Hi Denise, The delete button for individual messages is located in a different place on the iPad from where you're used to finding it on the iPhone. If you can find the "move" button, you can just flick right from it to reach the "delete" button on the iPad. Alternatively, if you can find the "compose" button at the top right corner of your screen, you can flick left twice to reach the "delete" button. The four buttons for "move", "delete", "reply", and "compose" pertaining to individual mail messages, that you would find along the bottom of your iPhone screen, are located at the top right of your iPad screen, at the same vertical position as the "Inbox" and "Mailboxes" headings. You'll find the "compose" button if you touch the battery status icon at the top right corner of the active iPad region, and move your finger down slightly.
One way to reach the "delete" button on the iPad, regardless of whether you are using landscape or portrait mode, is to use the new "item chooser" gesture introduced under iOS 5. Do a three finger double tap to bring up item chooser menu. Although item chooser is designed to let you enter search strings by typing into a text field, you don't need to type anything. Instead, just flick right until you reach "Delete" and double tap. That will move your focus to "Delete" button for your currently viewed message. Since item chooser lists items in alphabetical order, you may have to flick right 5 or more times to get to the entry for "Delete" and double tap. And remember, using item chooser this way only moves your focus to the item you've selected; you still need to execute another double tap to activate the "Delete" button. The way I'm used to deleting individual messages on the iPad is by touching the "Compose" button in the top right corner (in either landscape or portrait orientation), and flicking left twice to the "Delete" button, then double tapping. You do need to learn the boundaries of the active iPad screen region, just as with the iPhone, and a case can help you learn these. If you're using the new smart covers, and your iPad is held in landscape mode, with the home button to the left, you can touch the left or right hinges of the cover at the top of your screen, and feel for the raised bar in the center of the metal hinge. If I move my finger vertically down from the left hinge, with an iPad in landscape mode, I'll first hear "AT&T network, status bar item, double tap to scroll to top", and then "Inbox <number of messages>, back button" in mail. Moving down vertically from the right hinge in landscape mode for mail, I'll first hear "80 per cent battery power, status bar item, double tap to scroll to top". Moving further down, I'll hear "Compose button". If you don't use a case or smart cover, you can mark the boundaries of the active screen region by using elastic bands around your iPad to mark the active boundaries at the top, bottom, and sides, while you learn their positions. If that's too awkward or sounds too dorky, you can use some of those not-too-sticky Post-It page markers, or low-stick brands of tape that are used to temporarily position items, and use them to mark off the corners of the active region. These won't damage the surface of the iPad, but will provide temporary tactile indicators of the edge of the active region. To delete multiple messages from a mailbox, start at the button in the top left corner of the screen. This is also the first element, so you can use a four finger tap in the top half of the screen to navigate there. In landscape mode, this will probably be read as "Inbox <number of messages>, back button" or "Mailboxes, back button". Flick right twice, to the heading and then to the "Edit" button and double tap. The "Edit" button will turn into a "Cancel" button. Now flick right to the individual messages and double tap to mark or unmark your selections. The "Delete" button for your selected messages is in the bottom left corner of the iPad. Here are two ways you can find it, if you're not used to the iPad active screen boundaries: 1) Do a four-finger tap on the bottom half of the screen to move to the last element, which will be the "Mark" button. Then flick left past the "Move" button to the "Delete" button; 2) If you're using a smart cover, touch the left metal hinge at the top, then move your finger vertically down the screen, through the list of messages, until you hear the "Delete" button. In landscape mode, about the left third of your screen will be a "container" that holds the mailbox and inbox selection information. The right two thirds of the screen holds the individual message. You can set the rotor to navigate by "Containers" to navigate through these elements. If I'm reading a thread, and start from the "Inbox <number of messages>, back button" in the top left corner, then setting the rotor to "Containers" and flicking down moves me to the first message in that thread that is currently loaded onto my device. A second flick down takes me to the "refresh" button at the bottom left corner of the screen. A third flick down takes me to the "move button" that is the first of the button controls for an individual message in the right two-thirds of the screen. A fourth flick down takes me to the "From:" that is the start of the message heading. A fifth flick down takes me to the beginning of the message body. At any point, you can flick right to reach the other buttons for the message or mailbox, or reach the other mail heading information, etc. Using the rotor to navigate is useful for the more complex organization supported by the iPad, but the easiest place to set the rotor to "containers" is when you're somewhere in the heading at the top of the screen or focused on one of the button controls there -- on the "Inbox" button at the top right, for example. Then there are only a few option to select. Deleting multiple messages in portrait mode works a little differently, since by default the entire message fills the screen, just as on the iPhone. You again need to first navigate to the first element in the screen (e.g., with a four-finger tap in the top half of the screen, or by touching the control in the top left corner), then double tap this mailbox or Inbox button. This action brings up a sidebar with the mailbox and message information that covers about the left forty per cent of the screen. You can explore the boundary by touch. If you run your finger vertically up or down the left side of the screen, about midway between the position of the home button in the center and the left edge of the iPad, you'll hear all the individual messages announced. But it you stop at a particular message, and start moving your finger horizontally to the right, a little before you reach the middle of the screen, you'll start to hear the message "Double tap to dismiss sidebar". Double tapping anywhere along the right side of the screen where you hear that message when you touch the screen will make the sidebar with the list of messages disappear, and give you access to the individual message. However, once the sidebar is displayed, you can navigate to select messages, and also move to the button controls to mark all messages (if you're viewing in a thread), or delete or move messages that you've selected. I'm not sure how to answer your question about leaving messages on the server. That happens for me by default when I selected my mail service and default account. I think that when you add a mail account, you can also specify whether this is set up as IMAP or POP. If you're using gmail, there may be some specific settings that someone else can help you with. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Mar 22, 2012, at 4:16 PM, denise avant wrote: > Hello all, > I have a few questions about the ipad that I hope can be answered. > 1. In mail, where can I find the delete button to delete a single message or > several selected messages. i have had some difficulty with this button. I am > able to find archive, move compose etc, but delete seems to be a problem. > 2. I want to have my messages left on the server so that if I want them to be > downloaded to my mac, they will when i check mail on that computer. I have > been trying to locate the feature to leave mail on server under settings, but > all i have found is the one under advanced for deleted messages. > > I do not have any issue with these features on my iphone, and so maybe i am > just having a little trouble with the ipad layout. thanks. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
