Swipe to delete email
Set mail app to swipe to delete emails.
iPhone 12
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barberlives123
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Hey there UncleFrank527,
Yes, you can swipe to delete emails on your iPhone without making any changes to the Mail app settings. Here’s how:
Swipe to delete and other ways to discard one email
- Swipe left quickly over a single email.
- Touch and hold an email from your Inbox, then tap Trash Message from the menu.
- Tap the Archive button
or the Trash button 
from within an email.
You can also use the steps to delete multiple emails to delete a single email.
Read more here:
Delete emails on your iPhone or iPad
We hope this helps. Take care.