Way too many eMails on iPhone 6+

[WestofYouLB]

My phone shows I have over 19,400 emails and they just keep growing.

I have no idea how to get rid of the bulk of them other than to delete one by one. A weekend’s sad occupation.

Called Apple and they said I had to ask my email provider. Unfortunately, they are squeezing for money (I have an old Verizon email account and their email was bought by AOL, who won’t talk to me unless I begin paying them).

So has anyone managed to work through this issue?

Thanks.

 

[jagolden]

My phone shows I have over 19,400 emails and they just keep growing.

I have no idea how to get rid of the bulk of them other than to delete one by one. A weekend’s sad occupation.

Called Apple and they said I had to ask my email provider. Unfortunately, they are squeezing for money (I have an old Verizon email account and their email was bought by AOL, who won’t talk to me unless I begin paying them).

So has anyone managed to work through this issue?

Thanks.

Can you log onto your email account on a desktop/laptop and "select all" then delete, or select in big batches and delete those big batches?

 

[Helmsley]

In the Mail app, go to the folder that contains the messages, then Edit (top right) then Mark All (bottom left) then Delete (bottom right).

It might take a while to mark them all due to the number, but it should work.

 

[jsbhowell13]

I have just finished clearing 15,000 emails using the following 5 steps. Hope it helps.

Step 1: Go to Inbox or other mailboxes that have no “Delete All”, and click Edit on the top corner.

Step 2: After selecting one email, press and hold the “Move” on the bottom and then uncheck the email you selected. (Make sure not release“Move” until you uncheck all the items you checked before.)

Step 3: It will bring you to a page that allows you to move all emails to another folder, such as Junk and Trash. In this way, you can move all emails to trash.

Step 4: After moving all emails to trash, just click Edit > “Delete All” in the trash to get rid of all emails in Inbox or other boxes that have no “Trash All”.

Step 5: Go to Trash folder and clean all emails.