Deleting email account in iOS 8.1.1

with the new iOS 8.1.1 I cannot delete an email account from my 4s phone? When you are in setting and go into the email account there is no selection to delete the account. Why not? turning it off does not help when I need to redo the account. Please help so frustrated I am ready to cry. I hate the new updates and should have stayed with 7. I had no problems with 7. I just upgraded to 8.1.1 on Wednesday.

Hi Kmmoffitt,
Welcome to the Support Communities! I'm sorry to hear you are so frustrated with your email on the iPhone. What email account are you trying to delete? You should be able to delete the account just like you did in iOS 7.
In step 5 C below, make sure you scroll down to the bottom of the window to see the red "Delete Account" option.
Get help with Mail on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support
http://support.apple.com/en-us/ts3899
First, try these basic troubleshooting steps:
To make sure that you're connected to the Internet, open Safari and go to www.apple.com.
Log in to your email provider's website to make sure that the account is active and the password is correct.
Make sure your settings are correct using Mail Settings Lookup.
Restart your iOS device.
Delete the affected email account from your device.
Tap Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
Tap the affected email account.
Tap Delete Account.
Add your account again.
If you are still unable to delete your email account, one of our telephone technical support advisors may be able to assist you further.
iPhone - Contact Support - Apple Support
http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/contact/
I hope this information helps ....
- Judy

Similar Messages

Add deleted email account

how to add a deleted email account as have deleted my hotmail and want re add the account but not able to to do this can some help

Hi Aayush10,
If you are having issues adding your account to Mail on your iPhone, you may find the following articles helpful:
iOS: Adding an email account
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4810
iOS: Troubleshooting Mail
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3899
Regards,
- Brenden

Delete gmail account from iOS mail

gmail shows up as an inactive account in my ios mail settings. however, gmail still loads into my inbox. I want to eliminate gmail completely and only get icloud mail. I can't find a way to do it.

Since you are in the Mac OS 10.9 (Mavericks) forum but are asking about iOS (iPhone, iPad, etc), I'm not sure how to answer. So, here is how to do it in either:
In Mavericks (i.e. on a Mac):
Open "System Preferences" > "Internet Accounts"
Select your Google account in the left sidebar
Click the "-" icon at the bottom left to delete the account
In iOS (i.e. on an iPhone):
Touch "Settings"
Touch "Mail, Contacts, Calendars"
Touch your Gmail Account
At the bottom of the screen, touch "Delete Account"
That's it. If you delete accounts per the above instructions then there is simply no way for your Gmail to continue to come in to Apple Mail on Mavericks or iOS. The only way that could happen is if you have set up your Gmail account to forward mail to your iCloud account.
I hope this helps.

Delete contacts from a deleted email account??? (sounds confusing I know)

This will require an explanation before I can get to my question so here I go. I have several email accounts that sync to my phone. I have now deleted one of my email accounts. The problem is that when I compose an email from any of the remaining email accounts still on my phone and start to type the name of the contact that I want to send the email to contacts from the deleted email account are still being displayed. I need to be able to remove the contacts from the deleted email account from my phone. These are contacts that are not part of my phone contacts. They are contacts that I have replied to from the deleted email account. If I have not clearly described my issue please let me know. Thanks for any suggestions anyone may have.
-TAG

There is a system-wide email address cache. The only way to clear that cache is to perform a Restore via iTunes, and set your phone up as new (the list is backed up), meaning you'd need to reload all your content, redo your settings, etc.

Larry63 Jun 12, 2012 8:54 AM Subject: My IPad (1) keeps showing " user name or password incorrect" .I go to settings and all is okay ,I even deleted email account and reentered the info .How do I correct? iPad I have this question too (0) Categories: Mail

Larry63
Jun 12, 2012 8:54 AM
Subject:
My IPad (1) keeps showing " user name or password incorrect" .I go to settings and all is okay ,I even deleted email account and reentered the info .How do I correct?
iPad
I have this question too (0) Categories: Mail and Address book

Check the outgoing mail server setting. Make sure that your username and password are in there.
Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars>Your email account>Account>Outgoing mail server - tap the server name next to SMTP and check in the primary server and make sure your username and password are entered and correct - even if it says that the password is optional.

TS3276 My IPad (1) keeps showing " user name or password incorrect" .I go to settings and all is okay ,I even deleted email account and reentered the info .How do I correct?

Subject:
My IPad (1) keeps showing " user name or password incorrect" .I go to settings and all is okay ,I even deleted email account and reentered the info .How do I correct?

Maybe ask someone in the Apple iPad forum. This is the Snow Leopard forum.

How to delete EMAIL accounts

I am using Nokia E72. could you please suggest how to delete EMAIL accounts from Mobile

If the accounts have been set up with Nokia Messaging, then go to email.nokia.com, log in there with the details of the first account you set up, and then you can delete accounts you don't need.
Once done when the phone next syncs it will remove them from the phone.
If they are manually configured accounts, then on the phone, just go to Email->Settings-> scroll to the account -> Options -> Remove mailbox
E72-1 UK CV 052.005

HT5361 Just now accidentally deleted email account. No warning appears and was deleted. Mail was not back up ed. Does exist any way how for Undo of this delete operation (need to recover mails and contacts there)

I just accidnetally deleted email account and there wa sno warining so it went through and I lost all my emails. The email was not Back up. Is there any way how this account could be recovered?

If the account was an IMAP account your emails should re-appear if you recreate the email account. If the account was POP you hopefully have backup (TIme Machine?) you can restore the emails from.

How can one add contacts to different email accounts in iOS 8?

I'd like to know if I could add contacts to different email accounts in iOS 8 without having to change the default Contacts account and only using my iOS device!

You should be able to -
If you go into Settings - Mail / Contacts
You see Groups at the top left corner
Adding to those groups will keep your contacts separate - although you have to check the group name for the contact to appear in the list

How do I delete emails with the IOS 7.1.1 update in my 'Contacts'?

I recently updated my iPhone 4S to iOS 7.1.1 and now my emails are synced to my Contacts. I've already gone under Mail, Contacts, Calendars and turned off the contacts under the email account, but they're still showing up. What's going on?

swipe from left to right on the conversation
Delete a message. Touch and hold a message or attachment, tap More, select more if desired, then tap . To delete all text and attachments without deleting the conversation, tap Delete All.
Delete a conversation. In the Messages list, swipe the conversation from right to left, then tap Delete.
http://help.apple.com/ipad/7/

Cannot Delete ICloud Account on IoS 7 Upgraded IPhone 5

Hi
I have upgraded my Iphone 5 to IoS 7 and find that my ICloud email address is an old one which I changed from some time ago.
I have tried to delete this account but cannot do so as I being asked for the password for my old email address, which I can't remember.
The problem is that I cannot now set up my Find My IPhone on my newly upgraded phone.
Any ideas how I can delete the old address withouth the password?
My Apple ID and ICloud and Find My IPhone all work fine on my older 4S Iphone and my IPad 2. IoS 7 seems to be the problem. Or is it?
Simple and instant solutions welcome.

Doris Bonkers wrote:
Thanks, but I know my current password. The Apple ID website does not help, I'm afraid.
You are referecning the fact that when attempting to connect with your new apple id that you device is asking you for the password to an old Apple id. What you will need to do is to go to my apple id plug in the old apple id and ask it to reset the password to this apple id. Once the password has been reset to the old apple id, you then will be able to provide the password to the old apple id which will result in then being able to provide information required from the old Apple id to then enable your future process.
Good luck.

Forgot passcode to email profile, need it to delete email account.

I am trying to delete an email account on my iPhone 4 running iOS 7.1. I have an email profile which is preventing me from deleting the account. The profile asks for a 4 character passcode, which I do not recall. How do I reset this passcode, look it up, or work around it?

Why would you need a POP account?

How do you stop the phone from attempting to logon to a deleted email account?

When I first got my phone Skype video was not available so I opened a Yahoo email account so that I could use them for video calls. I got frustrated with the phone in that about half of the time that I turned it on it would tell me that it couldn't connect to the Yahoo servers due to an invalid password. Other times it would connect successfully.
I went to the default email app and found an option to delete the Yahoo account. I even went to the Yahoo web site and deleted the email account from there.
I thought that I had successfully deleted the account but now I get a message that the phone can't access the Yahoo servers every time I turn the phone on. Any ideas on how to stop the phone from attempting to access the Yahoo email servers?
I've checked and the email app doesn't list Yahoo and I can't find any reference to Yahoo in the apps section.
Thanks.

Nevermind, I fixed it (I think). I went into Settings | Accounts & Sync and found Yahoo at the bottom of the list (alphabetically). I selected it and it had an optiion to delete the account, which I did.

How to delete email account on iCloud

How do i delete a email account on icloud and put in a new one ?

If the ID is your the iPad is signed into is your old ID, and if your new ID was created by editing the details of this old ID (rather than being an entirely new ID), go to https://appleid.apple.com, click Manage my Apple ID and sign in with your current iCloud ID. Click edit next to the primary email account, change it back to your old email address and save the change. Then edit the name of the account to change it back to your old email address. You can now use your current password to turn off Find My iPad on your device, even though it prompts you for the password for your old account ID. Then save any photo stream photos that you wish to keep to your camera roll. Then go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account and choose Delete from My iDevice when prompted (your iCloud data will still be in iCloud). Next, go back to https://appleid.apple.com and change your primary email address and iCloud ID name back to the way it was. Now you can go to Settings>iCloud and sign in with your current iCloud ID and password.

Spotlight & Mail Search Not Working After Deleting email Account's '.OfflineCache' File. How Do I Get Back to Normal?

Running OSX 10.7.4 and Mail.5.2.
One of 3 email accounts was constantly trying, but unable to synch. The rotating splines were turning non-stop but not synching (other two email accounts worked just fine.) After doing some searching on the internet, I found several articles about this. Many included the symptom of the "Recovered Messages" constantly being recovered/generated. I had noticed that I would get some recovered messages on occaision, but had never noticed it to be problematic. These articles suggested that the ".OfflineCache" file for that email account had been corrupted or the root of my problem. So, I deleted the .OfflineCach file as per this article...
Fix OSX Mail Creating Multiple 'Recovered Message
Well that got my mail working again. However, I soon noticed that spotlight no longer works and when I try to search mail, it doesn't work. It will only return a complete email address/contact; it doesn't search the contents of the email.
I tried to get spotlight to re-index the hard drive. However, when I try to drag a folder or volume to it, I get the error:
Since spotlight and mail search have always worked flawlessly for 5 years, I'm confident this is related to having deleted " .OffflineCache" for that particular email account. However, it seems strange that mail search won't work for the other email accounts.
Any other tips for getting spotlight back online?
How about the .OfflineCache file. Will Mail restore it, replace it on it's own?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Also, looking back, not long before this problem started, I was trying to send a single email with numerous pictures ( around 50 or so.) I forgot to select "medium" for the picture size and it started trying to upload them at full size. I realized this after a minute or two and cancelled the upload, changed to 'medium' and sent the email with no problem. I point this out because the "Multiple Recovered Messages" error seems to be related to or being induced by having an excessively large file in the particular mail account's .Offline.Cache file.

Well, a couple days later and it seems that the .offlinecache has been rebuilt. Finder, Spotlight, & Mail search all seem to be working normally now!

Deleting email account in iOS 8.1.1

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for