It can be frustrating if you lose important emails especially when you don’t know how to retrieve them. However, for iPhone users, all hope isn’t lost. You can still retrieve your deleted email. So, in this article, we will teach you how to retrieve deleted emails on iPhone.
In most cases, to retrieve deleted emails on your iPhone you won’t be able to check through the bin or trash box to retrieve it deciding to go for a paid tool to retrieve your email. Since you can accidentally delete your email by swiping up or sliding away on your phone screen, the iPhone makes it easier to retrieve it.
However, Apple makes provisions to retrieve deleted emails on your iPhone without the bin or undo or trash box.
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How to Retrieve Deleted Emails on iPhone
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There are a few ways to retrieve your deleted Gmail or Yahoo Mail on your iPhone. Meanwhile, the steps to retrieve recently deleted emails are different from how to retrieve emails that you deleted long ago.
Therefore, in this guide, we will section it into different categories on how you can recover archived emails, recently deleted and emails you have deleted long ago.
How to Retrieve Recently Deleted Emails on iPhone
If you mistakenly deleted your email a moment ago you can simply follow the steps below to retrieve it.
- Open your iPhone “Mail Box.”
- Shake your “iPhone” really well (back and front).
- A box will appear on your phone titled “Undo Trash.”
- Tap “Undo” at the bottom right.
The deleted email will appear in your inbox. Meanwhile, you can only retrieve your deleted email on your iPhone if deleting or archiving the email was the last action you took on your phone.
However, if you have taken another action after the email was deleted or archived you need to try the techniques below for retrieving emails that are not recently deleted on your iPhone.
- Open the “Mailbox” app on your iPhone.
- Tap “Mailbox” at the top left.
- Click on “Trash” from the menu.
- Locate and open the “deleted email” you want to “retrieve.”
- Click on the “Arrow” at the bottom right.
- Select “Move Message” from the popup.
- Select “Inbox” to move the message from the trash box to your inbox.
How to Retrieve Deleted Archived Emails on iPhone
This is going to help you to retrieve your deleted emails on your iPhone through the archive.
- Go to your “iPhone” settings.
- Scroll down and click on “Mail.”
- Click on “Accounts” under “Allow mail to access.”
- Tap “Gmail, Contacts, Calendars” under “Accounts.”
- Turn on “Mail” if it’s disabled.
- Go to your “iPhone” app menu.
- Click on “Mail” to open it.
- Tap “Mailbox” at the top right.
- Choose the account where you want to retrieve deleted emails if multiple accounts are linked to your iPhone.
- Select “All Mail” from the “Mailboxes” menu.
- Check out the deleted email you are planning to retrieve.
- Once you have seen the email click on the arrow in the navigation.
- Select “Move Message” from the popup.
- Choose the folder where you want to move the message to.
The chosen email will moved from the archive folder to the selected folder. So, with this, you can access all deleted emails on your iPhone and retrieve them all if you have not deleted them all.
How to Retrieve Deleted Yahoo Emails on iPhone
Alternatively, you can retrieve deleted Yahoo, Gmail and AOL emails on your iPhone via the official website if the feature to retrieve deleted emails from the archive or trash is not available on the iPhone Mail app.
Most times when you delete an email it stays for 30 days in the trash box and archived email can remain forever if not deleted. So, when you are unable to retrieve your deleted emails on your iPhone don’t hesitate to visit the Email provider’s website and sign into your account.
When you sign into the account you will have access to the trash and archive box to find and retrieve the email you deleted by mistake.