Is it really save to use Mail app vs. Web Browsing Email?

It should be safe.

I think there is an encryption problem with attachments that haven't been corrected yet. However when I read up on it it either didn't effect me or wasn't significant enough for me to worry about.

So I'd vote on just using the mail app for convenience unless there is a another security flaw I'm unaware of.

 

They say that apps are safer than the web...

 

I have all my emails on the default mail app and I'm still alive...

 

That was always my thinking. The mail app is sandboxed where as your browser isn't.

Could be a false sense of security but I always feel "safer" using the native app.

My work email goes through the native app as well and there is no web-based way to access it, so there is that as well.

 

There is little the NSA can not get into. Either with or without the blessing of Apple.

 

I take this back.

iOS 7.1.2 fixed the security flaw in the email app just now lol.

 

Everyone is so paranoid these days. I don't see why it should be any less secure than using the web.

 

Bugs? Look at the pic I posted.

 

Any data travelling over the internet can be intercepted and if you don't host your own e-mail then all your mail sits on another companies server for years or indefinitely if it's someone like Google, Outlook, Yahoo etc. To answer your question, I have no problem at all with the iPhone mail app and I use a variety of methods to read my e-mail (iPhone Mail app, Mac Mail app, Airmail app, Outlook 2013 etc).

If you have something that secure and sensitive you need somebody to see, then you wouldn't have been sending it over the internet anyway, right?

Nothing is secure. It never was and never will be.

 

Web based email is susceptible to bugs as well. No security is 100% foolproof. I don't think that sending email through your phone is inherently less secure than logging on to a website.