Become a Mail PRO with this iPhone tutorial!

The Mail app on your iPhone is probably one of the less exciting apps you’ve got installed, but it’s actually very good, and much improved with some additions that came along in iOS16. I’ve never actually made a complete tutorial video for Mail for iPhone, so today I thought I’d change that. Stick with me, as I walk you step by step, in how to use and get the most out of Mail for iPhone. Just so you know, I’m running iOS16.2 as I make this video, do ensure that you’re running that version or newer, so you can do everything we discuss here.

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Chapters;
0:00 - Intro
0:31 - Adding Accounts
3:50 - Navigation
5:27 - Drafting an Email
11:13 - Sending an Email
13:02 - Receiving and Managing Email
15:20 - Mail Search
15:51 - Mail Settings
17:05 - End

[tonyb]

I used Spark Mail for years, mainly because it was easy, and worked on android as well. When I switched back to iPhone, I kept it for a while, but the new pricing makes it unreasonable, so I looked for an alternative. The updates to the stock mail app has gotten really good compared to what I remember.

The biggest reason why I chose to use the default mail app, is that it’s support of focus modes. I can have my work focus only show my work email accounts, and personal, etc.

[paganguy]

Great, informative video as usual! I've used iPhone since 3GS, & I still learn from your vids. I used to shy away from the native apps, but I'm finding staying within the native apps can simplify life. Apple is slowly, but surely, bringing their native apps in line with Gmail & other services. My biggest complain with this app is, if I need an email sent to me through Gmail very quickly, I have to use Gmail app to retrieve it. Delivery via the native app is definitely slower than using the Gmail app itself.

[ritwiksahoo]

I used the Gmail app previously and also tried the Spark app; but for last few months have stuck with the stock mail app. I use mail for basic purposes and i think the stock mail is enough for that with minimalistic design and enough customisation. Great video as always :)

[hariharan]

Good details about mail app. I have been struggling with all these days. Thank you.

[geerenae]

Enjoyed the video. I usually use GMail for my go to email (composing/rcvng) but the additional items I learned today...maybe I will start using the stock email system. Thanks again ~ I enjoy the videos.

[icoco_de]

Thanks for the video, very helpful, as always. However, there is this one thing I never found out, and I am guessing a lot of users experience the same issue: When composing an email on iPhone, I sometimes copy/paste some text portions from other sources. Oftentimes, after inserting such a text portion, it differs from the rest of the text in style or size. Even though Im using Apple Mail for decades now, I never found a solution to this behavior. Do you have an idea how to format or adjust all text to be of similar size and type in such a case?

[ralphmilleriii]

Great video. Here’s another tip…

If you accidentally mishandle an email, you can do a 3-finger tap and hold(for about a sec) above the search bar, and an UNDO box will appear at the top of the screen.

**Note*** You can also do the 3-finger tap anywhere in the inbox but it can be tricky because it’s common to accidentally open or select an email if you don’t tap all 3 fingers simultaneously. To avoid this from happening, after 3-tapping and holding for a quick second, short swipe down (or up) to deselect any highlighted email and lift up.

[jeremyduncan]

Thank you for all your excellent videos that I follow with great interest and pleasure! Please do keep up your great work! One thing regarding the iOS (and iPadOS) Mail app that I really miss: a possibility to have an All Junk folder, just like we have the All Inboxes, All Sent and All Trash. That is really something useful for us using more accounts at the same time. Or a possibility to define a Smart Folder. Strangely enough, MacOS version of the Mail app has it, but not the mobile OSs.

[jaejae]

Great video as always.

Couple of other things I find handy, when composing an email you can swipe down and it sits at the bottom of the mail app, then you can read through emails to find content without having to save the email you are composing to drafts.

Also when using the read / unread filter on a mailbox, you can click in the middle of the bottom bar and select further filter options.

[ronalde]

Excellent in-depth look at the Mail app. I really like it. The one thing that keeps me from using it is the fact that I cannot return to the inbox after deleting a message. It keeps wanting to go to the next message.

[victorcarmelo]

Thanks great video and useful despite using Mail for many year. One aspect of this video I would like is Archiving emails in senders boxes, is this possible? I noticed in VIP they are still random and not grouped. Thanks agin much appreciated.

[maikaimakena]

Plus Mail & Reminders App is the perfect 👍 combo 🤙❤️

[kgthegent]

I actually use an app called Spark for my email. It has iPhone, iPad, and Mac versions. I like the inbox look and feel and the customization.

[ΑλέξανδροςΘεολόγου]

Very useful video. Can u also cover the Mail App for a Mavbook Pro?

[kewpiefan]

It would have been nice, since this is for newbies, if you had shown how to set up and use mailing lists. But it’s still an excellent tutorial! Thx!

[FrankNicholasDaleCMIRCSecretar]

A very good program, I use apple mail, I have one problem with Gmail in syncing, between Ipad and iPhone. I enjoy the app and prefer over AOL and Goal.,

[SariLovesToDance]

Great Video. Learned what i needed. Unable to drag photo to email yet. Subscribed thank you.

[deetrvllife]

Thank you! I learned some useful editing tips from this!

[kranthi]

10:38 I see the All Drafts and All Sent filter boxes on my phone, and I use them very often. May be you just didn’t scroll down on the edit page. Also, using Add Mailbox… on this page, you can add a specific folder, including Drafts, from any of your mail accounts.

[gijoyjoy]

I was hoping you would address how to delete large quantities of emails at once. When I do a search for a title or sender, I only get the option to delete two pages of about 10-12 emails. I want to delete the hundreds of advertising emails that I m not going to read. I’d love to do that from my phone and not open my computer.