How to Delete All Emails on iPhone

How to Remove an Email Account from iPhone

Removing an email account from the Mail app is arguably the simplest way how to instantly mass delete emails on iPhone. Yes, this option is what some would call “nuclear” as it means that you will no longer be able to receive new emails.

1. Open the settings app
2. Click on the Mail category (it may also be called Contacts or Calendars, depending on your version of iOS).
3. Select the email account you wish to remove.
4. Click on Delete Account.
5. Confirm your choice by clicking on the Delete Account option again.

Don’t worry: removing your email account from your iPhone doesn’t delete the email account itself. You will still be able to access all your emails from the web or using a different email app. Removing your email account from your iPhone also doesn’t delete the emails from the server—only from your iPhone.

How to Delete Multiple Emails on iPhone

Usually, it’s easy to tell which emails can be deleted just by reading the subject. If your inbox consists of a mix of personal conversations and marketing garbage, you might find it useful to know how to delete multiple emails at once:

1. Open the Mail app.
2. Click any folder that contains emails that you would like to delete.
3. Click on the Edit button.
4. Click on each email that you would like to delete to mark it.
5. Click on the Trash button in the bottom-right corner to deleted selected emails.

This will move your emails to the Trash folder. To delete them from the Trash folder, navigate to it and repeat the process. Yes, this means that you have to repeat the same procedure twice, but the second round should be quicker since the Trash folder contains only the email you wish to delete.

How to Mass Delete Emails on iPhone with CleanEmail

All the above-described email cleanup methods have their limitations. If your inbox contains years’ worth of emails from many different senders—some worth keeping and some not—neither deleting everything at once nor deleting individual emails one-by-one is a good option. Instead, we recommend CleanEmail for iOS, which is a powerful email cleanup utility designed to help you organize, remove, label, and archive your emails with a simple click.

CleanEmail is smart. It can understand and automatically sort out your inbox without infringing on your privacy. By analyzing email headers that contain subject line, sender and recipient information, dates, email size, and similar metadata, CleanEmail groups similar emails together, allowing you to manage them in bulk without any effort at all.

For example, it can separate bounced emails notifications from notifications from project management tools, large emails from emails from dead ends, junk emails and spam from social network notifications, emails you’ve sent to yourself from emails you replied to, or subscriptions and newsletters from finance emails, and much more. CleanEmail also has the so-called Smart Unsubscribe feature to make sure that newsletters, unwanted subscriptions, and other unwanted emails will not show up in your mailbox.

In other words, CleanEmail is a one-stop-shop for email management, and we strongly recommend it anyone who is wondering how to delete emails on iPhone. Best of all, CleanEmail supports a number of different email services, including but not limited to Gmail and other services that use a protocol called OAuth2 to control inbox access.