Delete email in Mail on iCloud.com
Deleted emails are moved to the Bin mailbox. When you delete an email, it is saved in your Bin for 30 days, after which it is permanently erased. When you delete an email from iCloud.com, it is deleted on all your devices that have Mail turned on in iCloud settings.
You can also change where your deleted emails are stored.
Important: If you view iCloud Mail in another app (for example, the Mail app on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch), your mail might be deleted sooner than 30 days depending on the app’s settings.
Delete an email
In Mail on iCloud.com, tap the email, then tap
.
Delete multiple emails
In Mail on iCloud.com, tap Edit at the top of the email list, then tap
next to the email or emails you want to delete.Tap Trash at the bottom of the email list.
If you see Archive instead of Trash, you have “Show Archive icon in the toolbar” selected in Mail settings. See Archive email in Mail on iCloud.com.
Empty the Bin
You can delete all the emails in the Bin at the same time.
Important: When you empty the Bin, the emails are permanently deleted. You cannot recover them.
In Mail on iCloud.com, tap
at the top of the Mailboxes list.Choose Empty Bin, then tap Empty Bin again.
Erase emails immediately and permanently
You can set iCloud Mail to permanently and immediately erase emails when you delete them, instead of moving them to the Bin.
In Mail on iCloud.com, tap
at the top of the Mailboxes list, then choose Settings.In the Mailbox Behaviour tab, deselect “Move deleted messages to”.
Change the location of deleted emails
By default, emails in iCloud Mail are moved to the Bin when you delete them. You can change the folder they are moved to.
In Mail on iCloud.com, tap
at the top of the Mailboxes list, then choose Settings.In the Mailbox Behaviour tab, select “Move deleted messages to”, choose a folder or tap
to create a new folder, then tap Done.
To delete Mail folders, see Organise email with folders in Mail on iCloud.com.