Go to Trash, or All Trash (if you want to be lethal with all accounts),
double tap edit, then you'll have the delete button which you need to
confirm.
This usually works fine for me, though there have been repeated messages
seen in GMAIL recently and I don't know the reason.
Carol P
On 21/10/2015 22:03, Alex Hall wrote:
In iOS9, there's now a "delete all" button, thankfully. I don't know
quite where it is because I haven't had to use it, but it's there.
On Oct 21, 2015, at 16:58, Walter Ramage <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi all. nearly a year ago I was given an iPhone 5c to use as part of
the work I was involved in with a national charity. I really didn't
use it very much, just played around with it and used my old nokia as
I normally would. When we got the phone up and running and I
launched my email app, 500,000 unread emails showed up, well, it was
nearly 500,000, something like 495,000. This was a nightmare to deal
with and I looked on line for a solution. What is below is what I
found. In truth if you have some usable sight this should work for
you but I don't and it was a bit more difficult but I did manage to
delete around 150 and even 200 emails at a time. In the end I went
to my ISP's web mail and deleted them from there. However the
procedure below might be of interest to you and I hope it will be of
help to some. Walter.
How to delete ALL mail messages from iPhone/iPad in one step
by Adrian Segar
Yes, there is a way to delete all your unwanted iPhone/iPad emails
from the Mail app in one operation! No more left-swipe:tap Trash for
every individual message. No more Edit: tap the single open circle
next to every individual message and finally tapping Trash. And you
don’t need to jail break your device.
If you leave your iDevice on for a few days and come back to find a
few hundred messages on it that you’ve already downloaded elsewhere
this trick will save you time and irritation. I didn’t discover the
method—it’s far from obvious—but found it on one of many Apple
discussion threads bemoaning this irritating hole in Mail functionality.
It works! I present to you this great tip from shashbasharat found on
MacRumors (slightly edited for clarity).
How to delete or move ALL emails at once in non-jail broken ipad or
iphone
It took me weeks of research to figure out finally how to decode this
yet another secretive secret of apple. There is a perfect way of
deleting ALL emails at once without jailbreaking your iphone or
ipad…and here it is:
Open Inbox Edit Mark All Mark As Read [Added May 21, 2014
by Adrian; this extra step makes the difference between success &
failure for some.]
Open Inbox Edit Check/select the top message; it will
highlight the move button.
Press and hold the move button and uncheck the message that you
had checked earlier.
Lift all your fingers off from the ipad screen and leave it alone.
Wait until all your messages pile up on the right hand portion of the
screen (in ipad); iphone will give you the actual number of emails it
has selected for the action. Now they are just waiting for your
command to be moved ALL at once.
Choose trash to delete all of them or any other folder where u
want to move them, like one piece. Remember this will replicate your
action on the server so you will ACTUALLY move them or delete them on
the server and not just the ipad.
Once you have moved all messages to the trash you can either leave
them there for the scheduled cleaning or empty it right away by doing
this: go to trash folder and touch Edit. The Delete All button shows
up at the bottom of the screen. Hit it! You’re done!
If you do not see the effects of your actions on the server make sure
you have enabled your email accounts for such actions.
Tips:
1. Please give enough time (could take up to several minutes
depending the number of emails to be moved) for the emails to be
selected for the move. Your screen will become unresponsive while all
emails are being packaged. Once emails are ready, in ipad, you will
see them zoomed out on the right hand side of the screen, and in
iphone you will see the message showing you the actual number of
messages that have been selected.
2. Avoid purging very large number of emails, the mail app might
freeze or crash. If your inbox has thousands of emails change your
sync settings in mail settings to fill lesser number of emails in
your inbox.
3. [Added Jul 20, 2014 by Adrian] Many people have reported needing
to repeat the above procedure several times before it succeeds. (I
too have found this to be necessary a few times on my iPhone but not
on my iPad—go figure.) So my final tip is to repeat the procedure 3-4
times if the mail doesn’t disappear the first time. In my experience,
if your messages disappear momentarily and then reappear, repeating
the procedure will eventually make them stay deleted for good.
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