Mark iPhone as Read?

I’ve always liked that little red bubble that appears on top of the Mail icon, that tells me just how many messages I have waiting for me. It looks cool and it serves a purpose. I like it on both my mac and my iPhone.

Sometimes that number stacks up though. I don’t mind that so much on my mac. It’s pretty easy to read mail or at least mark it as read. But as the number on my iPhone rises from 20 to 30 to 50 to… damn! 100! I start to read through the messages, but if I’m not near WiFi, it won’t mark them as read until the email fully loads. That’s right, I’m being punished a second time for Spam HTML emails. I tap the next button over and over again, waiting for each email to load… This is awful.

So where is the Mark All As Read button on my iPhone? I’ve installed all the updates, and still, haven’t found a fix yet. Even when I sync my iPhone with my mac, I have the same mail accounts on both machines. I can read the message on my mac, but when I sync it with my iPhone, the read status isn’t synced up.

Hey Apple, can we address this issue with the next update? No one has time to tap the next button all day.