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How to Turn Off Apple Mail Categories
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Categories work great if you train it and then your primary category only has the email that you need to address immediately. I see post down grading it before even trying it. It better then the category in Spark email and google mail.
Works for me. I find it very useful. To train it.
How to Recategorize a Sender:
How to Recategorize a Sender:
- Open the Mail app: on your iPhone.
- Tap a message: from the sender you want to recategorize.
- For Primary messages: Tap the left-pointing blue arrow at the bottom of the screen, then tap "Categorize Sender".
- For messages in other categories:Tap the three-dot icon (•••) at the top right of the screen, then tap "Categorize Sender".
- Choose the desired category: (Primary, Transactions, Updates, or Promotions).
- All future emails: from that sender will now be automatically categorized in the chosen category.
Apple Mail is so dumb. If you sent up filters and mailboxes on your Mac, they do not appear on your iPhone. All you get are some default folders. It's like using 2 completely different mail apps. The robust and rule based MacOS version, and the completely different and only somewhat usable iPhone version.
I want the exact same functionality on every device. I want to be able to create rules, folders, and smart mailboxes on any device and have them propagate to all my other devices.
I want the exact same functionality on every device. I want to be able to create rules, folders, and smart mailboxes on any device and have them propagate to all my other devices.
Agreed. Why is there no option to get rid of the icons? Takes up space, makes the inbox look more cluttered, and leaves less room for the first two lines of the email. It needs an option to turn the icons off.
Apple used to excel at integration, at creating something you didn't know you needed. Now, it's just clunky, poorly thought out ideas. Yikes.
On iOS, you're immediately asked to confirm whether you want to use Categoriztion the first time you launch Mail. So "how to turn off Apple Mail Categorization" is just literally tapping a single button:
Here is yet another Apple Intelligence feature we've added that you will promptly turn off. The apple has fallen very far from the tree.
You might be the only one, or one of the only few, lol. Glad you enjoy it!
It sucks for me, emails ending up in incorrect categories, plenty of emails and ended up taking me more time to tap around to read emails so I ended up disabling it pretty quickly.
On iOS go to Settings>Apps>Mail and disable ‘Show contact photos’.
The feature has a smart design.
No matter which category you're viewing, a swipe-left on the category bar instantly takes you to "All Mail". Works on macOS and iOS equally.
Genius.
No matter which category you're viewing, a swipe-left on the category bar instantly takes you to "All Mail". Works on macOS and iOS equally.
Genius.
Swipe Left on Category bar, and "All Mail" instantly appears. No need to check each category individually.
Works on macOS and iOS.
It's really a shame that we all spend so much time after every iOS update, disabling the junk that Apple puts in. Why can't they just leave well enough alone.
Settings -> Apps -> Mail -> Show Contact Photos (turn off)
I approach most new features with an open mind and give them a fair shot before writing them off. I don't want to turn into an old man that refuses to adapt, but this implementation is just confusing and messy. The fact that the new mail indicators for each category header are grey dots and not red makes it so hard to find when there are unread emails in each area.
This is not present on any of my devices after turning off the categories (on iOS or Mac).
this write-up was great.
I switched to Categories because I thought it would be a good idea. but it wasn't so great for me (or my wife). we were constantly in another category, it didnt show the correct notification badge. we usually would keep switching to ALL MAIL view.
I checked Settings but couldn't find a way to switch it back. this article was the needed push to get us back to List View.
I switched to Categories because I thought it would be a good idea. but it wasn't so great for me (or my wife). we were constantly in another category, it didnt show the correct notification badge. we usually would keep switching to ALL MAIL view.
I checked Settings but couldn't find a way to switch it back. this article was the needed push to get us back to List View.
How does the Apple Mail categorization compare to the categorization of the Spark mail program?
Can I replace Spark with Apple Mail?
I only takes important one mis-categorized mail that you miss for the feature to be personal disaster.