How can I clean up a gmail inbox?

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How to delete ALL 5000 + inbox with ONE step on iphone 6 ?

Try this

• Go to your Inbox folder
• Tap on the "Edit"-Button on the top right
• Select the first email in your list
• Hold down the "Move" button
• While you are still holding the "Move"-Button, deselect the first E-Mail
• Put away all your fingers from the screen and wait a few seconds
• Now Mail asks you where to move ALL of your emails
• Select the Trash Folder as destination
• From inside the Trash Folder, you can delete all items at once

PS This does take some patience. I did this the other day for a friend with 4,000 + emails. It took two or three batches. It takes a while for the gmail server to synch.

Do it on a computer email client or by logging into her Gmail account via a web browser. Whatever you delete (or Archive) there will then sync to the iPhone.

AllanB1954 wrote:

I have just moved my wife's gmail account to my old iPhone 6 and found that she has over 6000 emails onthat account that have been moved to the new phone! Is there a way of deleting all of these old emails without doing it about 5 at a time?

Thanks

on the iPhone no, you or her can log onto her email account on a web browser and mass delete that way and it will reflect on the phone assuming it is set up as an IMAP account.