Apple - Get Swipe Left in Mail To Show 'Delete' Instead of 'Archive'

  1. Go to SettingsMail, Contacts, Calendars.

  2. Select the Gmail account in question.

  3. Select AccountAdvanced.

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

    The messages will then be deleted instead of archived.

Apple KB Article: Archive your Gmail messages


While searching for a solution I accidentally noticed that if you set the default "Swipe Right" to "Archive" it will show this message below: "Accounts that include Archive as a default action for swiping left will offer Trash for swiping right".

I checked and now I get the Trash option as well! (even though the message doesn't make sense, we are setting the Swipe Right and not the Swipe Left as Archive).