You can use simple gestures to delete your spam email messages on your iPhone or iPad. you can easily delete one or multiple emails.
You can delete your emails as follows:
- by tapping the edit button in the upper right corner, select the emails you want to delete, or tap select all, and then tap trash or archive. this method allows you to delete multiple messages.
- Swipe left on a single email, then tap Trash or Archive. this way you can delete a single email.
When you want to delete, you may see the file instead of the trash. you may want the mail app to delete spam messages instead of archiving them. In this article, we explain how you can edit your mailbox settings to change this behavior so you can delete your messages.
Archive and Trash are different. Your message will disappear from your inbox folder whether you choose Archive or Trash. The difference is that the trashed mail will go into the trash folder. Depending on your email provider (Apple, Gmail, Yahoo Mail or AOL Mail, etc), your trashed messages will permanently be deleted from your account after a period of time (this is usually 30 days). After the end of this period, you cannot recover these messages. And when you archive an email, it stays in your Archive folder or a similar folder. For example, Gmail puts them in the All Mail area. These messages will never be deleted automatically. You can recover these if you want.
Please note that by default gmail is set to archive your emails. therefore, several users may think that deleting emails is not working. in fact, this is a feature. you can set the mail app to delete. in this way, your messages in the trash will be deleted periodically and will not take up storage space.
how to change your mailbox behavior setting to delete instead of archive on iphone or ipad
1. on your iphone or ipad, go to settings > mail > accounts.
2. select the email account you want to edit. In this article, we are going to use a google gmail account.
3. touch account and advanced.
4. look for the “move discarded messages to” section.
5. select “mailbox deleted”. now your discarded emails will go to this mailbox. then go back by tapping count and tap done.
how to delete emails if you are using archive settings
You can still delete your emails even if you set the mail app to archive. some users may prefer this method. because they may not like the idea of deleting emails. this is how you can delete a message instead of archiving it:
- swipe an email to the left. you won’t see the trash can option, because archive mode is enabled.
- you can touch move and select trash or junk.
- or alternatively, you can touch more and select junk message.
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- how to remove spam & junk (instead of archive) fast on ios (gmail)