iPad mini Feel dumb. How do I make a new email

[strider42]

This sounds so stupid, bug for the life of me I can't find an can to create a new, blank email on my ipad mini retina with ios7. Googling hasn't helped me either. Everything else works fine. How do I do this simple task? Thanks.

 

[Rodster]

Did you successfully create an email account from the Mail app client?

 

[strider42]

Did you successfully create an email account from the Mail app client?

yup. i can receive and reply to email just fine. Just where is the icon for creating a new message?

 

[carjakester]

top right. its a square with a pen or pencil icon

 

[Badrottie]

that is easy. You can find a square with pen icon on the top right corner.

 

[strider42]

that is easy. You can find a square with pen icon on the top right corner.

Thank you. I didn't see it because I thought those icons were all for the active message. Thank you. That was stupidly easy

 

[kathyricks]

That was stupidly easy

Don't feel bad...email is tough to learn on an iPad because it's so vastly different than using email in OSX with its cursor and mouse/trackpad.

 

[Badrottie]

Thank you. I didn't see it because I thought those icons were all for the active message. Thank you. That was stupidly easy

you are welcome. we all still learning whenever new iOS comes out every year.

 

[iMaven]

If you want more information about using your iPad...

Open Safari
Tap on Bookmarks
Select iPad User Guide

 

[saberahul]

Don't feel bad...email is tough to learn on an iPad because it's so vastly different than using email in OSX with its cursor and mouse/trackpad.

If one really thinks about it (I am very philosophical), he/she would realize that using a cursor and a mouse/trackpad is much more complicated than just using a touch screen. We grew up learning how to operate computers through keys and clicks and now are beginning to go back to the elementary stages, which is so much easier as it is more natural. No wonder our grandparents/parents/people who do not know how to use computers generally pick up an iPad so much quicker than a, say, laptop.

 

[kathyricks]

We grew up learning how to operate computers through keys and clicks and now are beginning to go back to the elementary stages, which is so much easier as it is more natural.

I think operating a computer through touch alone as on the iPad is more complicated, slower and unintuitive. Touch should compliment a pointing and clicking device, (e.g. a trackpad that supports gestures) not replace it.

 

[Abazigal]

Alternatively, use Siri to compose a new email? 😛