How to Delete Multiple eMails in iOS
Feb 29, 2012 - 7 Comments
Deleting a group of emails in iOS is fairly straight forward, this will be the same on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch:
- Open Mail app to the inbox in question and tap on “Edit” in the upper right corner
- Select Mail messages you want to delete so that a red checkbox appears next to them
- Now tap the “Move” button (the number of messages selected will appear alongside it)
- At the “Mailboxes” screen, tap on “Trash” to move all the selected emails to Trash and delete them
As you might have guessed, you can use this same technique to move mail messages from one mail folder to another.
Reasonably intuitive and a bit similar to marking multiple emails as “Read” in iOS, though there is some room for improvement in future versions of Mail app, hopefully adding a Mark All and Delete All option.
Easier way:
Tap “Mailboxes”
Tap “All Mail”
Tap “Edit”
Tap to mark emails
Tap “Delete”
Easier way:
Tap “Mailboxes”
Tap “All Mail”
Tap “Edit”
Tap to mark emails
Tap “Delete”
What is really annoying is there’s no way to select all of the mail at once. That’d be nice. Clicking on hundreds of emails to select them is a PITA
Annoying is an understatement.
Yeah right tapping 200 mails manually. Thinking of a select button apparently is too much effort for user friendly Apple. Absurd and annoying.
This works on iPad 3 iOS 5
Go to mail box
Tap edit
Pick one message to delete, red thing appears
NOW
Hold move and select that same mail message
Release the screen button and wait a few seconds, when the screen changes tap the trash to move 50 messages I one hit…
Cool or what, select all would have been a better way mr apple
This is the dumbest mail erasure method.