How to delete all emails on iPhone

colefromfergus wrote:

Seriously deleting 3000 emails will take me over an hour at least and I’ve done this every time I got a new iPhone.

If you follow the instructions that myndlis gives (see Oct 3, 2017 3:07 PM), you'll only need to select one random email to delete ALL of your emails.

To be specific, myndlis posted the following:

"It's a glitch and it works!
Open the mailbox you decided to delete, press Edit at the top right corner, select one random email, then press and hold "Move" and while you hold it, unselect the email previously selected. When you release the "Move" button, then you can choose to move all mail to trash or another folder. Voilá!

Regards."

I followed the instructions, and it worked just as it has for other people as well.

The thing is, you might not think that all of your emails have been selected when you start with just one random email. But, if you literally follow each step of the instructions, then ALL of your emails will be deleted at the same time.

Gandalf47 wrote:

When you have 1007 emails due to an illness and an inability to delete in real time, a less snarky answer would be preferred, at least by me. Like the one below, which actually works. While your answer is technically correct, if you are not open to anything but the commonly-known solutions, you'll stay one step behind. Glitch or not, the one below works in one second.

If you did not mean it in a snarky way, I am sorry i took it that way, but the question implied that they wanted to delete all there mails at once. Why else would we end up here?

I don't think that welafever's answer posted 6 months ago was snarky, and I don't think it was intended to be. The original question did not say how many emails needed to be deleted. If it was 10, or even 100, that would be an effective way and would have given the user a chance to review what they were deleting. If you read more of the 7 page thread you will find suggestions for dealing with larger numbers of emails that need mass deletion. By far the easiest way is to log in to the email provider's webmail portal, or use the mail client on a computer. Either will have a "select all" option along with a Delete All. There's also a method that takes advantage of a "quirk" in the iOS mail program to move all mail to the Trash, which is essentially the same as deleting it. This last is described in the 3rd "Helpful" post at the top of page 1.

Yet another option is to get a mail client from the App Store that has more features than the built-in mail app. Most of Apple's built in apps are rather basic; intentionally, I think, so as not to compete with 3rd party developers. I don't use most of the built-ins; I have App Store sourced calculators, calendar app (the built-in is really awful), clock app, mail apps, weather app, stocks app, Notes app, currency conversion app, voice recorder, browsers, and many more (260 3rd party apps total).

Hi

This is a great trick and it works.

Go to your e mails

Select Edit

Select/highlight one email

press move and while KEEPING your finger on 'move' un highlight the selected e mail

Select the trash button and BOOM they are gone!

Good luck

1. Go to your email providers webmail, select all, select DELETE
2. Open the account in the mail app on your computer, right click on any entry in the list and choose Select All, and hit the Delete key

It seems that your email is still on your email client's server, which is likely why they're reappearing on your iPhone.

As such, and I'm quoting, "Login to your email provider's website and delete the email messages you want to delete. Make sure they are removed from the trash/delete mail folders as well. The results should sync to your iPhone."

Source: https://forums.imore.com/iphone-5/322387-why-do-my-deleted-emails-keep-coming-ba ck.html

If you read some of the thread there are posted workarounds for Delete All.

If you are using the Outlook app and not Apple's email app you should have a delete all option in the app. If not, you need to take that up with Microsoft, who wrote the app.

Another option is to use your email provider's webmail interface and delete them there.

As it's been answered before with this same question, but for a quick reference here, in your case you'll need to delete your email on your email server before deleting it on your iPhone or iPod. Otherwise, as you already know, your emails will return as soon as you sync with your email server.

To avoid this extra step for anybody who has the same problem, regularly cleaning out the inbox on your email server should do the trick. If you don't want to delete those emails, just archive them in a folder of your choice.

My iPhone has an Edit button in the message list screen. Just where it's always been in the upper right corner of the list screen.

I tested this trick again, but this time with the updated iOS 11.2.6 software, and it worked for me just fine for two different email accounts. But since in your case "Trash" isn't showing, I wonder if it would show again if you delete just one of your emails to restore it, and then try this trick again.

I'd like to know there's a way to restore "Trash" just in case this happens to me, so if you try this, please let us know if that worked. Thanks.

Indeed, when I deleted one message on one account, the Trash folder became available. On some other accounts, it took a while before the Trash folder showed up, but eventually it did show up. So the trick still works. However, I do wish we didn't have to do this to delete many messages at once.

Sorry to contradict but I deleted all mine from

one of my devices ( iPad) first then emptied the trash. I then checked my iPhone, also deleted and finally my mail server ( I was actually looking for an unsaved email) all gone from there too and none have returned 😊

Exactly. That's not a contradiction at all. Thank you for the confirmation.

So ... for anyone whose emails keep coming back after they've been deleted from an Apple device, the thing to do is to make sure you keep the inbox of your email server clean.

Works like a charm! Thanks for sharing the glitch. I have the iPhone 7 Plus and the iPad Pro running iOS 11.2.6.

Once my nearly 9,000 emails went to the trash, I then went to the trash for each account and the delete all option was available once I selected edit at the top right corner of the screen. Yippee!

you can delete an specific tread by searching for it, once you get them all click on the top one that will open that email(keyboard will disappears) touch all or the mailbox you are in (top left corner) that will bring you to the emails matching your search after that touch edit the will show the circles on the left side of all the messages select the top one ( circle) now you have at the bottom -----mark (1) move (1) trash(1) cancel ----- touch and HOLD move while pressing move deselect the message previously selected ( a move patch will show in the middle of the screen and the number from 1 to no number) let go of move and that will bring you to a multiple choice page where you can select all those messages to go ( just note the number of messages under the title, that is how many you are moving to trash, junk or whatever you select))

It's a glitch and it works!
Open the mailbox you decided to delete, press Edit at the top right corner, select one random email, then press and hold "Move" and while you hold it, unselect the email previously selected. When you release the "Move" button, then you can choose to move all mail to trash or another folder. Voilá!

Regards.