It is essential to regularly clean your iCloud mailbox in order to gain productivity and increase your data’s security. Moreover, you also increase the management of your emails and optimize the performance of your device. Use Cleanfox so that you won’t have to individually delete your emails. This software is free and easy to use. Additionally, you can access it from any device.
Properly configure your iCloud mailbox
It is possible to modify the settings of your iCloud mailbox in order to access the totality of your emails. Configuring your iCloud mailbox makes cleaning it easier. By synchronizing the messages on every device, it becomes easier to sort and manage them. After modifying the settings of your iCloud account, an automatic update is installed on all the devices used to consult your mailbox.
Furthermore, this allows you to filter the emails, contacts and identify uninteresting newsletters and spam. Therefore, we can blacklist a sender and stop receiving messages from said individual.
Manually delete your emails
In order to manually delete emails on iCloud, you simply need to follow these steps:
- Select one or more messages to delete
- Click on the “Delete selected messages” button in the lateral bar
- If this button does not appear, click on the action contextual menu in the lateral bar
- Select preferences
- In the General window, untick the option Display the icon Archived in the toolbar
- Press the delete key or back
- Slide the messages towards the trash of the sidebar
Instead of storing deleted messages in your trash, you can configure your mailbox to permanently delete messages from your mailbox.
- Click on the contextual actions menu in the sidebar
- Select preferences
- In the general pane, select “Put the deleted messages in the trash”
- Choose a folder in the menu
- Click on finish
Therefore, deleted messages will not automatically be moved in the trash and you will be able to retrieve them after 30 days which is the storage delay for the trash.
Clean your mailbox with Cleanfox
By regularly cleaning your iCloud mailbox, you can gain in productivity and efficiency. This also helps you free up storage space which is essential to profit from the free space on Apple. Indeed, A premium offer is available when reaching the space limit.
Cleanfox is a free software specifically built to delete the undesirable emails and unsubscribe from uninteresting newsletters. In order to use it, you simply need to link it with your mailbox. The tool then proceeds to a quick scan of messages before sorting them by sender. Afterwards, Cleanfox gives you the possibility to delete the emails, unsubscribe to stop receiving messages or keep the emails.
Finally, you can always retrieve an email from the trash if you ever delete one by mistake; they are stored for 30 days before being permanently deleted.