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 emails

In Mail on iCloud.com, select the email or emails you want to delete.
Tip: To select all emails in a folder, press Command-A on a Mac (or Control-A on a Windows computer).
Do either of the following:
- If you selected one email: Click at the top right.
- If you selected multiple emails: Click Bin.

If you see or Archive, you have “Show Archive icon in the toolbar” selected in Mail settings. See Archive email in Mail on iCloud.com. To delete an email or emails, do one of the following:

If you selected one email: Click at the top right, then click Bin Message.
If you selected multiple emails: Click Move, click Bin, then click Move.

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, click at the top of the Mailboxes list.
Choose Empty Bin, then click 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, click at the top of the Mailboxes list, then choose Settings.
Click Mailbox Behaviour, then 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, click at the top of the Mailboxes list, then choose Settings.
Click Mailbox Behaviour, select “Move deleted messages to”, click the current folder, choose another folder or click to create a new folder, then click Done.

To delete Mail folders, see Organise email with folders in Mail on iCloud.com.

Learn how to use Mail on iCloud.com on a phone or tablet.

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Delete email in Mail on iCloud.com

Delete emails

Empty the Bin

Erase emails immediately and permanently

Change the location of deleted emails