I have GMail setup on my iPhone with push, as an exchange account. It's awesome. However, when I select to delete an email (as I often do – I get rather more rubbish than I'd like) it archives the email – and I want to delete it properly from my phone.
This is the opposite of a lot of questions, and I'm aware that if it's setup as a gmail account I can change this setting, but seemingly not if it's setup as an Exchange account.
Best Answer
You need to enable the "Delete Email As Trash" setting through Google Sync. Google added this feature in 2012:
Now when you delete an email on your iOS device, it will be sent to the "Trash" folder instead of the "All Mail" folder in Gmail.
Note: This feature is only relevant if you’ve setup your Gmail account in iOS mail as a Microsoft Exchange account.