Delete All?

[FrankShore]

Using a iPad w/ IOS 8.1.1 (latest)

Is there any way or tricks to mass delete mail from my inbox?

[Quick_trip]

On my Ipad I send mail to the "trash" then later I will recheck to see if I need to keep any.
If I don't want to keep, upper right corner it says "edit" click and it shows all mail in trash, then at the bottom I push "delete all" and click all gone!

[1492]

Just check-mark those emails those emails you want to delete. Then select Move, and click Trash.

[SCVJeff]

I'm not going to try it with mine, but try this:
EDIT
MARK ALL
MOVE > TRASH
GO TO TRASH
EDIT
DELETE ALL

I have 8 addresses pointed to AOL, Yahoo, and Roadrunner, and they all seem to operate this way, but I don't want to blow out any of the accounts to test what I see.

[mich800]

What are you using for your email client and how is it set up on your ipad? (imap or pop)

[pulsar]

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

[FrankShore]

1492 wrote:
You don't see a "Trash" option?

No, there is no trash option!

[Fizz]

FrankShore wrote:

1492 wrote:
I only have access to an iPad at work. But you can do so in the iPhone. If you open the Inbox, there is an Edit link which when clicked, allows you to check-mark all emails that you want to do a bulk function, such as delete. You may want check if there is something similar in the iPad?

You can "bulk check" all emails, but then it only gives me the option to "mark as read"

You can't bulk select and delete.
You have to tick off each individual email then click delete.

[1492]

You don't see a "Trash" option?

[FrankShore]

1492 wrote:
I only have access to an iPad at work. But you can do so in the iPhone. If you open the Inbox, there is an Edit link which when clicked, allows you to check-mark all emails that you want to do a bulk function, such as delete. You may want check if there is something similar in the iPad?

You can "bulk check" all emails, but then it only gives me the option to "mark as read"

[bamcote]

1492 wrote:
I only have access to an iPad at work. But you can do so in the iPhone. If you open the Inbox, there is an Edit link which when clicked, allows you to check-mark all emails that you want to do a bulk function, such as delete. You may want check if there is something similar in the iPad?

You can do this on the iPad as well.

[1492]

wildtoad wrote:


You can fairly quickly delete mails albeit one at a time by simply swiping the index entry from right to left.

This is actually one of my favorite iPhone functions. I wish Android had something similar? But, then again, there are a few convenient functions missing that my Samsung Galaxy does automatically. Such as popup available devices automatically when activating Bluetooth from the home screen. Or a simple enable/disable mobile data toggle accessible anywhere. Both of which I've been told Apple is supposedly working on incorporating in future releases of iOS.

[1492]

I only have access to an iPad at work. But you can do so in the iPhone. If you open the Inbox, there is an Edit link which when clicked, allows you to check-mark all emails that you want to do a bulk function, such as delete. You may want check if there is something similar in the iPad?

[wildtoad]

I suspect IPad assumes that bulk deletes will be handled by the mail system that you are linked to such as gMail, AOL mail, Yahoo Mail. I have Gmail, Road Runner Mail, both of which auto forward my mail to my ICloud account. The latter is what I have connected to both my IPhone and IPad. If I need to bulk delete email (I don't get that much mail) I go to my PC and sign-in to my icloud account and do the deletes from there.

You can fairly quickly delete mails albeit one at a time by simply swiping the index entry from right to left.

It would be nice for the IPad app to allow bulk deletes but have yet to find a way.

I found this...

[FrankShore]

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?