How to select all emails in the iOS 18.2 Mail app?

Starski77 wrote:

I also have this question. It appears that it is not possible. Why Apple? Please fix this.

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If you haven't already, you should update to iOS 18.4.

Open Mail upper right corner three dots click, and list mail is one of the choices that appears to be the old way

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

I also have this question. It appears that it is not possible. Why Apple? Please fix this. If I do a search for all emails from a certain sender … Then please give me a select all feature to mass delete All emails from that search result. I realize that it may include email from multiple senders that got snagged up in that search. But hey, that’s less destructive than master deleting all emails from all senders to clean things up.

Ok, my problem is that once I choose to see "All Mail", as soon as I close my mail app on my phone, it goes back to just showing the default account, no ALL MAIL. I never see my icloud mail unless I choose ALL Mail from the list of inboxes.

Everything works fine on my MacBook, the issue is just on the iphone 16pro, with latest IOS

This is quite long so just buzz over it without trying to keep track of the steps. Then read it slowly and see if you can reproduce what I am Seeing.

The issue I see is that the Buttons under search that I see are:

Primary, Transactions, Updates, Promotions.

I am NOT seeing the "All Mail" Button.

Here is what is do and see it:

Only one button at a time has text.

Start by tapping on the Primary button on the left, it shows the word "Primary"

then click on the "Shopping Cart" button and it shows the text "Transactions"

Then click on the icon that look like a comment "Text on multiple lines and pinches to a point at the lower left it shows the text "Updates". Then the "Bull Horn" icon, click it and the text "Promotions".

The "All Mail" button/Icon is NOT in the List. If I place my finger on the Button/Icons and try to slide them Left or Right they move but just a little.

If I click on the "Promotions" button/Icon I get the "All Mail" Icon and the other four are just Icons.

When I hit the "Primary" Icon the "All Mail" Icon on the Right appears and has Text.

If I click on the "All Mail" button/Icon I get the "Primary" Button/Icon and the other four are just Icons.

It's like the "All Mail" is the LAST on on the right and the only was to get it to show is to Click the "Primary" Button/Icon. Also if i hold a Button/Icon ( that has text ) for more than a few second the release it ALL of the Icons collapse and one of them has Text in it.

Starting with "Promotions having text you can click on each Icon from Left to Right ending on "Promotions" then click the others and they all work. To get to the "All Mail" you can click ANY Button/Icon that has text and the "All Mail" icon has Text.

On my iPhone if the Text Size is too large you can not scroll the icons left and right.

If I change the Text Size small enough then ALL the Icons will fit side by side and you can scroll them all left and right.

If I set the Text Size is too large you can not scroll the icons left and right.

At this point on my iPhone you can just click on an Icon so it has text then click on it again and you should then see the "All Mail" Icon with Text.

Let me know if the above is what you are seeing.

Also let me know if the above is different from what you see when changing the Text size.

Try the smallest Font first, if it works try Two sizes Larger until the "All Mail" Icon does NOT appear.

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

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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