Delete All?

FrankShore wrote:
I don't get it. Here, Apple is supposed to be this very progressive company with all the bells and whistles as far as hardware goes, yet their software won't even offer a person the basic functionality offered by Windows (gasp!) or Android (gasp!)

Is this something that they've overlooked or decided that their users don't need?

First a "truth in lending" statement. I don't have a smartphone (or tablet) of any stripe. I much prefer my flip phone and its 40-day batter life, especially when we are traveling.

Are you wanting a "delete all" option in an IOS email program? (Oh, which client are you using?" And, do you know for a fact that such an option exist on an Android phone? And, if so, which client?

I ask the latter question because I have friends, who mistakenly think I know the answers to all of their technology questions, that want to know how to select all emails on their Jelly Bean Android devices. I looked on Android forums and have not yet found out how.

I also receive the same question form iPhone-using friends. Here is the instructions that seems to work for most* of them.

• Open Inbox -> Edit
  
• Check/select the top message - the Move button should highlight.
  
• Press and hold the Move button until the message you selected earlier is unchecked.
  
• Remove your fingers from the screen and wait. On an iPad, the messages should pile up on the right portion of the screen. The more messages you have, the longer this process will take - up to a several minutes if you have thousands of emails.
  
• Select Trash to move all of the messages to the trash folder.
  
• To remove immediately,
  
  • Go to the Trash folder
    
  • Touch Edit
    
  • Touch Delete All, which should show up on the bottom of the screen
    
  
  

For friends using IOS 8, I recommend that they change their settings to automatically delete messages that are older than 30 days.

• Settings
  
• Messages
  
• Keep Messages
  
• 30 days.
  

*I have one friend that says the procedure doesn't work for her. She says that if she marks them all as read first, the steps do work.

Tom