How to delete Outlook emails on iPhone

Here's how to delete multiple unread emails at once on your iPhone, and how to delete all emails on your iPhone. These tips work for deleting emails in Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, and any other email account you have synced to your Apple device. Here's the hidden workaround to mass delete all emails, or just all unread emails quickly. 

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We've already gone over how to delete or remove an email account from your iPhone. Also, be sure to check out how to add multiple Gmail accounts to your iPhone if you have more than one email account. Now, let's learn what to do if you don't want to delete your entire account. Here's how to delete multiple emails in Gmail, another email account, or All Inboxes. For more great email tutorials, check out our free Tip of the Day.

1. Open the Mail app.
   
   
    
2. Tap All Inboxes, or select a specific email account.
   
   
    
3. Tap the Filter icon at the bottom of the screen, then tap Edit in the upper-right corner.
   
   
    
4. Without pressing, start at the empty circle to the left of the first email you want to delete and swipe down to bottom of the page with your finger and hold it there until all the unread emails are selected. 
5. You'll see all the circles become highlighted in blue, and the number of emails you've selected at the top of the page. If a preview of the first email pops up instead, you have used too much pressure.
6. Once you've selected all the emails you'd like to delete, tap Trash.
   
   
    
7. Before I started this process, I had over five hundred unread emails in my Inbox.
8. After a few seconds of swiping, I deleted hundreds of unread emails.
   
   
    

If you realize at this point that you’ve messed up and don’t want to delete everything, after all, don’t panic. Undo the mass deletion by using Shake to Undo. Just give your iPhone a shake and then tap Undo. It may take a while to restore the emails.

If you want to delete all your emails at once in a particular Mailbox, or even All Inboxes, you can. Let's go over how to delete all emails in Gmail, or any other email account, on your iPhone.

1. First, tap the Mailbox you'd like to empty (this could be All Inboxes, or a specific inbox like Gmail or Yahoo).
   
   
    
2. Tap Edit.
   
   
    
3. Tap Select All.
   
   
    
4. Now, tap Trash, and all the emails in the Mailbox will be deleted.

If you're trying to clean up space on your device, consider learning how to delete apps from your iPhone and iPad.

With simple gestures you can take control of your inbox and delete one or multiple email messages at the same time.

1. Open Mail and go to your Inbox.
2. Tap Edit in the upper-right corner, then individually select the emails that you want to delete, or tap Select All.
3. Tap Trash or Archive. If you only see Archive, touch and hold Archive to see other options like Trash Selected Messages.

1. Open Mail and go to your Inbox. 
2. Tap Edit in the upper-right corner, then select the email that you want to delete. 
3. Tap Trash or Archive.

You can also quickly swipe left over a single email to delete it. Or touch and hold the email from your Inbox, then tap the Trash button

If you're trying to delete a message from within the email, tap the Archive button 

Depending on the type of email account you have, you might see Archive instead of Trash when you try to delete emails. You can edit your mailbox behavior settings to change this.

With simple gestures, you can take control of your inbox and delete one or multiple email messages at the same time.

1. Open Mail and go to your Inbox.
2. Tap Edit in the upper-right corner, then individually select the emails that you want to delete, or tap Select All.
3. Tap Bin or Archive. If you only see Archive, touch and hold Archive to see other options such as Bin Selected Messages.

1. Open Mail and go to your Inbox. 
2. Tap Edit in the upper-right corner, then select the email that you want to delete. 
3. Tap Bin or Archive.

You can also quickly swipe left over a single email to delete it. Or touch and hold the email from your Inbox, then tap the Bin button

If you're trying to delete a message from within the email, tap the Archive button 

Depending on the type of email account you have, you might see Archive instead of Bin when you try to delete emails. You can edit your mailbox behaviour settings to change this.

You can set up almost any kind of email account on an iPhone, and the process for doing so can be completed in just a short series of steps.

Once an account is set up, you will continue to send and receive emails on your device for as long as the account remains or until something like a password for one of those email accounts is changed.

An email account from the Outlook service provides by Microsoft is one of the more popular free email services available, and the Apple iPhone provides a quick method for adding it from the Accounts screen.

But if you have moved to a different Outllok email address, or a different email provider altogether, then you might be looking for the delete button for that Outlook email address.

You can remove a Microsoft Outlook email account from an iPhone by going to Settings > Mail > Accounts > Outlook > then tapping the Delete account button and choosing the Delete from My iPhone option to confirm.

An Outlook.com email address can be added to an iPhone very quickly, as it is one of the default email account options on the device. If you find that you no longer use the account, however, then you may decide to delete it entirely to stop receiving messages that are sent to the account. Our guide below will show you how to complete this process.

New Method – How to Delete Outlook Email from an iPhone

1. Open the Settings app.
2. Select the Mail option.
3. Touch the Accounts button.
4. Select your Outlook account.
5. Tap Delete Account.
6. Touch Delete from My iPhone to confirm.

Our guide continues below with additional information on removing an Outlook email account from an iOS device like an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch.

If you have more than one email account then you may want to read our guide on multiple Yahoo email accounts for an easy way to manage them.

Old Method – Deleting an Outlook.com Email Address on an iPhone 6 (Guide with Pictures)

The steps in this article were written using an iPhone 6 Plus, in iOS 8. These steps will also work for other iPhone models running iOS 8. Steps may vary slightly for devices using different versions of iOS.

Step 1: Open the Settings menu.

Step 2: Scroll down and select the Mail, Contacts, Calendars option.

Step 3: Select your Outlook.com email account from the list of accounts at the top of the screen.

Step 4: Tap the Delete Account button at the bottom of the screen.

Step 5: Tap the Delete from My iPhone button at the bottom of the screen.

Our tutorial continues below with additional discussion about how to delete Outlook account from iPhone.

Do you have additional questions about deleting iPhone accounts? Our can I delete email account on iPhone article can answer those questions.

More Information on How to Remove Outlook Account – iPhone

When you remove an account from your iPhone it only affects the ability of information associated with that account to appear on the device. That account will still exist, and you will still be able to use it on other devices, and in other software, like the Outlook iPhone app.

The Outlook app for the iPhone, and even the Outlook Android app, provide ways for you to manage your email on multiple accounts simultaneously. You simply need to download the app from the App Store (or the Google Play Store) and then sign into the accounts that you want to use in the app with your email address and password.

If you are using the Outlook iPhone app rather than the default Mail app on the iPhone, then you might be trying to remove an Outlook account, or one of the connected accounts associated with that email address.

You can delete an Outlook email address or a connected account from the app by opening the Outlook app, then tapping the More button, and choosing Settings. You can then tap Accounts, select the account that you would like to delete, then tap Delete Account. Note that you will need to enter the password for that account to confirm that you want to delete it.

Note that when you choose the remove account option for your Microsoft Office Outlook account, it is going to remove the email, as well as any contacts or calendars associated with the account. If you still want to keep those things on your iPhone but just want to remove the mail, then you can go back to the Settings > Mail > Accounts > Outlook menu and tap the button to the right of Mail to turn it off while leaving the Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, and Notes options enabled.

Are you trying to add a new email account to your iPhone, but the account type is not one of the listed options? This article will show you how to add an email account that is not from one of the more popular email providers.

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