Is there a way to delete multiple or all messages at a time?
Unfortunately, at this point, there isn't.
For the time being, you're left with one of two options, each which delete only one message at a time:
1) tap the EDIT button then use the minus+confirm DELETE
2) swipe your finger across the subject/teaser of the message you want to erase and confirm DELETE
Hopefully a multiple delete or delete all feature is coming in a firmware update to the iPhone.
UPDATE: Mail and Messages now both have a multiple delete feature (firmware 3.0 and later). While looking at your Mail inbox or SMS messages from a contact, you'll notice an "Edit" button in the upper right hand corner of the screen. To select multiple messages touch Edit then choose the messages using the circle toggles on the left side of the screen.
At the bottom of the screen, in Messages you can choose "Delete" or "Forward" while in Mail you have the choice to "Delete" or "Move" the selected messages.
You can if you configure your account as an IMAP account then on your PC mark all messages as read or delete them all. I wrote an article on how to do this. This work for all Gmail Accounts, Google Apps for your domain, etc..
http://www.louish.com/2007/08/
Of course you can do it from your PC, but not FROM the iPhone.
how?
It is hard to believe that a company such as Apple, who spends so much time delivering great products, screws up on something as basic as e-mail. However, they have managed to do it. By not providing a method to delete multiple e-mails, Apple has introduced the most inferior e-mail client to date. Apple, please correct this most grevious oversight (To be honest, it is hard to beleive this is an oversight. If deliberate, it makes me wonder why it was left out).
You can delete multiple emails on iPhone.
Open your email, go into inbox or trash, whatever you want to delete. Select one email, hold down the mark" button at the bottom of screen. Then deselect the email and let go the Mark" button. Select all as read. Do the same thing but instead of holding down mark", hold down the Move" button. Then select trash". Poof! They're gone!
There is absolutely no excuse for this, but thats apple. They are a half-assed, but slick-looking, high priced option that is lacking on the software side, and always has since they gave up making their own OS core and adopted the BSD, offering little praise to the people who made BSD, and therefore their success possible.
To add to the slap in the face of Open Source community, I had to pay $4.99 for my iphone (not jailbroken) OpenSSH client which is a core, free feature of any BSD operating system. Way to bite the hand that feeds you...sheesh.
Tim
for anyone that got confused by tim's stupidity let me clear things up. In a nutshell, he basically said, "i am a giant douche-bag and i need to get out more instead of bitching about random shit that clearly no one cares about.."
So we conclude by saying, Tim is a fag.
Bravo!!
Wow, homophobic a bit are we?
If I called you a pussy would you say I'm vajiphobic?
Tim may be a fag but he's right
I'm not sure how your childish playground name calling adds to the discussion but the bottom line is Tim's right. I have to use this shitty email client everyday. It's ridiculous that Jobs can't make this thing work properly. They must be too busy developing yet another iPod that will pollute landfills worldwide in 2 years time.
Apple is a joke and only sheep use that shit!
We all know apple is not the greatest, but if you people hate apple so much, why be on an iPhone website? If u don't like the product simply ignore it! I personally don't like nintendo wii's, I find them lacking in hardcore gaming functionality, but I don't go onto Ilovewii.com and say bad things about it! (BTW dnt google that you get some kinky stuff!) if you don't like apple, don't go on an apple support website! Thank you
~ Lachlan
Lachlan or Lalchan or whatever!!!
What would you do if your daughter gets kicked from her school? wont you visit something like school councelor or school support?
after spending a hefty dollars in the shitty iPhone, if you have a problem, whose ass you kick? yours? or Jobs'?
by the way, Jobs already dead, else i would like to kill him twice for the shit called iPhone he left in the world...
NOW for the guy that thinks tim is the devil for expressing a legitimate complaint. We are on the website because a sector of their ingenious product is grossly unsatisfactory. Let Tim speak. This phone is too darned high and the data package to boot makes this bull crap we're dealing with pretty darned PATHETIC of Apple. As soon as I find a better phone PEACE..I'M OUTTIE
I HAVE just changed from a Nokia X6 to an i phone 3g.
On Nokia to solve this problem we click " delete all messages" jeez that was hard aye, its ridiculous to think an i phone has not an option that phones had like 5 years ago!.
I have to say after years of using Nokias and being Nokia loyal ( which i still am) i decided to try out the enemies gadget.
I kept and open mind but i was disappointed i find Apple i phones comparably far more restricted and controlled compared to the much more functional open Nokia Phones.
It seems many small should be simple tasks are turned into headaches on i phones due to Apples control freak policies.
Seriously, can you believe a company thats once flagship phone has not a delete all message button?
Apple always puts its own selfish interests before millions of consumers, examples being, not allowing flash to be displayed ( i cant open my email account coz of this ) , restricting Bluetooth , not allowing open usb transfer mode , making batteries a nightmare to replace, and non standard connection ports.
Im sorry Nokia has been making phones for donkeys years now , and i think they simply know how to make a ""phone""" to function as a phone better.
Love you Nokia!
This Works for Me with PoP 3:
1. go to your PoP account and move all inbox messages to another folder (if you have web mail access to your inbox)
2. on iPhone, delete your PoP account (Settings/Mail, Contacts,Calendar, , delete button)
3. recreate PoP account (Settings/Mail,Contacts,Calendar, Add Account...)
Inbox should be clear of old mail.
Cheers....
Here is the quick and esay fix to delete all emails: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m2w9NZq5Ho
It doesn't seem to work on my iPad 2.
i have seen most screwd fone on this earth... i have 3gs,, i wanted to delete all sms as well as data..
it took 2 days,,,, they these engineers do not provide basic options to delete all contacts and smses... evn latest itunes 10.2 software doesnt provide that options
apple is good,,,, but blackberry , sony , nokia e series is better....nokia it supports,, zip,pdf, card scanner, poster reader,, quick backup restore,, etc
apart synchronising is so easy ,, evn 2 year old kid can do that..... cheers to e72,,,,
I HAVE just changed from a Nokia X6 to an i phone 3g.
On Nokia to solve this problem we click " delete all messages" jeez that was hard aye, its ridiculous to think an i phone has not an option that phones had like 5 years ago!.
I have to say after years of using Nokias and being Nokia loyal ( which i still am) i decided to try out the enemies gadget.
I kept and open mind but i was disappointed i find Apple i phones comparably far more restricted and controlled compared to the much more functional open Nokia Phones.
It seems many small should be simple tasks are turned into headaches on i phones due to Apples control freak policies.
Seriously, can you believe a company thats once flagship phone has not a delete all message button?
Apple always puts its own selfish interests before millions of consumers, examples being, not allowing flash to be displayed ( i cant open my email account coz of this ) , restricting Bluetooth , not allowing open usb transfer mode , making batteries a nightmare to replace, and non standard connection ports.
Im sorry Nokia has been making phones for donkeys years now , and i think they simply know how to make a ""phone""" to function as a phone better.
Love you Nokia!
There is a way:
http://www.icopybot.com/blog/how-to-bulk-delete-sms-messages-from-iphone-without-jailbreak.htm
To delete everything completely, go to General in settings and "Delete all content and settings". That's it :)
deleting all content and settings also deletes your iOS, it actually deletes ALL content!
I have always been baffled by this but thankfully cydia has the answer. Deletemail install it respring enable it in settings and enjoy it
They've done a couple of updates but this issue is still eminent
See I have 5000+ unread messages from my mail and dang they are all spam
Is there a way to delete all of them at once?
http://www.farneville.com/2011/07/how-to-setup-or-configure-sun-cellular-internet-in-iphone-4.html
Yeah you can via a Cydia app called "AllMail".
It also allows you to perform other "mass actions" on your emails.
Youtube video of it in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLvA4gbW_nI
So here's how to mark every single email on your iphone as read. In your mail programme simply Select edit, then Select one email, then hold the Mark button and at same time deselect the email Press the Mark As Read button Voila! All emails will be marked as read.... :)
I can hear the celebrations from here...finally a way to do it. Woohoo!
You, sir, are a genius. Cheers!
This is great for marking them as read, but how do you delete all of them at once? My old Blackberry had a "delete all earlier" button that was great. I would love a quick way to clear all of the e-mails out of my iPhone and iPad once I know I have received them on my iMac.
Charlie, Thank You!
In iPhone email list select ‘Edit’ then press & hold ‘Delete’ then select an email (whilst still holding the ‘Delete’ button. This should bring up the ‘Delete all’ button. This should work the same for ‘Mark’ & ‘Move’ function too.
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 u will ACTUALLY move them or delete them on the server and not just the ipad.
This does not work for text messages. ಠ_ಠ