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iOS 16 Mail App: Improved Search, Undo Send, Scheduled Send, Reminders and More

I use the Mail app. It works for me. These are good additions to a product that Apple has sorely neglected.

I have long wanted to be able to create a reminder in the Reminder app, from Mail, to reply to an email. This new reminder feature is better than nothing.

I don’t know why they don’t have Smart Folders, at least in iPadOS mail. Those really help me keep my inbox clean.
 
qgadrian said:
What amazes me is that we need to wait a whole year to get those improvements on the mail app.

This could be just a simple update that could be out months ago, so we don’t need to wait until October to benefit from this kind of things.
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I suspect, if the EU gets it’s way, you may get your wish. As in the future, it will be less about iOS updates and more about individual app updates/improvements, so Apple could in theory adopt a more aggressive approach to keeping their apps top notch (or actually just getting some of them up to a top notch standard in the first place).
 
crazymac said:
Now if they could do something with Rules, what a complete mess!
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Exactly.

It's terrible how it handles spam mail. I've blocked countless email addresses, but those addresses still send me emails, which (to Mail's credit) end up in the spam folder. But what rules can do for me currently, is delete them if they're in the spam folder. Yay... like I couldn't do that on my own. What would be awesome is if a email from a blocked address wouldn't even get into my inbox and/or spam folder.

Something so simple, yet still not in the app. On Microsoft's Live, that function works exactly like you expect it to for years now.
 
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It would be cool if they added a feature to allow you set rules such as delete unread emails after x days have passed.
 
This is great and all but until they fix the way attachments are handled I can’t go back to using it. Talk about a mess. This goes for macOS too.
 
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But still push for Gmail (and even Workspace accounts) that exists for all other mail apps remains absent. I wish they’d just come out with an official statement on that.
 
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kylew1212 said:
It would be cool if notifications of unread emails were synced so that I don’t need to open mail on every device (after reading on a different device) to get rid of the badge/notification.
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What in the world are you talking about? Syncing unread emails is exactly how every email app on the planet, including Apple’s Mail app, has worked for 25+ years. Sounds like you are still using POP email instead of IMAP, which means that you’ve configured your emails to function as if it was still the 1980’s or early 1990’s.
 
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Can you now get the opportunity to have several signatures, ie. as many as you want. And of course signatures with photos.
 
JGIGS said:
Features that have been available for years on other apps. I guess better late then never but doubt I'll bother with it at this point.
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And those other apps can read all your messages and/or use that data to make money off of you. That’s literally how Gmail works; they even look inside archives for chrissakes. And any app that offers Send Later needs your credentials and total access to your server in order to schedule those sends; that cannot be done on-device because what if your device is turned off or sleeping? I don't trust anyone with that info 100%, but I trust Apple more than all of them put together.
 
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bluecoast said:
I can see send later & remind me later causing a world of confusion/annoyance on MacBooks not connected to power and PowerNap turned off. Or iPhones that have ran out of power etc.

We are all used to this sort of intelligence working at the cloud level now and not just at the device level.

Hopefully iOS 17 will see these functions implemented using iCloud+ somehow.
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What, wait? Aren't those "Send later" mails put on the iCloud server so that they will be independently sent, even if you turn off your device(s) after that? At least this is the way with other "Send later" solutions like Outlook, Mailbutler, Spark etc. if I'm right ...
 
Is this send later a mail server feature or is the client handling this sending at specific times -> needs to be powered on and online at given time?
 
lars666 said:
What, wait? Aren't those "Send later" mails put on the iCloud server so that they will be independently sent, even if you turn off your device(s) after that? At least this is the way with other "Send later" solutions like Outlook, Mailbutler, Spark etc. if I'm right ...
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I don’t know about Apple’s implementation here, but having it being handled on the device will make it work for any mail provider. I don’t think it’s a SMTP function for delayed send, so it would have to be implemented for each solution, have iCloud functionality to send it later (and save your SMTP/mail password off device) or have the phone handle it all.
 
Wow, Mailbutler just got well and truly Sherlocked. Well, I guess I can finally ditch it and its free version watermark. 🤷‍♂️🙃
 
Apple is just another company now.

How much $ can we suck out of you and if its buggy or behind, so what.
Hopefully the emoji train doesn't stop!
 
scotty321 said:
What in the world are you talking about? Syncing unread emails is exactly how every email app on the planet, including Apple’s Mail app, has worked for 25+ years. Sounds like you are still using POP email instead of IMAP, which means that you’ve configured your emails to function as if it was still the 1980’s or early 1990’s.
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Please learn to read. I never said syncing of emails, I said syncing of notifications of emails.

If you have multiple apple devices this becomes a problem. Mail has badges and can put email notifications in Notification Center. The emails sync fine, but the notifications of the mail so do not update until the app is opened. So if I read an email on my iPhone my iPad continues to show the badge that I have an unread email until I open the mail app on my iPad and it syncs with the IMAP server.
 
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On my private phone, the utterly useless search function was the main reason I switched to a 3rd party app. If they now finally included a view that shows an entire month in Calendar I'd probably switch back to the stock apps. My needs are very basic.

In my work phone I can't see my employer switching away from Outlook, no matter what Apple does.
 
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