{"id":7079,"date":"2019-03-01T13:07:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T18:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=6970"},"modified":"2019-03-02T12:42:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T17:42:33","slug":"choose-archiving-or-deleting-messages-in-ios-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/choose-archiving-or-deleting-messages-in-ios-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Choose Archiving or Deleting Messages in iOS Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you\u2019re viewing a message in Mail on an iPhone or iPad, you get five buttons: Flag, Move, Archive or Delete, Reply\/Forward\/Print, and New Message. But what determines whether that third button is Archive or Delete? iOS hides that option in Settings &gt; Passwords &amp; Accounts &gt; <i>YourEmailAccount<\/i>\u2014the details then vary by account type before you see the Move Discarded Messages Into options.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>iCloud as your primary address: Mail (under Advanced) &gt; Advanced<\/li>\n<li>iCloud as a secondary address: Account &gt; Mail &gt; Advanced<\/li>\n<li>Gmail or other email provider: Account &gt; Advanced<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But what if you want to archive a message when you have Deleted Mailbox selected, or vice versa? Simply tap and hold on the Archive or Delete icon, and a popover appears, giving you both choices.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6969\" src=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/choose-between-archiving-and-deleting-messages-in-ios-mail.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/choose-between-archiving-and-deleting-messages-in-ios-mail.png 1024w, https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/iOS-Mail-Delete-Archive-setting-300x126.png 300w, https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/iOS-Mail-Delete-Archive-setting-768x322.png 768w, https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/iOS-Mail-Delete-Archive-setting-1080x452.png 1080w, https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/iOS-Mail-Delete-Archive-setting.png 1127w\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"126\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you\u2019re viewing a message in Mail on an iPhone or iPad, you get five buttons: Flag, Move, Archive or Delete, Reply\/Forward\/Print, and New Message. But what determines whether that third button is Archive or Delete? iOS hides that option in Settings &gt; Passwords &amp; Accounts &gt; YourEmailAccount\u2014the details then vary by account type before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,184,69,548,880,8,112],"tags":[255,51,117],"class_list":["post-7079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","category-apple-consultants","category-apple-consulting-ct","category-ios-12","category-ipad","category-iphone","category-mac-support-ct","tag-ios-12","tag-ipad","tag-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7098,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7079\/revisions\/7098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}