iCloud User Guide
- Welcome
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- Sign in and use iCloud.com
- Customize the homepage
- Keynote
- Numbers
- Pages
- Recover files and information
- Use iCloud on your Windows computer
- Get more help with iCloud
- Legal notices and acknowledgements
- Copyright
Delete email in Mail on iCloud.com
Deleted messages are moved to the Trash mailbox. When you delete a message, it’s saved in your Trash for 30 days, after which it’s permanently erased. When you delete an email from iCloud.com, it’s deleted on all your devices that have Mail turned on in iCloud settings.
You can also change where your deleted messages 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 messages
In Mail on iCloud.com, select the message or messages you want to delete.
Tip: To select all messages in a folder, press Command-A on a Mac (or Control-A on a Windows computer).
Do any of the following:
If you selected one message: Click
at the top right.If you selected multiple messages: Click Delete.
If you see 
instead of , you have “Show Archive icon in the toolbar” selected in Mail Preferences. See Archive email in Mail on iCloud.com. To delete a message or messages, do one of the following:
If you selected one message: Click
at the top right, then click Trash Message.If you selected multiple messages: Click Move, click Trash, then click Move.
Empty the Trash
You can delete all the messages in the Trash at the same time.
Important: When you empty the Trash, the messages are permanently deleted. You can’t recover them.
In Mail on iCloud.com, click
at the top of the Mailboxes list.Choose Empty Trash, then click Empty Trash again.
Erase emails immediately and permanently
You can set iCloud Mail to permanently and immediately erase messages when you delete them, instead of moving them to the Trash.
In Mail on iCloud.com, click
at the top of the Mailboxes list, then choose Preferences.In the General tab, deselect “Move deleted messages to,” then click Done.
Change the location of deleted messages
By default, messages in iCloud Mail are moved to the Trash when you delete them. You can change the folder they’re moved to.
In Mail on iCloud.com, click
at the top of the Mailboxes list, then choose Preferences.In the General tab, select “Move deleted messages to,” choose a folder or click
to create a new folder, then click Done.
To delete Mail folders, see Organize email with folders in Mail on iCloud.com.