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When did OS X change to displaying the most recent email in a conversation at the bottom?

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sananda

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OS X Lion introduced Conversations (which groups emails from the same conversation together) and the most email in the conversation was displayed at the top by default: https://web.archive.org/web/20120104020711/http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/mail.html

At some point a version of OS X changed the default so that the most recent email in a conversation was displayed at the bottom by default. Does anyone know which version made this change?

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MarkC426 said:
Newest email has always been at the top for me.
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Oh! I have a vague recollection that the email threads started with the newest email at the top and at some update it changed so that the newest email was at the bottom. I vaguely remember being irritated by this change and reverting it.
 
Why. Does it matter. I always set the setting to show newest at top. Not sure if there has been a change in default. Wouldn't be suprised if they did it, when they introduced "natural" scrolling, which I also always disable.
 
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MarkC426 said:
Maybe somewhere after Mojave (which I am on).
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I did a little more research and according to ars Technica it was Sierra that changed it:

"By default, e-mail conversations are now displayed with the oldest message in the thread at the top and newer messages underneath instead of the other way around."

arstechnica.com

macOS 10.12 Sierra: The Ars Technica review

Apple’s desktop operating system once again plays second fiddle to iOS.
arstechnica.com arstechnica.com
 
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