Learn How To Delete All Emails At Once On iPhone

Here’s how to delete all the emails on your iPhone – open the Mail app and select inbox. Tap Edit then tap the first email to mark it. Swipe down until all are selected. Once they’re all selected, tap Trash at the bottom right corner to delete them.

Have you ever wondered how to delete all emails at once on your iPhone? Unread emails can pile up in your inbox over the years. When you sync those emails on your iPhone using the Mail app, they can eat up quite a bit of space. 

Sometimes the best way to deal with all the unread emails is to delete them. Read on to learn how to delete unread emails quickly on your iPhone. 

2 Ways To Delete All Your Emails On Your iPhone

While communication has evolved for both work and play, emails are still a go-to for many people. Whether it’s to handle business, share personal files, or otherwise, emails will always have their place in our lives. 

While emails are great, many people relate to having clogged inboxes with hundreds or even thousands of unread emails. 

A lot of these emails stop being relevant quickly after being sent. Yet they sit in your inbox for years, so naturally, you’re going to want to delete them.

You can try deleting them one by one but that’ll be time-consuming. Luckily, you can easily delete all emails at once. 

Delete All Emails Via The Mail App

Smartphones and tablets such as iPhones or iPads often have native email apps. In addition to this, you can download other email apps from their respective app stores. 

The native email app for iOS devices is the Mail app. It allows for the integration of email accounts from various platforms such as Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, and more. This means you can log into your respective email account and those emails will show up in the Mail app.

If your inbox is full, syncing those emails can take up a lot of space on your iPhone or iPad. Deleting these emails can free up space and clear the anxiety that comes with having a full inbox. 

One way you can remove those emails from your iPhone is by removing the email account associated with them. If you want to delete all emails and keep the account, then you’re in luck.

Here’s how to delete all emails at once on iPhone or iPad:

1. Open the Mail app on your iPhone and view your inbox folder. There tap the filter icon at the bottom left of the screen to filter the unread emails. Then tap Edit in the top right-hand corner to enter edit mode.

2. Next, swipe down from the empty circle at the left of the first email at the top to the bottom. Hold it there until all of your emails are selected.

3. All of the circles will be highlighted in blue and the number of the emails you’ve selected will appear at the top of the page. Afterward, tap Trash at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. 

4.  Now you’ve successfully deleted all emails using the Mail App.

Delete All Emails Via Gmail App

Gmail is the world’s most popular email platform with over 1.8 billion users worldwide. While it may be the default app for Android devices, it isn’t for iOS. 

However, that doesn’t stop many iPhone users from using Gmail on their phones. They either use the app or integrate their Gmail account into the iOS Mail App. In the previous section, I showed you how to delete all emails en masse via the iPhone Mail App.

For this section, I’ll show you how to delete multiple emails at once and move them to the trash folder using the Gmail website on your phone. For this method, you need to be able to access the desktop version of the website. 

So before I show you how to delete all emails, I’m going to show you how to access the desktop version of the website on your iPhone. 

Here’s how to do it: 

1. Open the Settings app then scroll down and tap Safari in the settings menu. 

2. Next, scroll down and tap Request Desktop Website under Settings for Websites.

3. You’ll see that it is toggled off, toggle it on to be able to view the desktop version of a website in Safari.

4. Now that you’ve done this, open the browser, go to the Gmail website and log into the email account you want to use. 

5. Once you’ve logged into your email account, tap the double A icon in the search bar at the bottom. 

6. In the popup menu that appears, tap Request Desktop Website to change the view from the mobile website to the desktop version. 

7. Now that the website format has changed, you’ll see that you have all the tools from the desktop website available on your phone. To delete the emails in your inbox, you first need to select them. 

Instead of selecting each individually, simply tap the checkmark box at the top of the page. It’ll mark all the visible emails at once. 

8. Once all the emails are selected, tap trash button to delete all of them at once. 

9. There you have it, you’ve successfully deleted emails on the page. Deleting them immediately sends them to the trash folder, so you can check there in case there’s anything you want to restore. 

Video Instructions

Watch our video to see the steps from above in action:

FAQs

Clear Your Email Inbox On iPhone – Wrapping Up

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I know that emails are an important form of communication and a great way to track said communication, but not all emails need to be kept and you may wish to trash selected messages.  

Many of us have inboxes filled with hundreds and thousands of emails, which are really just social media notifications, promotions, and more. That’s why knowing how to mass delete your emails is important.

Using the Mail app makes it easy to mass delete emails. What’s even better is that it works with any email platform that you integrate into the app. 

If you’ve got Gmail, it’s still possible to delete all the emails at once on your iPhone or iPad. However, you’ve just gotta take a few extra steps.

Speaking of Gmail, if you’ve got an iCloud email address but want to make the switch to Gmail, did you know you can forward your iCloud emails to your new Gmail address? Read my guide to learn how to forward iCloud email to Gmail and make the switch.

If you’re content with your iCloud email address, then I suggest learning how to send more than five attachments from your iOS device. It’ll make it even better. 
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