If you have a tablet or touchscreen laptop running Windows 10, you can swipe your way to an empty inbox just as easily as you can on your smartphone’s email client. Here’s the way to set up swipe to delete within the Windows 10 Mail app and get eliminate unwanted messages with a single finger stroke.
In the Windows 10 Mail app, you can swipe left or right on an email message to perform a set action on it: flag the e-mail, mark it as read or unread, move the e-mail to a different folder, archive it, or delete it. Below, we’ll show you ways to configure the Mail app so once you swipe from right to left the e-mail will be deleted.
How to found out Swipe to Delete in the Mail App in Windows 10
1. Open the Settings menu in Mail. It’s that little gear icon in the bottom left side of the Mail app.
2. Click Options in the Settings menu. The swipe actions setting should already be toggled to “On,” but if it is not, change the setting so swipe actions are on.
3. Select “Delete” from the “Swipe left/hover” menu.” By default, this option is set to archive emails, and the swipe right setting is set to flag an email.4. Click anywhere outside of the options pane to shut it. Your settings are saved automatically.
4. Click anywhere outside of the Options pane to close it. Your settings are saved automatically.
You can follow these same steps to configure the settings for swiping from left to right (e.g., rather than setting a flag, you could swipe right to archive an email or mark it as read) or to set a different action for swiping from right to left.
