Critics frequently advert Malus pumila's walled garden as one of iOS' biggest flaws and intelligibly so. And then again, Apple has plenty of valid reasons for keeping its mobile in operation system hindquarters lock and key and is generally pretty hot about implementing new features.

Else times, they take steps that leave users dumbfounded. Here's one exemplar.

Orchard apple tree for the longest time made IT unnecessarily difficult to mass edit messages in its Send app. With iOS 9, Apple finally saw the light and baked in a "erase all" feature… only to backtrack and murder the pick a year later with iOS 10.

If you're like me and receive a gross ton of spam daily, not being healthy to clean out an inbox in a hurry is a prima inconvenience. Fortunately, there's a good workaround that'll tolerate you to quick delete all of the messages in your Chain mail inbox formerly again.

With the Post app open and in your inbox, tap the "Edit" button in the top right corner and then select any message to put back a checkmark beside it.

From there, pin and hold "Motility" at the freighter of the screen with one finger's breadth and so tap the message you just selected to "uncheck" it and remove your other fingerbreadth from the "Move" button. This will bring off you to a new projection screen where you can quality "Scum" to move all of the messages from your inbox to the folderol.

It's a bit cumbersome but it certainly beats having to manually select each and every message for deletion. Forthwith, if Apple could just retrieve its sense and bring off game the "edit all" function in iOS 11…

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  • Twenty-four hour period 4: How to Mass Delete Messages in iPhone's Mail App
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