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How to avoid deleting messages when swiping your iPad too briskly

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Reader Nancy Hilton has an iOS issue that she’d like me to take a swipe at. She writes:</p>

I upgraded  my iPad mini to iOS 8, and suddenly an accidental left swipe mysteriously wipes out an email message. A gentle left-swipe displays More, Flag, and Trash options, but a quicker swipe produces a brief narrow red line, and poof! the message is gone into cyberspace. Can you help?

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I can. As you’ve rightly deduced, this is a behavior introduced with iOS 8, and it works across iPads, iPhones, and iPod touches. It was a notion Apple introduced with the idea that it’s an easy way to quickly delete messages. The problem is that if you’re a little too frisky in your swiping you can accidentally delete messages.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2841733/how-to-avoid-deleting-messages-when-swiping-your-ipad-too-briskly.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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