How do I swipe mail to Trash?

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New iPhone 6s+ reinstalled mail. Had set up on previous phone to swipe to trash. Please walk me through this- no trash option for swiping left or right appears nowadays

 

[Peligro911]

New iPhone 6s+ reinstalled mail. Had set up on previous phone to swipe to trash. Please walk me through this- no trash option for swiping left or right appears nowadays

Try this

Go to Settings → Mail, Contacts, Calendars.

Select the account in question.

Select Account → Advanced.

In the second section called "Move Discarded messages into" change Archive Mailbox to Deleted Mailbox.

The messages will then be deleted instead of archived.