iOS 10 mail app move all/trash all

What makes this even more ridiculous is the continued existence of a "Delete All" option in the Trash folder. Apple is worried about users inadvertently sending everything from a folder to Trash, but couldn't care less about the unrecoverable action of permanently deleting messages from Trash. There's some logic for you.

Please bring back "Move All" and "Trash All".

I posted feedback, and urge all affected users to do the same.

I miss that function too!

Could be as an option in mail settings...

Thats bad news. Why would ply guardian over ppl that don't pay attention to there emails. Not making sense as someone could just go in the trash folder and get the emails. But this also has to do withe setting up mail, what appears too much for some ppl.

I used the "trash all" for an seperate email account for my home security system notifications..

At times i get 80+ emails from motion dedection, now i have to delete those 1 by 1.!

THanks apple and thanks those who are to lazy to get to know your device.

We iOS people aren't very smart or responsible and need Apple to keep us from accidents. I'm so glad they up and decide to take precautionary action by removing useful time saving features and feel that wasting my time is no big deal. im totally ok with having to select thousands of emails a year on the off chance of my pooping my pants. I've never pooped my pants before but its worth spending the extra hours a year to avoid rare mistakes. Go Hillary - Go Apple - be responsible for me, take care of me cuz I'm a freaking potential pants pooper.

Apple urgently need to fix this! It's too time consuming. Do they not get emails themselves to understand this. If it's in your bin it means it's already been deleted from elsewhere, so from your bin you the have the opportunity to move it back if it was a mistake or get rid of it.

I've tried this method, it works then about 5 min. later, all emails are back. What am I doing wrong?

Yeah, Apple - I'm really going to click on each one of 8300 emails to trash them. How about I go i to an Apple store and let a genius spend a few hours deleting my email?

Tuns out there is a way to delete all messages in the inbox. It's more involved but seems to work. Search on the topic and you can find the way to do it. My new issue is that my Mail icon still shows a la number of emails but they are not there.

I saw that too. However try first to mark them all as read. e.g. Edit->Mark All->Mark as read. and then use the delete all procedure I outlined in a previous post. That worked for me.

Wouldn't it have made more sense to simply add a warning when a person selects "trash all" that alerts the user that this will in fact delete all their email, and ask them if they wish to continue? If they still chose to continue, then that would be their fault if all their email was "accidently" deleted. To completely remove the function is an awful solution.

THANK YOU!!!! this STUPID idea to remove the "trash all" has been really making me mad since I did the upgrade a few weeks ago and now you SAVED MY LIFE LOL!! You are brilliant++++ how in the world did you figure the solution? Again, bless you for sharing this and lowering my daily stress level 🙂

I too want the trash all functionality returned to my junk mail folder in the Mail app. Anytime you remove functionality like this you anger users. This is the number one reason I refuse to upgrade to iOS 10.

but there is a solution, and it's an easy one to delete all your mail in 2 seconds! she already posted it but here it is again:

Hi All,

I was also very unhappy that trash all has been removed and I still am. I duly complain about it on the above reference link and can only encourage other iPhone users to do the same.

My problem was that I was trying to empty out my approx. 7000 emails. (did Apple really envision that it was smart to single mark 7000 emails and then hit the trash button?) However then I though about it and was wondering of some of the old technic to remove all emails from previous IOS versions was still working (pre Trash All IOS). So here it is.

1) Stand in the inbox you want to trash all in.

2) Select Edit

3) Tap the first email (now move can be selected)

4) Hold down the move button and unselect the email you just tapped

5) Release the move button

6) A new screen appear.

7) Select Trash in that screen

and now all the email in your inbox has been move to the trash folder. (my 7000 emails took approx. 8-10 min to move so be patient if you have many emails)

Problem solve. I knew I could count on Apple developers for creating a backdoor into this.

What I dont understand is why Apple did not allow a Trash All button to appear when you have selected all email. I could agreed that having a trash all button available when you first select Edit could be dangerous for the non savvy user but completed remove it is the wrong move and just take us all down to the least common denominator.

IMO, if you routinely have 1000s of emails in your inbox to trash, you have larger issues then "no way to delete them all at once."

If you have spent more than an hour providing technical support to the typical iOS user, you will fully understand why Apple hides all the sharp knives from them.

I suggest you all make use of your email provider's web portal when needing to manage a mass deletion of messages.

This workaround is unsatisfactory for at least two reasons:

1. The described actions are extremely difficult if not impossible to perform for users with use of only one hand; I am such a user.

2. There is documentation in this thread of the workaround merely hiding the selected messages, instead of actually trashing them or deleting them.

Please desist in posting and reposting this inadequate workaround as if it obviates the need for Apple to restore the Trash all/Delete all functionality. It doesn't.

I deleted all of my messages from the 2 email accounts I have on my iPhone but when I look at SETTINGS/GENERAL/STORAGE/MANAGE USAGE it says I still have 609 MB of mail. I can't believe the MAIL program is that big. How do I free up this memory on my dinky 16GB (actually 11.37 GB, where is the other 4 GB) iPhone?