Why don't we admit that iOS does not have actual threaded email?

[KirkL]

If I have gmail, is there anything that the stock ios mail app can do that the newly updated gmail app cannot do? I remember I tried using the gmail app a while ago instead of the stock one but getting frustrated and returning to stock, but I don't remember my reasons why now.

Edit: I think maybe it had something to do with how email was displayed in the notification center?

If you have multiple accounts the Gmail app doesn't have Unified Inbox

 

[HankHowdy]

I am using the iOS mail app on exchange for a gmail address. I sync mail, contact and calendar. Can I sync all of this if I use the gmail app that all you guys keep raving about? #

 

[TacticalDesire]

Does the default mail app really not have a way to mark all messages as read or am I missing something?

 

[Small White Car]

Maybe I'm in the minority, but I hate thread email. Part of the reason I gave up on the web-access Gmail client is because it's confusing as hell to figure out what was a forward, what was a reply, what was a reply all, etc. I've also been in the corporate world (Outlook-dependent) for awhile now, so that may contribute to it.

Not everything has to function like a text message.

The funny thing to me in OS X Mac's Mail program is that they added this ability, but then had the problem where most people include the last message in their mail so stuff showed up multiple times so you saw what you wrote twice.

So, because of that they had to add the ability to auto hide the stuff you wrote that's included in the message the other guy wrote back to you.

So they have to hide the stuff they're showing to you a 2nd time just so it doesn't get confusing.

Seems like a big roundabout cluster**** just to get right back where we started from. Honestly, I've never even noticed that the iPhone doesn't have it since it seems to do so very little for me on the Mac.

 

[Carlanga]

So all Apple has to do is to make their own servers to handle this issue?

I mean because what they have right now is REALLY piss poor.

Is not piss poor. I like having my sent mail separate, maybe I'm too old and set up in my old ways (I'm in my mid-late 20's). Hate threaded email, I get too many emails and keeping track of emails in a threaded style is not efficient for me.

 

[negro napoleon]

Is not piss poor. I like having my sent mail separate, maybe I'm too old and set up in my old ways (I'm in my mid-late 20's). Hate threaded email, I get too many emails and keeping track of emails in a threaded style is not efficient for me.

But my point is not whether or not you want to use it, its that their solution is half-assed and you have the OPTION of using it if you want.

Why group all of my RECEIVED emails and call that a thread?

Thats not a thread. At all.

 

[PatrickW98]

This is why I use the GMail app.

 

[C DM]

But my point is not whether or not you want to use it, its that their solution is half-assed and you have the OPTION of using it if you want.

Why group all of my RECEIVED emails and call that a thread?

Thats not a thread. At all.

It actually seems to be a thread based on the original definition of it when most clients started to (and still) support it. Some clients, and in particular Gmail, have actually implemented or moved on to a conversation view, rather than threaded view, which is somewhat different.

Essentially, the iOS mail client supports threaded view, as a lot of clients do today, but not conversation view, which some clients support today, while quite a few (still) don't.