Delete an Email from iPhone Mail

This article teaches you how to delete email messages from your iPhone's Mail app.

10 Second Summary

1. Open Mail.
2. Select an email message to delete.
3. Swipe left across the message.
4. Tap Trash.

Open Mail. It's a blue app that contains a sealed, white envelope icon.
Select an email message. Locate the email message you'd like to delete.
- If the email message you want to delete is in a different folder or mailbox, tap the Back (<) link in the upper-left corner of the screen and select the correct folder.
Swipe from right to left. Use one finger to swipe from the right side of the message to the left until a series of buttons appears.
Tap Trash. It's the red button on the right side of the screen. Now the email message has been deleted from the current mailbox and moved to the "Trash" folder.

Open Mail. It's a blue app that contains a sealed, white envelope icon.
- If the email messages you want to delete are in a different folder or mailbox, tap the Back (<) link in the upper-left corner of the screen and select the correct location.
Tap Edit. It's in the upper-right corner of the screen.^[1]
Select the email messages you want to delete. Do so by tapping the circles that appear to the left of the messages.
- To select all the email messages in the folder, tap Mark All in the lower-left corner.
Tap Trash. It's in the lower-right corner. Now all of the selected email messages have been moved to the Trash folder.

Open Mail. It's a blue app that contains a sealed, white envelope icon.
Tap the "Back" (<) link. It's in the upper-left corner and will take you to the "Mailboxes" screen.
Tap Trash. It's in the second section of the main "Mailboxes" menu.
Tap Edit. It's in the upper-right corner of the screen.
Select the email messages you want to delete. Do so by tapping the circles that appear to the left of the messages.
- To permanently delete all email messages in the folder, tap Delete All in the lower-right corner before selecting any individual email messages.
Tap Delete. It's in the lower-right corner. Now all of the selected email messages have been permanently deleted from your iPhone.

Open Settings. It's a gray app that contains an image of gears (⚙️) and is typically located on the home screen.
Scroll down and tap Mail. It's in the section of the menu that contains other Apple apps, like Contacts and Notes.
Tap Accounts. It's at the top of the menu.
Tap an email account. Select the account you want to delete from your iPhone.
Tap Delete Account. It's at the bottom of the menu.
Tap Delete from My iPhone. Doing so removes the email account and all of its messages and other data from your iPhone.