And manage those existing engineer resources better. Apple has the best and brightest talents in their disposal, make better use of them.
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iOS 18.2 Mail Sorting Features Strangely Absent on iPad and Mac
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How is it a “game changer”? It’s been available on Gmail for years, and the majority of people I know use Gmail, and via the web and/or the iPhone app. It's not a new idea, nor is it implemented any better.
Apple needs to allow custom groups in mail. Either way, I want my mail in chronological order from top to bottom, no exceptions, so it's off for me. Same with Outlook trying to sort email on my work computer.
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If it's that good, why did Apple add this feature to macOS and iPadOS. Let me guess, you only own an iPhone of Apple products.
And it's also been available on Yahoo Mail for years.
This guy is one of those people here who are in denial.
I noticed that it wasn’t on iPad in the beta. Some were conjecturing it was going to be in later betas on iPadOS and macOS but it never came.
I suspect based on looking at both apps over the past couple days that Mail on iPad is actually closer in codebase to macOS. Assuming that, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was an additional complication with how this worked on that app vs iPhone because of some legacy features or desktop related issues. This is purely speculative on my part.
I suspect based on looking at both apps over the past couple days that Mail on iPad is actually closer in codebase to macOS. Assuming that, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was an additional complication with how this worked on that app vs iPhone because of some legacy features or desktop related issues. This is purely speculative on my part.
Who cares? who even uses mail? I just use it for my private gmail. That's what it is for. But if you are serious you must use Outlook, the only MS product that is rock solid 
It’s true. Examples: iPadOS didn’t have the App Library, the new Lock Screen, or Home Screen widgets until at least a year after iOS.
Mail sorting was the first thing I turned off when I updated my iPhone yesterday.
It’s not that big a deal to me that my iPads don’t have the same feature. However, I think that it should be done for consistency and uniformity of features between the phone and iPad.
Yeah, I really expect the feature to be delivered either on a 18.2.1/15.2.1 update or, most likely, on 18.3/15.3.
I haven’t tried the feature so I don’t know how accurate it will be (especially with languages other than English), but I’d like to give it a try, and even “train” it if I can, to see if it makes my inbox better…
But I suspect I’ll end up disabling it in fear of missing unread emails…
Blindly throwing more engineers at the problem is how you end up with development by committee. Which means crap like Windows.
Frankly, I want my mail sorted chronologically!
I am perfectly capable of determining its importance/relevance TO ME!!!
I am perfectly capable of determining its importance/relevance TO ME!!!
a 3.74 Trillion market cap doesn't buy you what it used to. inflation is out of control 🤣
Also strange, that I can only see it, when switching iPhone language to English. In German it doesn't show the feature.
Who cares? who even uses mail? I just use it for my private gmail. That's what it is for. But if you are serious you must use Outlook, the only MS product that is rock solid
Who even uses mail?
Then goes on to say they use it
LMAO!!! thats peak Macrumors poster right there.
Put me in the “Turned it off” category. But hey, you do you 😎
Just lends more credence to my opinion that Apple now develops iOS first and the Mac is an afterthought software-wise.
Yes iOS is based on macOS but at this point you might as well point out that Windows is based on DOS. It’s so long in the past it’s not relevant anymore.
Yes iOS is based on macOS but at this point you might as well point out that Windows is based on DOS. It’s so long in the past it’s not relevant anymore.
Yep, this feature is superior on the iPad. Saves the user the trouble of having to turn it off.
IOS18 has been a buggy disaster for me. Worse than any of this stuff is that IOS18 cannot download emails from IMAP email servers, completely breaking mail for millions of people. Worse still is that IOS18 has simply deleted users Notes files. I've spoken to Apple Support about both of these issues and they confirmed that they're aware of the bugs and "working on it."
Ditto, and also "Show Contacts Photos" that wastes a lot of display space.