iPhone: How to Delete Email

Contributed by iphone_dude

June 24, 2007

Tagged: Apple iPhone

With all the spam in this world, deleting email is a common part of life. Here I will describe the two different ways of deleting email from your iPhone.

iPhone supports gmail, yahoo mail, .mac, and POP mail systems without any problems. Deleting email from an account can be done as follows:

1. Go into your email on your iPhone

2. Press the Edit icon in the upper right hand corner

3. Press the Red minus key beside the email you wish to delete.

4. Confirm your deletion by pressing the red delete key that appears to the right of the email message.

5. Press the Done icon in the upper right hand corner when finished.

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DJones

Is there a way to delete message from the phone but retain them on my computer?

Janet Miller

did you ever get a response to this question?

Janet Miller

Did you ever get a response to deleting messages on your iphone but retaining them on the computer?

Erick

did you ever get an answer???

sherry kelley

my email on the Iphone 3G with AOL--I cn no longer send read emails to the trast or delete--I clled Iphone and they told me it was an AOL problem I had to contact AOL--my AOL is filling up with unwanted emails

Jon Warner

Aol stinks, I'm changing to gmail

Charlie

Mine too... every since the 2.02 upgrade came out. Did you find a solution???

Jon Warner

Have message:
iPhone cannot delete mail.
Unable to move message the message could not be moved to the mailbox trash.
Please email me the solution
jon@cannonsports.com

Lisa Cassel

When I try to delete mail out of aol acct I get message that it cannot be moved to mailbox trash Help

Linda Beeler

To Lisa,
Have you figured out a solution about delting your mail. I have the same problem. I get a messageunable to move message.
Linda

Mike

Hi. My iPhone isn't allowing me to delete my inbox. A window is popping up saying that the message cannot go in the trash. Can you please help me? Send me the solution please. Thank you.

Mjazz

I've been having this same problem for over about a week. I have been able to delete from my MobileMe roadrunner and gmail accounts. Looks like we'll just have to wait till aol fixes problem or do the inconvenient thing and delete our emails from an actual computer.

Tommie

How can you Sync email with your computer to delete all (91) without doing each separately?

Linda Beeler

I have the I PHone. I try to delete my messages. It repeatedly says "unable to move message to trash bin. How do I correct this. It had been working fine. Please respond to my e-mail address. Thanks.
Linda

Steve

did you ever get an answer?

Nozz

Linda,
I have the same problem. I on AOL & have not been able to use the trash bin facility since downloading the new 2.02 upgrade. Please let me know if you are successful in solving the problem.Thanks

donna

i am having the same issue. it is so infuriating I can't get this to work at all did anyone respond to you>

John Lefebvre

Here is the msg. I receive when I try to delete e-mail.

Unable to move Mesaages
The messages could not be moved to the mailbox trash.

Please help me.

dellis

Is there a way to do a mass delete? A la Blackberry, "delete all?"

John

tried this - worked on one email adress but not another. when this was tried a message was recieved saying " Unable to Move Message: Message could not be moved to mailbox trash". What should I do next?

davak

For those having problems, are you using POP or IMAP?

ty

put your iphone in airplane mode then delete msgs

Diana

Thank you!!! this worked for me. I couldn't delet my email forever, now It's gone.

JÕÊŁ Latino

Put ur iPhone in airplane then delete the mail you don't want and delete them from trash that's it u got it

ums

I had the same problem with a POP account. I went into the advanced settings for the account (on the iPhone) and re-set the destination for where the deleted items should go on the server.

Arline nechtow

Major problems deleting e-mails while on vacation. Major inconvenience getting to a desk top . Please contact me for discount on bill. Tenan@aol.com

Ac

I put my phone on airplane mode then proceeded with deleting my emails on aol.

frances

when you delete e-mail off the computer (yahoo account) does it delete the message on your iphone as well or does it show on your phone still?

Carol

Worked for me - thanks!!!

Gary Moore

Worked for me too On AOL just go to mail top setting and turn on AIRPLANE mode and emails can then be deleted either of two ways...

anonymous

If you are getting an error message when trying to delete AOL emails from your iPhone after the 2.2 software update, do this: tap Settings > Mail,Contacts,Calenders > (aol account) > Advanced > Deleted Messages. Select "Spam" from the list. Press Home button. Repeat the previous procedure except this time re-select "Trash" from the list. Tap the Home button. You will now be able to delete your AOL emails from the iPhone again.

Ben

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dude

Holy Crap!!!!!! Thank You SOOOOOOO much!!!!!!

Mindy

You're awesome.thanks!!!!!

Rick Heard

This Totally Works! Thanks, it's been driving me crazy ever since the upgrade.

Carol

Still cannot delete emails - tried everything?

Iphone Noob

Here is what worked for me.... 1. Open SETTINGS....2. Open MAIL, CONTACTS, CALENDARS.....3. Open you Email Acct......4. Scroll down to ADVANCED and open....5. Open DELETED MAILBOX....(There should be a check mark next to TRASH) 6. Tap on something to uncheck TRASH (like SAVED or SENT ITEMS....I don't think it matters) Then Tap TRASH so the check mark is next to it again. 7. Press your HOME button to take you back to the Springboard....Now you can open your email and it should delete.
It worked for me......GOOD LUCK

cliff

Thank you, it worked fine.

Sal

That did it!!
Thanks a bunch.

Aneil Mishra

This worked perfectly -- thanks so much!

john

7. Pete Says:

November 23rd, 2008 at 9:35 am
I just called Apple support and the following seems to have fixed the problem: Go to settings > mail > click on the email account > advanced > deleted mailbox > then touch the “Trash” box. Nothing appears to happen — though it turns blue momentarily. The check remains. But when I went back into my email account (AOL), this had corrected the problem. I had previously tried to reset the iPhone and that failed to correct the problem

GlenW

What if you have no advanced ... Do you have to enable the advanced option ? I am getting the same problem connecting to an Exchange Server ... so it may be Exchange connector does not have an Advanced option ... was everyone here struggling with only AOL emails.

Karen

When I attempt to delete a message I get an error message that says "Unable to Move Message; The message could not be moved to the mailbox trash" . I do not even have a mailbox called trash.

bryan

yes but how do you delete 99 emails without having to touch each one of them,,,, that is my frustration

David

How do you delete email names?

Sal

Tried the above solution but the message " unable to move message to mailbox trash" comes up.
Please help.
Thanks

Steve

still can not delet the email...

John

This method of delelting isn't very efficient when it comes to over 400 emails.
Is there a way to delete a bunch of them without having to tick one by one?
It takes like 1 second to tick 2 but then you have to check the content to see whether you want to keep or not, im not gonna spend 20 minutes checking and deleting 400 emails. There must be a more efficient way of doing it.

Steffens Thomas G.

WHat about mass deletions. I had to restore my iPhone and somehow got 600 old Emails on. I can't delete them one by one1!!!

blulizzy

if when trying to delete email you get the "cant place message in trash" messages
put your iphone in airplane mode then delete msgs

siba

Hi,
thank you for the advice.
would you know if there is any way to delete ALL messeges instantly and in one go?
thank you
Siba@compuserve.com

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