iCloud User Guide
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- Sign in and use iCloud.com
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- Recover files and information
- Use iCloud on your Windows device
- Get more help with iCloud
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Delete email in Mail on iCloud.com
Deleted emails are moved to the Trash mailbox. When you delete an email, 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 emails are stored.
Important: If you view iCloud Mail in another app (for example, the Mail app on your iPhone or iPad), your mail might be deleted sooner than 30 days depending on the app’s settings.
Delete emails
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Go to icloud.com/mail, then sign in to your Apple Account (if necessary).
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 device).
Do any of the following:
If you selected one email: Click
at the top-right.If you selected multiple emails: Click Trash.
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 Trash Message.If you selected multiple emails: Click Move, click Trash, then click Move.
Tip: You can also hold your pointer over an email in the message list, click 
, then choose Trash Message.
Empty the Trash
You can delete all the emails in the Trash at the same time.
Important: When you empty the Trash, the emails are permanently deleted. You can’t recover them.
Go to icloud.com/mail, then sign in to your Apple Account (if necessary).
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 emails when you delete them, instead of moving them to the Trash.
Go to icloud.com/mail, then sign in to your Apple Account (if necessary).
Click
at the top of the Mailboxes list, then choose Settings.Click Mailbox Behavior, then deselect “Move deleted messages to.”
Change the location of deleted emails
By default, emails in iCloud Mail are moved to the Trash when you delete them. You can change the folder they’re moved to.
Go to icloud.com/mail, then sign in to your Apple Account (if necessary).
Click
at the top of the Mailboxes list, then choose Settings.Click Mailbox Behavior, select “Move deleted messages to,” then click the current folder.
Choose another 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.