How do I delete all emails in iOS 11 on Iphone at once?
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iPhone 7, iOS 11.0.1
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.
You are my hero. It’s ridiculous you can’t select all the emails at once and delete them in an intuitive way, but your method worked perfectly. Thanks!
Maybe I am missing something but this is not working for me. Thanks for your help.
Is there a way to delete them all at once without selecting each one individually?
That doesn’t work for me. I select edit and when I tap them the only buttons that are available are cancel move and archive. Very difficult
Thanks, Had already done that but no response.
This fix does work sometimes but is certainly a tedious one for 8,000+
emails
Cheers
Graeme
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How do I delete all emails in iOS 11 on Iphone at once?
This only works if you have an imap account. Try it using a pop account and you are stuck deleting each email one at a time or the neat bug identified by "myndlis".
Brilliant, works like a dream. I'm sure that is not a programmed intention by Apple.
Thank you very much for the solution you provided. It's very much appreciated! As you already know, I can confirm that it works (at least as of this post).
“Select every email?”
Seriously deleting 3000 emails will take me over an hour at least and I’ve done this every time I got a new iPhone.
Thankyou so much, just deleted hundreds of emails in one go!
This doesn’t work in the latest version (11.2.6).
It does in mine, keep trying. It didn’t work first time round so I kept at it.
I tested it again after upgrading to 11.2.6 and had no problem. Trash is also still an option
For some reason "Helpful" on your post isn't available for me to click/tap, so I wanted to post that it was helpful to get this confirmation. Thank you.
How to delete all emails on iPhone
