Critics often cite Apple's walled garden as one of iOS' biggest flaws and understandably so. So again, Apple tree has plenty of valid reasons for keeping its mobile operating system behind lock and cardinal and is more often than not pretty skillful about implementing new features.

Other times, they take steps that get out users dumbfounded. Here's 1 example.

Apple for the longest time made information technology unnecessarily difficult to mass delete messages in its Mail app. With iOS 9, Apple finally saw the light and broiled in a "delete all" feature… only to backtrack and remove the option a twelvemonth subsequently with iOS x.

If you're like me and receive a ton of spam daily, non being able to clean out an inbox in a hurry is a major inconvenience. Fortunately, there's a nifty workaround that'll allow you lot to rapidly delete all of the messages in your Post inbox once again.

With the Mail service app open and in your inbox, tap the "Edit" button in the top right corner then select whatsoever message to put a checkmark beside it.

From at that place, tap and hold "Motion" at the bottom of the screen with one finger and then tap the bulletin yous just selected to "uncheck" it and remove your other finger from the "Move" push button. This will bring yous to a new screen where you tin can select "Trash" to move all of the messages from your inbox to the trash.

It's a bit cumbersome but it certainly beats having to manually select each and every bulletin for deletion. At present, if Apple tree could but regain its sense and bring back the "delete all" function in iOS 11…

5 days, 5 killer tech tips is a TechSpot monthly feature

This week we're publishing v killer tech tips for iPhone and iOS users.

  • Twenty-four hour period 1: How to Clasp the Nigh Out of Your iPhone's Battery
  • Twenty-four hour period 2: How to Easily Brand iPhone Ringtones Using Only iTunes
  • Day 3: Hidden Siri Commands and Responses You Do Non Know Of
  • Day 4: How to Mass Delete Messages in iPhone's Mail service App
  • Day 5: Parental Controls: How to Lock Downwards Your Kids' iOS Devices