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how to delete all emails in inbox on ipad

How do I delete all emails at once in the ipad inbox

You can't. There is no way to select all of the emails at once in order to delete them. You have to delete them one at a time.

You actually can:

it took me weeks of research to figure out finally how to decode this yet another secretive secrets 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 >> 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 u will ACTUALLY move them or delete them on the server and not just the ipad.

once you have moved all messages to trash you can either leave them there for the scheduled cleaning or empty it right away by doing this: go to trash folder and click edit. the delete all button shows up at the bottom of the screen. hit it! you r done!

if you do not see 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 upto 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 you inbox

This is something that I doubt many users know about. I obviously have never seen this before. The only thing is when I try it on my iPad, I can only move the 25 most recent emails to the screen on the right. That is still a great time saver, however.

Nice trick!

Brilliant ! This worked for me . Thanks for all your hard work .

I do not understand how/why - but our new i Pad reports 5 thousand unread emails. I assume we can just ignore them?

Did you read my response to your original question?

https://discussions.apple.com/message/22593531

I tried this but it did not work. I have an iPad mini, is the os different to iPad?

No. The OS is the same. This trick takes a little work to get used to and like I said, I could only get it to go back 25 emails, but I did get it to work.

I am fanatical about keeping up with my emails - reading, deleting, saving if needed. So mass deletion is never a concern for me.

Brilliant! Works perfectly. Now, why has apple implemented such a cackhanded way of doing it?

Hi, tried this on my 4s with latest OS.

Did not work.

Email seem to fly down to Trash but they are never received there.

So I am still stuck with all the emails.

Can I do something wrong or do I have wrong settings?

Peter

For me it worked only when all my messages were UNFLAGGED and MARKED AS UNREAD.:)

Did not work for me.

Wow. thank you! This worked within 60 seconds to delete 6371 emails!

I followed your instructions to a T but I was using my iphone5 and not an ipad. 

The emails popped up on the upper Left and I waited 20 seconds before hitting Trash becasue I couldn't believe the system had collected them so quickly. After I hit Trash,  it took about 10 more seconds and whoosh they were gone. They are now in my trash and will be deleted in 7 days.  Very happy! Thanks!

Is Apple losing its mojo? I just want to delete the emails on the ipad/iphone, not necessarily at Gmail. None of these methods work, and Apple better get back to its roots. The previous versions of ios was very manageable regarding emails. Now this disaster, that precludes me putting in more music or whatever into the device.

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