I like the company logos on emails now but hate the categories. No real reason i just found the irritating and didn’t capture everything correctly
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iOS 18.2: Here's How Mail Categories Work
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Google seems to get the categories spot on, as well as the priority / important e-mails. Might just be time to switch the default e-mail client to Gmail so I can also benefit from real time push notification, but I really like staying with all first-party apps, ugh. I can’t even use my iCloud e-mail address because despite never giving it out to anyone it gets so much spam (100 a day) that Apple cannot seem to catch. With Gmail they are excellent at catching spam, I have only had one scam e-mail slip through in 15 years. Turned off all the crappy AI stuff in the Mail app.
Turned it off. It’s utter rubbish.
I called a person three times saying I didn’t receive the email before realizing this rubbish defaults to “primary” and the email was not being seen as a primary email. It was a quote, with an attachment.
They need a big reality check at Apple and until the stock goes up they won’t have one.
All the manpower wasted for this rubbish and then you tell Siri to turn off the bedroom fan in 20 minutes and it replies back that automations can be scheduled only at least one minute out. Pathetic.
I called a person three times saying I didn’t receive the email before realizing this rubbish defaults to “primary” and the email was not being seen as a primary email. It was a quote, with an attachment.
They need a big reality check at Apple and until the stock goes up they won’t have one.
All the manpower wasted for this rubbish and then you tell Siri to turn off the bedroom fan in 20 minutes and it replies back that automations can be scheduled only at least one minute out. Pathetic.
Google has real software engineers and it is an engineering driven company. Apple is all about marketing.
All the talent left soon after Job’s passing. People like Mansfield, Ive, Forstall, Serlet, all the great people of the past that were able to produce great products and great software.
The fact that they called what should have been called image studio, image playground, makes it all very clear. It’s all developed and written by kids, for kids.
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I hate the feature. Turned it off immediately. I’d rather have the long overdue feature that would show flagged emails organized by colors just like Mail app on Mac.
It appears that there is a different mail message "reader" for all categories EXCEPT "Primary".
In other words, there's not ellipsis at the top of a Primary email message.
This is frustrating, b/c one main way of cleaning up you inbox would be to re-cat some Primary msgs into categories like "Promotions".
And sadly, iPadOS 18.2 has got none of this.
And just as sad: there's STILL no way for users to get the FULL email address of the sender. The iPhone remains the BEST email destination for phishing and scams.
I didn't realize it was different for the Primary inbox. I've updated to clarify so it's not confusing.
This has been around for a long time. It’s better handled at the email server than on the client and that’s known as Server Side Filters. Gmail has it so you see the same view from every client.
It’s a necessity in the corporate world where I received up to 4000 emails per day. But when I stopped work, I reduced my gmail down to just 2 or 3 filters.
It’s a necessity in the corporate world where I received up to 4000 emails per day. But when I stopped work, I reduced my gmail down to just 2 or 3 filters.
Maybe it's a great feature. G Mail had it for years. Apple Mail had (or still have) a "smart" mailbox or something. Never used. I turned this "categorise" feature off. My take is that it hides emails (wanted and unwanted) in subfolders where I need to go dig into to go see if there is something I need to read. Inconvenient. I like all emails coming in in ONE mailbox and let me take it from there. If there is something I do not want, need or like, mark as spam or unsubscribe.
This feature is only invented by lazy disorganised people for lazy disorganised people.
Hate it. Off. Chronology is the ultimate “category.” The rest of it is marketing BS.
this!
the smart features on macOS in mail, music and photos app are way more use friendly because you can personalize all the rules.
iOS and iPadOS should have this features too in these apps (mail, photos, music)
Good video. I prefer the chronological view. Keep switching back and forth. Good to have options.