Keith DG
gregybull
dgchris
kristenavanerven
I’ve had an iPod Touch for some time now and I fall more in love with it every day. The other day while checking my email I accidentally ran across what I would assume is a feature. My normal operation for checking my email is enabling the wireless and then tapping on the email application. The application starts, downloads my new mail, if any, and displays my email in a normal one column and multi-row fashion. I then read who the email is from, the subject and then I make a determination whether I want to read it or delete it.
Many times it is spam so I just slide my finger on the right side of the email display line and a delete button appears. I can then press this “delete” button to delete the email. This works ok but if I have a lot to delete many times when I slide my finger to make the delete button appear the device will read that as an “open the email” gesture and opens the email. I then have to close the email and slide my finger to the right again and hope the delete button appears. I wish there was a way to select multiple emails to delete……well there is.
As I said, I stumble across this feature but since doing so I use it quite often. With your email application showing, just tap toward the top of the screen. For example, tap to the right of the time at the top of the application. The emails are then shifted to the right a little and a select circle is then available on the front of each email along the left side of the screen. I can then quickly scan each email and then tap on the ones I know I want to delete and now tap the delete icon at the bottom of the screen. I could also move them to a folder by using the other “move” option.
Well, that’s it. I know super simple but effective. This tip may be publicly known for many but I have yet to hear anyone talk about it so I thought I would share.
Enjoy!
-Chris
November 30, 2008 at 3:59 am
How do you get the screen shots?
March 8, 2009 at 11:24 pm
thanks..saves me hours!
May 21, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Thank you for this tip!! It was driving me crazy! Deleting one at a time was awful! Thank you again!
June 4, 2009 at 5:18 pm
thank you sooooo much…..what a time saver !!!! why didn’t we know about this from apple???
June 27, 2009 at 10:14 pm
good 1, but repeating the operation manually tens of times is pretty discouraging when your mailbox is over a hundred messages. any ’select all’ function that you know of?
July 15, 2009 at 2:03 am
Thank you….worked perfectly and saves a lot of finicky picking.
Glasslady
August 9, 2009 at 4:15 pm
I agree, while this is an easy delete function there still needs to be a way to delete as a “select all” option! It is terribly tedious deleting 200 msg’s selecting one at a time.
August 15, 2009 at 8:16 am
Thanks Chris!
I really needed that!
I used to delete every single email….!
your tip really helped!
Thanks
August 26, 2009 at 4:44 am
hey, i am trying to use this feature. it’s not working for me. i tap the top of the screen and all the little red cirlces show. when i click on a circle the turns from horizontal to vertical, and it will only let me delete them one at a time. what software version do you have?
Tamika
September 11, 2009 at 8:40 pm
As a long time Blackberry user, I can say without question that Apple has a way to go in terms of making the iTouch or phone an email machine. It is a superior device for so many other uses, but the lack of delete prior or select all is a serious fault.
September 28, 2009 at 5:39 pm
When you delete messages in your ipod touch they simply get moved to the ‘TRASH’ folder and if they happen to have attachements, these ‘deleted’ messages still take up lots of memory space. How do you configure the ipood touch to get rid of emails permanently when you’delete’ them from your inbox??