The Cell Phone Junkie

Managing email through GMail on iOS has long been something of a clunky process. If you didn’t know better, you’d assume that the trash icon at the bottom of the app actually deletes an email…though, you’d be wrong. The moving a message to All Mail action when hitting trash on a message makes sense if you understand that Google set up the service to save all messages you receive, but over time, they’re relenting to the fact that not everyone wants this to be the case, and have provided us the option now for “Deleting Email As Trash”.

Simply head over to http://m.google.com/sync from your mobile browser, and you’ll be faced with a list of devices that have synced in the past with your Google account, then choose the appropriate device. You may notice a ton of phones and tablets in your list, choose the one(s) that are still active by looking for the “Last sync” date of today.

Then, check the box for “Enable “Delete Email As Trash” for this device. Hit Save, and you’re all set. Now when you delete email messages in iOS mail, they are properly moved to the trash. You can still archive using the move to folder function. Finally…a way to properly delete email through the iOS platform.

Thanks Matt and Dave And Gmail