How to Use the Mail App on Apple Watch

[lk400]

If articles like this allow forums like this to exist seems ironic to use the very forums to complain about that and to do so pointlessly. And what does any of this have to do with freedom of speech?

The freedom to say "I think you are writing bad articles solely to make money and I wish you'd stop".

If people write such things and get chastised for speaking up, to me, that's attempting to silence their valid complaints. Complaints which could make this forum better for all of us.

 

[joshwenke]

It is amazingly easy to simply not read an article that does not interest you, rather than complain how it does not fit your concept of what should appear on the site.

As someone who enjoys reading content that falls beyond a narrow interpretation of the NAME of this site, I felt compelled to take a moment to encourage the editors to keep these articles coming. Sometimes it's handy to be reminded of a piece of information on using an Apple device, even if it is documented elsewhere.

We, as the readers and the source of income for the MacRumors staff, have a right to say what interests us in articles and what is just click bait. Right now, there have been too many articles like this posted. I won't mind if they make a "Tutorials" link in their menu bar, or remove them altogether, but I believe I am speaking for the entire community when we ask them to stop posting these things on the landing page of MacRumors.com.

 

[C DM]

The freedom to say "I think you are writing bad articles solely to make money and I wish you'd stop".

If people write such things and get chastised for speaking up, to me, that's attempting to silence their valid complaints. Complaints which could make this forum better for all of us.

Complaints have a place, making them in the threads isn't the right place.

 

[C DM]

We, as the readers and the source of income for the MacRumors staff, have a right to say what interests us in articles and what is just click bait. Right now, there have been too many articles like this posted. I won't mind if they make a "Tutorials" link in their menu bar, or remove them altogether, but I believe I am speaking for the entire community when we ask them to stop posting these things on the landing page of MacRumors.com.

Then say that in the right place. Why say that in the comments section of an article where other readers are reading and have nothing whatsoever to do with running the site or anything of the sort?

 

[I7guy]

We, as the readers and the source of income for the MacRumors staff, have a right to say what interests us in articles and what is just click bait. Right now, there have been too many articles like this posted. I won't mind if they make a "Tutorials" link in their menu bar, or remove them altogether, but I believe I am speaking for the entire community when we ask them to stop posting these things on the landing page of MacRumors.com.

FWIW, you don't speak for me. The Site And Forum board entertains these types of issues.

 

[rodpascoe]

Then say that in the right place. Why say that in the comments section of an article where other readers are reading and have nothing whatsoever to do with running the site or anything of the sort?

Arn and the other owners/admins of MacRumors often reply to comments in posts so you're not quite correct there...

 

[C DM]

Arn and the other owners/admins of MacRumors often reply to comments in posts so you're not quite correct there...

In some threads occasionally, but it's petty much the opposite of often for threads outside the feedback forum (which exists for those exact reasons).

 

[2457282]

It's a funny thing. I have had my watch now for a couple of weeks and it became clear that I needed to turn off email notifications. Every time I received an email, my wrist would get the vibration and I would glance down. Two things became apparent -- I was getting too many emails and my looking at my wrist constantly was sending the wrong message to the people I was with. I finally turned off the notification for emails. I still allow text and phone since those tend to be more important and things I do want to glance down for.

 

[C DM]

It's a funny thing. I have had my watch now for a couple of weeks and it became clear that I needed to turn off email notifications. Every time I received an email, my wrist would get the vibration and I would glance down. Two things became apparent -- I was getting too many emails and my looking at my wrist constantly was sending the wrong message to the people I was with. I finally turned off the notification for emails. I still allow text and phone since those tend to be more important and things I do want to glance down for.

I've done that in the phone long ago, and only use VIPs for notifications.

 

[Tycho24]

The Spark mail app is great on Apple Watch.

 

[4jasontv]

What is wrong with you people? Same people saying the same nonsense with every how to article MR posts. The articles are fine. What's wrong with MR actually providing real information instead of the "rumors" you people seem to crave and thrive on? If you don't want to read these, then don't read them and don't post your hatred. It's old and boring and just plain stupid of you to do so.

Why don't you children get together and form a little club with a little clubhouse, have some milk and cookies, and blab away about nonsense all day long.

You're sassy. I like that.

Of course if you access the site from iOS, you are forced to see these articles, so there is that.

Also, there is the whole only wanting to see Mac rumors that makes sense of a site called MacRumors.

I think the cross promotion between their other sites suggests they are more than capable of filtering this type of information.

 

[MH01]

Sorry you don't understand the purpose of the apple watch.

I think the comment more refers to the implementation of email on the apple
Watch . Unless you receive very short emails, you going to have to open them on your phone anyway.

 

[MH01]

So you think people should just keep quiet about things they don't like, or don't approve of?

These articles are clearly pushing the line on posting interesting useful articles vs a shallow quest for clicks. The forums are here to discuss the article. Someone expressing their view that they think these articles have gone too far is just as valid as your post saying you don't.

To argue that people shouldn't post against such articles is to say critics should be silent. It's an argument against free speech.

You cynic you ! It's not like each click loads ads that generate revenue!!

I demand an article on how to generate ads revenue for a blog site!!!

 

[bbeagle]

Sorry you don't understand the purpose of the apple watch.

I think people use the watch differently.

I don't use email on my watch. I use it for texts, tweets, sports and news updates. Things that are 'now' and I want to know immediately.

Emails? They aren't 'immediate' to me. I'll check my emails once an hour at work (at my computer), but when I'm done with work, I don't need to know every email. I don't want my watch telling me. I'll check them on my phone like once a day.

So, the email app on the watch is completely irrelevant to me, and I don't use it.

 

[friedmud]

Just to counterbalance a bit...

I DO use Mail on my watch. I use it mainly for clearing semi-spam and quick "update" type emails I get where most of the information is in the title anyway. I can do this while I'm waiting in line at Chipotle... or on a subway platform... or waiting on my dog to do his business. It just helps to keep down some of the clutter so when I get back to a real computer my inbox is already down to stuff I really need to deal with.

As for the article... I skimmed it to look for tricks or information I may have missed about the Mail app. I didn't see any... but I'm sure there are others on this site that found it helpful...

 

[shandyman]

We, as the readers and the source of income for the MacRumors staff, have a right to say what interests us in articles and what is just click bait. Right now, there have been too many articles like this posted. I won't mind if they make a "Tutorials" link in their menu bar, or remove them altogether, but I believe I am speaking for the entire community when we ask them to stop posting these things on the landing page of MacRumors.com.

These 'Tutorials' are pointless anyway, since there's a much better guide on Apple's User Guide. These are just cluttering up the news thread, making the site a mess to navigate. It's starting to have me look else where for my Apple related news.

I think the comment more refers to the implementation of email on the apple
Watch . Unless you receive very short emails, you going to have to open them on your phone anyway.

I use the watch to pick and choose what emails I need to reply to straight away, which can wait until later and delete the unwanted ones. Means I take my phone out much less than I used to.

 

[casperes1996]

Wait, wait, wait... The Mail app works? I'm shocked.

(Just a joke. Never had trouble with OS X Mail. Well, no, I have, but not the issues other talk about.)

Oh, and also, continuing on with most people's rant on the click-baiting how to articles.
My problem with them is that they clutter up the website, so that it's harder to find the content you want to see. I don't mind them, but if they had a separate section, it'd be much better. I like reading every article posted, except for these "how-to", so just moving them away, would make me able to find other articles easier, and by extension, perhaps read more, since I wouldn't miss as many. Win-win.
I like that there are more and more opinion based material on the site though, rather than only reporting on news and rumours. But perhaps not only reviewing cases would be a good next step... Think pieces and such would be lovely as well.

 

[skywalkerr69]

I have notifications off on my watch for all accounts yet i am still getting mail sent to my watch. I don't want to see mail on my watch.

 

[BillyTrimble]

I don't actually have a problem with articles like these, but your comment is hypocritical. You tell us that we can choose not to read articles that don't interest us instead of posting comments, but you couldn't manage to follow your own advice and skip our "boring" comments. I've only counted one hateful post here so far, most seem to be humorous.

They aren't "boring". They are repetitive and absurd. But that aside, please tell me how to skip them without reading them. If only there was an ignore feature to the forum. That would solve the problem for me.

 

[C DM]

They aren't "boring". They are repetitive and absurd. But that aside, please tell me how to skip them without reading them. If only there was an ignore feature to the forum. That would solve the problem for me.

You scroll past the articles and don't click/tap on them?

 

[AngerDanger]

They aren't "boring". They are repetitive and absurd. But that aside, please tell me how to skip them without reading them. If only there was an ignore feature to the forum. That would solve the problem for me.

It's old and boring and just plain stupid of you to do so.

You skip them the same way you expect others to skip articles they won't like; read as much as necessary then skip once you can tell it's repetitive, absurd, boring, etc. You can disregard comments altogether if you find them too caustic. As for an ignore feature, there is one.