Wow- they don't make it easy!! Well done on finding that article Cearbhall
- really interesting!! Thanks for sending it on.
Noreen
On 25 Feb 2017 20:21, "Cearbhall O'Meadhra" <cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx>
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How to Delete Email Messages on Your iPhone or iPad
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If you use Mail on your iPhone or iPad, then you've probably noticed it's
considerably difficult to delete messages - by default, there's only an
Archive button. There is a way, however, to move messages to the trash. It
just isn't very intuitive.
Simply put, most of us don't want to archive every single email message. In
fact, a lot of email messages have no business in our inboxes. But if you
go
to your mail through "Mailboxes", Apple has hidden that Delete button away,
replacing it with a lonely Archive option:
As you can see, there's no option to delete the message from a mailbox. You
can mark, move, or archive it. Deleting a message is just not an option.
The key to deleting mail messages is to go in through the "Accounts"
section. From here you can delete messages, but only if you do so from the
"All Mail" folder.
Deleting mail must be performed from the Accounts view, and only within the
All Mail folder.
Again, you have to access this folder from the Accounts view. You cannot
delete messages from a single inbox or folder. It has to be done from All
Mail.
Note, now in the All Mail view, when you tap the "Edit" button and select
mail messages, the option to trash them will now be shown at the
bottom-right corner of the screen.
Unlike other folders, the All Mail folder will reveal the much-coveted
Trash
option when you tap the "Edit" button and select one or more messages.
You can also swipe messages left and quickly trash them that way. In any
other view or mailbox, if you try to do this, it will simply archive the
message.
If you tap the "Edit" button but don't select any messages, the option
shown
in the bottom-right corner will be to "Trash All". This is kind of like the
nuclear option and should be handled cautiously. After all, you may want to
delete some messages, but not necessarily all of them.
Deleting messages in Mail on your iPhone or iPad is as easy as that, but
Apple sure doesn't make it obvious. You can't even change the default
behavior from the settings.
Turning on Delete in the Settings
If you just want to enable delete and not jump through all the hoops, then
you change the default swipe behavior in the Mail settings. Normally, when
you swipe a message left, it will archive messages. By changing one small
setting, it will delete them instead.
First, tap open "Mail, Contacts, Calendars" in Settings and choose the
account(s) you want to affect.
In that account's settings, tap on "Account".
Below Outgoing Mail Server, you will see an "Advanced" option, tap on that.
Now, simply check "Deleted Mailbox" under the Move Discarded Message Into
heading.
Finally, make sure you go back to the account settings screen and tap
"Done"
in the upper-right corner so the new changes stick.
That's it, now the default swipe behavior will be to delete messages rather
than archive them.
We hope you now enjoy your newfound mail deleting powers. You can finally
start cleaning out those unwanted messages clogging up your inbox(es)
without fear of keeping them archived where you'll never look at or read
them again.
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