I just wanted to move my emails to the trash when I left swipe, but the only option is to archive them. I’ve tried changing it in mail, but trash is the only option that doesn’t exist (as opposed to flag, archive, etc.) In iOS 17 and before, Passwords & Accounts existed and you could change this in advanced settings, but I’m unable to figure out how to fix it in iOS 17
iPhone 12, iOS 17
Hi Justice4Jorden,
We know just how to resolve this for you, so it won't be inconvenient in the future. Just follow the steps we've provided for you below.
"Set Trash or Archive as your default option
Depending on the type of email account you have, you might see Archive instead of Trash when you try to delete emails. You can edit where your deleted messages go in your Mail settings:
Swipe to delete and other ways to discard one email
or the Trash button 
from within an email.You can also use the steps to delete multiple emails to delete a single email."
Reference: Delete emails on your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support
Cheers!
Hi Justice4Jorden,
We know just how to resolve this for you, so it won't be inconvenient in the future. Just follow the steps we've provided for you below.
"Set Trash or Archive as your default option
Depending on the type of email account you have, you might see Archive instead of Trash when you try to delete emails. You can edit where your deleted messages go in your Mail settings:
Swipe to delete and other ways to discard one email
or the Trash button from within an email.You can also use the steps to delete multiple emails to delete a single email."
Reference: Delete emails on your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support
Cheers!
I thought the directions didn't work, but--finally--figured it out. Two things:
1) after setting Trash as your Deleted Mailbox under "Mailbox Behaviors" look below to "Move Discarded Messages Into" and make sure Deleted Mailbox is checked.
2) Power the phone/pad off, give it a few secs, power on. Magic.
I’ve done this.. it still only has archive as an option.. and when I swipe it says they are archived, yet Gmail doesn’t have an archive box I can look at and it’s not in the trash.. so it seems that email just disappears…
This worked for me, both my Gmail and yahoo trash when swiping left. Thanks for the instructions.
Did you figure out what to do? I'm not able to and apple support wasn't helpful at all.
No trash option available in swipe
