I can't see any good way to select all emails in the iOS 18.2 Mail app. I think you can do it by scrolling down with two fingers, but that's a pain when you have hundreds of emails. In the older versions of Mail I would normally Select All then Mark as Read which made it easy to see where I left off the last time.
Am I missing something?
TIA
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iPhone 16 Pro Max
Even if I scroll to the left all mail does not appear! Why to change something thats working perfect, I get really annoyed with this! Apple do better! I wish that I did not download this new update
Open Mail upper right corner three dots click, and list mail is one of the choices that appears to be the old way
Thanks. I'd read about that before but couldn't get it to work. Turns out, at least on my phone, if I scroll to the left to get All Mail, tap on All Mail, the Select All button doesn't appear for some reason. But if I again scroll to the left so All Mail is visible, the Select All magically appears. Must be a bug. Thanks for your help.
My selection button at the top vanished on iPad with iOS 18.2. I’m sure it was there yesterday…anyhow I force restarted my iPad, no change then exasperated I did it again & the select button is now back allowing multiple emails to be selected to put in bin / delete etc
..."At your mail box , on the top across you can see Primary plus three other icons( transactions , updates & promotions ) . .. "
Huh? first off, what is "your mail box"? Would that be the "Inbox" screen? Or the "Mailboxes" screen? In either case, I see nothing across the top like "three other icons( transactions , updates & promotions ) "
I'm on 18.3.2 and have the issue where I can Not Select all the emails so I can Delete them like from Junk or Trash or Inbox.
I have the the "Settings / Display / Brightness / Text Size" set with the text size TOO large.
This tops you from swiping the Icons under the "Search Box" to the Left and seeing the Icons like:
"ALL Mail". If you try and Swipe to the Left you can Not get to the far Right since the Text Size was NOT taken into consideration when this feature was codded.
I changed my "Text Size" smaller until, in Mail when I swipe to the Left I could see the Icon "ALL Mail".
Then at the upper Left of the screen I could see the "Select ALL" Button.
I clicked the "Select ALL" Button and ALL the emails in the list are selected.
Then I just clicked on "Mark" Button on the Bottom and all the emails are selected then I click the Move to trash then Do the whole process over to get rid of the emails in the Trash Folder.
Do you know how to contact the Moderator to move a solution/work around to the First Item to the TO of replies?
Thanks,
cranem451
Quality Assurance Software Engineer ( retired )
I had the same issue and changing:
Settings / Display & Brightness / Text Size
an reducing the Size of the Text SMALLER
I could finally select ALL of the email messages.
Then perform stuff on ALL of them at once
like Marking as Read, Moving to Trash, deleting ALL of them.
Give it a try and let me know if it Works around your issue.
If so then we can try and get Apple to fix the issue once they
understand what is causing the issue.
You will Not see the issue if the "Text Size" is small enough.
Having the display screen have larger icons may cause this issue also.
cranem451
In mail app with iOS 18 and previews versions you have to tap in Edit right corner then on All left corner then on the trash 🗑️ icon to delete all mails at once
Yes, and I loved how easy that was! But they changed it in 18.2. Now it's less obvious and requires another couple taps.
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I had to force restart my iPad twice before the “select “ button appeared back at the top. Just a glitch on some devices I feel
I simply want to select all of the emails in my “promotions” folder and delete them. Surely if Microsoft can do this Apple can.
It doesn’t work!
Once I tap an all mail the option to choose them goes away
Click on the three dots on upper right and select list view.
Recent possibility to select emails to erase disappeared! Now it is only possible to open individually or to scroll from right to left and in settings choose an option and erase each one separately
I also cannot get to All Mail. I too wish I never updated to this version of iOS.
How to select all emails in the iOS 18.2 Mail app?
