In iOS9, there's now a "delete all" button, thankfully. I don't know quite where it is because I haven't had to use it, but it's there. > On Oct 21, 2015, at 16:58, Walter Ramage <w...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > > Hi all. nearly a year ago I was given an iPhone 5c to use as part of the > work I was involved in with a national charity. I really didn't use it very > much, just played around with it and used my old nokia as I normally would. > When we got the phone up and running and I launched my email app, 500,000 > unread emails showed up, well, it was nearly 500,000, something like 495,000. > This was a nightmare to deal with and I looked on line for a solution. What > is below is what I found. In truth if you have some usable sight this should > work for you but I don't and it was a bit more difficult but I did manage to > delete around 150 and even 200 emails at a time. In the end I went to my > ISP's web mail and deleted them from there. However the procedure below > might be of interest to you and I hope it will be of help to some. Walter. > > > > How to delete ALL mail messages from iPhone/iPad in one step > by Adrian Segar > > > Yes, there is a way to delete all your unwanted iPhone/iPad emails from the > Mail app in one operation! No more left-swipe:tap Trash for every individual > message. No more Edit: tap the single open circle next to every individual > message and finally tapping Trash. And you don’t need to jail break your > device. > If you leave your iDevice on for a few days and come back to find a few > hundred messages on it that you’ve already downloaded elsewhere this trick > will save you time and irritation. I didn’t discover the method—it’s far from > obvious—but found it on one of many Apple discussion threads bemoaning this > irritating hole in Mail functionality. > > It works! I present to you this great tip from shashbasharat found on > MacRumors (slightly edited for clarity). > > How to delete or move ALL emails at once in non-jail broken ipad or iphone > > It took me weeks of research to figure out finally how to decode this yet > another secretive secret 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 Mark All Mark As Read [Added May 21, 2014 by > Adrian; this extra step makes the difference between success & failure for > some.] > > 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 you will ACTUALLY move them or delete them on the server and not > just the ipad. > > Once you have moved all messages to the trash you can either leave them there > for the scheduled cleaning or empty it right away by doing this: go to trash > folder and touch Edit. The Delete All button shows up at the bottom of the > screen. Hit it! You’re done! > > If you do not see the 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 up to 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 your inbox. > > 3. [Added Jul 20, 2014 by Adrian] Many people have reported needing to repeat > the above procedure several times before it succeeds. (I too have found this > to be necessary a few times on my iPhone but not on my iPad—go figure.) So my > final tip is to repeat the procedure 3-4 times if the mail doesn’t disappear > the first time. In my experience, if your messages disappear momentarily and > then reappear, repeating the procedure will eventually make them stay deleted > for good. > > > > > > <http://www.avast.com/> > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > www.avast.com <http://www.avast.com/> > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your VIPhone list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com <mailto:caraqu...@caraquinn.com> > > The archives for this list can be searched at > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > <http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/>. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com > <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone > <http://groups.google.com/group/viphone>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>.
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