Owners of iPhones running on OS 3.0 are discovering today that there's no way to completely delete e-mails from their phones due to a glitch in a new search feature.

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) last month released version 3.0 of the iPhone's software, including the new Spotlight search feature that enables users to quickly to find apps, notes, e-mails, calendar events, contacts, music and other media files.

According to reports, the Mail app in iPhone and iPod Touch devices doesn't actually delete e-mail entirely because they can be retrieved using Spotlight.

Apple had not returned calls for comment by press time.

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