iPhone 6 updated to iOS 10 lost swipe to delete email

I am using the native iphone email app (iphone 7, ios 10) for my work gmail (google apps) account. The iphone setting are set to move discarded messages to "deleted mail box", but in gmail, they are still going to archive (the "all mail" folder). Can't figure out how to get them to actually delete within Gmail. As far as I know, I have everything set correctly. Anyone have this problem - or know if you do? I actually just noticed they weren't being deleted a couple weeks ago - and thought they were being deleted.

Ok, I discovered this is a Google Apps issue. I checked the functionality on my personal Gmail account, and it's sending emails correctly to the trash folder. On the iphone mail advanced settings, there are more options under my personal gmail account (definitions of draft, archive, deleted email boxes), that aren't shown on the advanced settings for my work/google apps email account. So must be something related to google apps back end.

Thought I found the answer here: http://google.umich.edu/mobile-devices/ios-swipe-to-delete-settings

going into google account settings and enabling delete to go to trash. But sadly, still not working. Maybe it takes a while for setting to take effect. I've spent too many hours on this now, so am signing off. Frustrated!

I am assuming you are talking about a third party email provider as the delete function is still there for iCloud accounts. The gmail account I use only has the archive option but as far as I can recall it has always been the case and is actually an external setting and not applEs doing (for once)

Go to the settings >mail> Choose your mail box > click on the account > advanced> Select " Move discarded messages into

i am using iOS 10 just got the iPhone 7. Below are the screen shots

Worked for me on my gmail on my iPhone 6s running iOS 10.

From what I can see you are still using an older IOS not IOS 10 because the IOS 10 is very different than the screen shots you provided hebronsimon. I too am having the same issue as lagr01.

I had the same issue where swiping to the right (->) no longer had "trash" as an option. I remembered my iPad had the functionality that I would swipe right and trash the email and swipe left to archive it. So, when I went to configure my new iPhone 7, my surprise when swiping either left or right did not have a "trash" option within settings for the mail swipe options. However, I managed to restore the expected actions by assigning the "archive" to the swipe right (->). This actually restored the exact gestures that I wanted (even though it shouldn't have). So, to be clear, my swipe options for my Google accounts are Swipe Right -> Archive, Swipe Left -> None. This allows me to swipe right in the Mail app to trash my emails and to swipe left to archive them. It's obviously broken, but hope that this is the result you were looking for.

evotuned wrote:

So, to be clear, my swipe options for my Google accounts are Swipe Right -> Archive, Swipe Left -> None. This allows me to swipe right in the Mail app to trash my emails and to swipe left to archive them. It's obviously broken, but hope that this is the result you were looking for.

Sounds like you may need to reset or restore your iPhone, or you're confusing the settings.

With Swipe Right --> Archive, swiping right should offer the Archive option (and that's what it does, regardless of your other Gmail setting for Archive vs. Trash).

With Swipe Left --> None, swiping left should offer either the Archive or Trash option, depending on how you've set the behavior under the Gmail account's advanced settings.

It's multiple devices running iOS 10.x+ that have that issue. So it's not

just a single device that is displaying the incorrect action for the

gesture.

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I set my device as you have indicated, and it is doing exactly as it should be:

Right = Archive

Left = Archive or Trash (depending on Gmail advanced account settings)

Yes, I am on iOS 10.1.1 on iPhone 7 Plus.

The gmail app on iOS also had the option to delete on swipe, instead of archive and I have been using that for a while. However after recently upgrading my iPhone 6 to iOS 10, the default action became archive instead of delete, inspite of not changing any settings.

To fix it, open the Gmail app, scroll to Settings in the left panel menu, select your account and in the option for "When removing messages, I prefer to ...", select "Move to bin" as the option. After that, swipe right moves the message to trash instead of archiving it.