Apple’s revamped Mail app in iOS 18.2 offers a fresh look and feel. While the mailbox screen remains familiar, opening an inbox reveals significant visual and functional updates.
Ryan Christoffel for 9to5Mac:
Aesthetically, Apple is now emphasizing contact photos for senders as part of your inbox. Where you used to just see a bunch of text, now there’s color and imagery to go with it. Basically, emails in your inbox look a lot like threads in the Messages app, with a contact photo on the left.
More significant than the addition of contact photos, iOS 18.2 also brings a fundamental change to how your inbox works.
Apple Mail now automatically divides your inbox into four categories [Primary, Transactions, Updates, and Promotions]…I’ve really enjoyed using the new Mail app in the iOS 18.2 beta, but I’m also glad Apple has provided tools to disable many of the changes if they don’t quite work for you. Now that Mail has been redesigned for iPhone, though, I’m ready to see these changes come to the iPad and Mac as well.
MacDailyNews Take: It looks better and will likely work better for the vast majority of users, as well.
Interns: Do you duty. Prost, everyone! 🍻🍻🍻
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bloatware. they have been AppleSoft. Simplicity and usability have gone out the window since Tim Tok over. it used to be ‘my’ Mac totally customizable. Now it’s become Microsoft crap. Killing me Apple
I finally use the iPhone mail correctly.
Everything goes into the “archive”. New messages arrive into inbox, and after reading, a swipe-right sends it to the archive.
The inbox only contains a few recent messages that need a reply.
Old school luddite here…after reading, I send to trash. Why archive?
Mail has been the biggest feces Apple ever created. You cannot stop spammers and every manner of turds from piling it in to your mailbox, and if you say you can you are a lying ass dog.
I was hoping that spam, or even follow up gazillion emails from purchasers could be effectively dealt with. Anyone using a decent mail client that can take care of spam and junk mail? Apple Mail doesn’t cut it at all.
The biggest update I think Apple need to include in ALL versions of its’ Mail app is native support for HTML Email Signatures.
At present I use a third party app to design a signature on my Mac, that then gets imported.
But this doesn’t work for my iPhone nor iPad 🙁
Custom Icons and Images that are part of the signature could potentially be hosted in a users iCloud account