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How to Turn Off Apple Mail Categories
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To be fair - it's not just Apple: Most new 'features' that technology companies come up with these days, I'd rather turn off...
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Well for starters, I don’t really talk to android users. And for those I do I don’t particularly care about making their experience better. SMS works fine.
Which leads me to the main reason. Rcs is largely and highly unreliable.
I initially thought it was a carrier thing but since iOS 18 I’ve literally used five different carriers so I know it’s an rcs thing.
For instance, I’m now on metro with my iPhone 16 pro max and rcs is “waiting for activation”. Not sure why. Been like that for the last week.
Before that I was on AT&T, and it worked when it felt like it. It would send as SMS first then randomly switch to rcs.
Even worse, it also somehow screws with my iMessage. For iPhone to iPhone, sometimes it won’t default to iMessage and it will send as rcs and then randomly switch back to iMessage only to randomly switch back to rcs.
It’s overhyped and unreliable. Never mind the fact that it’s also not even widely available on many carriers still.
Even android users have turned it off on their phones lol.
I honestly haven’t used windows and Microsoft products in years. Ever since Microsoft killed windows phone my interest in Microsoft waned. I was a diehard avid windows/windows phone and Microsoft fan girl (I still say windows 8 was the best windows)
I have a surface pro but I have been largely all in on Apple so I rarely dabble with Microsoft.
That being said, I may have to check out the outlook app.
Does it sync with iCloud mail addresses?
Lost an email for an extended period of time due to it being misfiled under "Promotions" and not being aware of it lurking in there. After that this was a dead feature for me.
Because it’s still better than android and google ecosystem.
This has the same problems that AppLibrary has. The categories are arbitrary and don’t line up with what users need or want. We can’t change or set our own categories. And it wouldn’t matter because where things get filed is apperently random and has nothing to do with what the categories are anyway.
I gave this a shot, but saw it was a half-assed implementation that was useless.
I gave this a shot, but saw it was a half-assed implementation that was useless.
You can’t say that and mention Outlook at the same time.
I’m running windows 11 LTSC on my other computer and that’s fine. But outlook hell no.
where is the "all mail" on the iPad? iPhone has it, Mac has it, iPad seems not to have it.
I'm talking about when using categories sliding to the right.
I'm talking about when using categories sliding to the right.
That is great, considering how high that bar is. Any news on when this wonderfull software will be published?
But, when RCS does eventually improve (so far I don’t have issues) wouldn’t it make your experience better? Seems odd to willingly express wanting an overall degraded messaging apparatus.
Gmail definitely does categories way better as its not only accurate but its UI works better when it comes to switching categories or inboxes - Mail's poor design requires scrolling back to the top to change categories, i should be able to change categories just by clicking on the top bar to reveal a dropdown at a minimum.
Mail is further limited by customizing categories - if you don't like how it's automatically categorizing, it only gives the option to manually categorize everything from the sender to one of the categories instead of using machine learning to say this piece of mail is improperly categorized. You're really better off using your own filter rules.
The Mail junk filter has never been remotely accurate or consistent so don’t know why they think they can categorize the rest of your mail properly.
But my experience is not degraded lol.
Rcs purists really do overhype it lol.
I’ve had no issue messaging with sms to android users.
Thankfully most of my friends, I manage to convert to Apple so I largely talk to 99 percent Apple users.
If and when Rcs does improve, I may consider using it but for now I have it completely off and have told my friends to turn it off
I mean I believe it as fact lol but you can take it as my opinion.
They did ask why we are still with Apple.
There’s no other option besides android and that’s an inferior experience and ecosystem.
I’d go back to my windows phone 7(aka 2011 with no multi tasking lol) before I ever to back to android 🤣
iOS and iPadOS 18.4 seems to have broken the sounds and haptics attached to my mail notifications in the mail app (for both my iCloud and exchange accounts). The notifications still push and the screen turns on, but I receive no sound alerts. Anyone else encounter this issue after updating?