How to delete all emails on iPhone

“If you go to your email, in the top right corner there is an edit button. once you hit that, you can select every piece of email you have and one of the options is to delete.“

Apple- please tell me you realize how utterly ridiculous that is. New iPhone user...and just had to delete several hundred old emails by selecting each individually. Is it really that difficult to add a ‘select all’ button? What’s the rational for taking it away if it was already there?

Well Daytona, you most definitely didn't hurt my feelings. When you buy Apple or become head of engineering, you can make the products do whatever you want. Until then, arguing about a feature that doesn't exist here is a waste of time. Apple doesn't read these posts. Provide your feedback to them directly: Feedback - iPhone - Apple

PS: Iphone X doesn't have this as none of the iPhones do. And yes, I own iPhone X.

If you have 6000 email . How to delete all email at once ? So,

First, u see right corner say put edit .

Second, put left box email .

Then, scroll down click say “move” hold on and go up back to box remove then show up see click “Trash”. All email are gone!!!

Again, this existed at one time. Having been around here for years now, you don't can't imagine how many people "accidentally" deleted their entire mailbox and were desperate to get their mail back. Is that why Apple took it away? I don't know, but it certainly has eliminated the moans and cries from people who did this regularly.

Why anyone let's messages pile up to the tune of thousands is a mystery to me personally. I clean out my mailbox daily. But that's me, clearly not others. If you think this is something you want, you can provide feedback to Apple (this is a user to user only forum and Apple isn't here) directly via this link: Feedback - iPhone - Apple

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))

Yes, you are right, there was a delete all function in the past. I can see what you are saying as regards people accidentally deleting all their messages. I use both MacBook Pro and iPhone for mail but primarily the MacBook, so they build up on the phone app. I for one would appreciate the delete all function but given that's not available now the glitch by myndis above works great.

Very true, BUT thats is why we have the BIN. Put old stuff in bin, when its x month old - just empty it. I mean - if u need to save a speciffic email, print it or screengrab it!

It common knowledge that everything is gone, when deleted! World wont stop spinning 🙂

Best regards

If you have multiple mailboxes, you must do this trick to each one separately. Does not work with All Inboxes. Very handy. Wish it wasn't so secretive. Using Edit/Mark All and allowing Trash as one of the destinations would be more direct.

When I try these steps ... after releasing the Move buttom, I am only give the Inbox folder as an option. Any idea what I might have set wrong?

BTW, I am using iOS 11.1.1 did they made a change that keep your method from working?

Thanks,

im

I got it to work .... I went into the inbox and manually deleted several emails. Then I tried your method again and this time the Trash folder did show up. Thanks so much for sharing this tip with everyone!!

Take care,