and it's really frustrating! The only way around it I've found is here: http://osxdaily.com/2016/09/27/delete-all-mail-ios-10/ It's not really the answer as Apple needs to put the 'Delete All' option back but this will do for now.

I hope someone finds it useful.

Leah x

prestonT2020 found a way. Here is his post. It works quite well. "I finally found a way. Click edit > select ONE piece of mail > hold move > while still holding move, unselect the mail > let go of move > select trash mailbox > go to the trash mailbox > delete all > Done"

This is so annoying, I went on holiday for two weeks without my phone and came back to over 500 junk emails. In the end I set up my email address in Microsoft outlook on a work PC. Selected them all to delete then opened email on my phone. When it refreshed they all went. Should not have to do it that way though.

Did you try prestonT2020 workaround?. Here is his post. It works quite well. "I finally found a way. Click edit > select ONE piece of mail > hold move > while still holding move, unselect the mail > let go of move > select trash mailbox > go to the trash mailbox > delete all > Done"

I'm not sure if anyone else found a solution, but I'll post what works for me....

1. Click Edit

2. Click the first message.

3. Press and hold the move button.

4. While holding Move, unblock the message.

5. Release Move button and the "mailbox screen will pop up...

6. Click Trash and Voila!

Go to Inbox or other mailboxs that have no "Delete All", and click Edit on the top corner. Step 2. After selecting one email, press and hold the "Move" on the bottom and then uncheck the email you selected. (Make sure not release "Move" until you uncheck all the items you checked before.)

Depending on what service you use for email, you can easily get this functionality back if you use this iOS email client app, instead.

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THE ANSWER:

https://www.imobie.com/support/delete-all-emails-iphone-ipad.htm

In any Inbox - Select an email from Edit. Hold down Move and deselect the email without letting go of Move. Let go of Move, and it takes you to a screen that will let you TRASH ALL!

So excited. I had to create an account and share bc this is the most frustrating problem. Thanks internet!

Apparently, yes, deleted emails can return with a POP email program. I thought I'd finally deleted all my emails, using the crafty "move" approach above. A few minutes later, not only did they return, but now I have DOUBLE the amount of emails I had before!!!

To delet all on iOS 10 go to your inbox hit the edit button mark the first message then hold down on the move button while holding down on the move button deselect the first message then take your all your fingers off the screen and wait a few seconds and then it will give you the option of where to move all messages. It works I had the same problem and just did this and it worked. I deleted all my messages in my inbox. Hope this helps!

Log into the mail account itself and delete the messages, or at least move them out of the inbox and into some other folder if you want to hang onto them.

I think the iPhone has a problem with POP messaging. Set it up to use IMAP if you have the choice.

TThat option just saved me hours of deleting over 2000 messages I did just that as you said and was able to move all to trash the delete all your awesome thanks I don't even think apple customer services know of this as was on the phone to them for ages trying to get a solution my fingers thank you my eyes thank you my head hanks you and my numb as thanks you. Thank you so much Michaela

I agree, I had to tell it to apple care as well.

My continuing problem was after getting everything to the trash, the emails kept coming back (yes, they'd been removed from the server, and yes it is a POP account). When I finally got my inboxes to read "no mail", my iphone storage kept telliing me that over 2GB were being used by mail. The solution was to delete the email account and then re-add it. Old emails finally gone!