How to bulk delete emails on iOS?

dear marty what account was it that you set up on your iPod touch? and what ipod touch is it and what ios version are you running?
thanks
tali

Hi Marty.
There's an edit button and then once you're in that mode, there's a move button. Double tap that and move them all to the trash. Then go to your trash, tap edit & then go to the bottom left of the screen. There's a delete all button which you can double tap, then when the alert comes up, just tap it again. If it's in your junk mail, just tap the edit button, & tap the delete all button & then tap it again, just like you'd do with the trash. Hope this helps.

You'll need to select all the messages you want gone and then hit the delete button on the bottom right corner of the screen. It might say trash.

In the mail app tap the edit button and tap on the trash all button.Go back to the trash mailbox and tap the edit button,
Then, tap delete all button.
Let me know if you need any further assistance.

Deleting bulk email, sadly, will always be a fantacy and a dream, until Apple decides to add that trash all button back, unfortunately. That has been a dream/wish of many, sighted alike, for years. On some IOS 9 devices, including my iPod Touch 5th generation, the trash all button exists. However, according to someone on the Apple support forums who talked to Apple, adding that was accidental, so it was removed after IOS 9.

Hi, there is a sort of way to do this. I'll try and explain it below.

first off make sure you are certain that you want to delete all emails. Maybe move important ones you want to keep somewhere else. Better safe than sorry.

1.. tap edit in your inbox or where ever you have your mail stored.
2. Once in edit mode, double tap a message to select it.
3. here is where it gets slightly complicated.
You have to now turn off voiceover, find the selected message, hold on it with one finger and while doing so tap on the move button at the bottom of the screen. Finally, release both fingers together at the same time and not separately.
4. Now turn voiceover on again and hopefully, you should here do you want to move X amount of messages to the trash.

I can ashore you that this does work because I searched high and low for such a feature myself. I finally found it on a Mac rumors forum post a while back.

Just google "how to delete all emails in iOS mail." and you should find an article on the web outlining this method. Do note though, that they won't be telling you how to do it with Voiceover.

I have recently been clearing up multiple emails from the Viphone and Mac Visionaries lists through this method and while it doesn't get rid of them all, it clears about roughly 50 to 250 messages at a time which is certainly better than one by one.

I too wish Apple would really bring this clearly needed feature back for IOS.

If you find it hard to grasp this concept, at first (don't worry I certainly did.) Then post back here and I'll try and do my best to explain further. Basically though, what you want to do can be done once you understand the gesture after having turned voiceover off. .

Good luck and let us all know how it goes.

Thanks

Daniel

Please note that before you do this, you will have to be certain that there is nothing you wish to keep. Now, just delete the mail app from your iPhone and reinstall it from the App Store. There, you're done. I guess even re-installing an app is better than deleting thousands of mail one by one.

As I said above, when the mail app is opened, go into "all mailboxes", then tap "edit." You'll then have to select each message by swiping to it and double tapping. Once all the messages you want to move to the trash are selected, just double tap the trash button at the bottom right of your screen. Remember, you can also go into settings and set how long you want messages in the trash kept for. After that, they're gone. POOF!!! Forget the move button. It's not necessary unless you are moving them to another mailbox.

Another option is in mail settings I think you can tell it to delete messages from server after you delete them from your phone. I can't remember the exact wording right now, but that might be something for you to look at. I'm at work so can't check it out.

Quoted from the source: It's a glitch and it works!
Open the mailbox you decided to delete, press Edit at the top right corner, select one random email, then press and hold "Move" and while you hold it, unselect the email previously selected. When you release the "Move" button, then you can choose to move all mail to trash or another folder. Voilá!
Regards.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8088614

Here is how I apply his method. First I open my mailbox and go to inbox. Next I double tap on edit. Now I swipe to the first message and select it by double tapping. Next I feel around for the move button. Once I have found it and are sure where it is, I turn off voice-over. Next I place and hold my finger where the move button is suppose to be. While I'm holding my finger there, I make a single tap on any of the other messages. Finally, I let go of everything and turn voice-over back on. It will now say something like move these messages to another mailbox. Just move them to trash and it should be easier from there on out.

All of these suggestions involve turning Voice-Over off. Is there a way to do this actually using the Voice-Over we need in order to see exactly what we're doing with no error potential?

From what I have read according to the link that Daniel posted, this is a glitch and is not even suppose to be available for the sighted. Obviously, someone have been trying weird stuff without voice-over.