Scroll down and tap on “Delete Account” to remove the email address and all of its stored files from the iPhone / iPad.Tap on the email account in question to delete and clear attachment storage for.Open the “Settings” app and go to “Mail, Contacts, Calendars”.When you’re ready to go, just do the following: You’ll probably want to back up your device beforehand just to be sure you can quickly recover in case you mess something up or accidentally delete something important. Regain Mail and Attachments Storage Space in iOS What you’re going to be doing is deleting the email account from the iOS device, rebooting, then re-adding the same email account back to iOS. This is very much a workaround until a better method is built into iOS directly. But that’s where the Settings panels functionality ends… despite showing the size of the Mail and Attachments stored on the iOS device, the settings panel is otherwise left without actions to delete or remove the cache.įor now, there are two possible solutions to wrangle and recover the Mail Attachment storage.īoth of which are imperfect either manually go through and delete emails that are heavy on attachments, which is obviously an enormous pain in the rear, or, the preferred trick that we’ll cover here, which is to remove and then re-add the entire email account, thereby cutting out all the past mail attachment files and caches that have become embedded into iOS. This is easily identified by going to the Settings app, to “General”, then to “Usage”, where you can select “Mail” and read the MB (or GB) alongside “Mail and Attachments” section. For most users this is no big deal and the convenience overrides any potential issues, but some users who send and receive a lot of attachments or tons of email may find during general maintenance that their Mail storage space is taking up huge amounts of space on an iOS device.
The Mail app on our iPhones and iPads downloads and stores emails and attachments into iOS, which makes for easy searching and retrieval of past emails.
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