iPhone and iPad Mail Tips, Tricks and Secrets
Most Popular iPhone Mail Tips
What a few taps and pinches will do: find the most popular tips and tutorials for iPhone Mail here.
Enter .com and Other Top-Level Domains Fast in Email Addresses on an iPhone
Hold on to one key faster while tapping email addresses in iPhone Mail (and elsewhere on your iPhone or iPod touch) and you may be able to tap them faster.
How to Access a Yahoo! Mail Account in iPhone Mail
Setting up a Yahoo! Mail account to send and receive emails is easy in iPhone (and iPod touch) Mail.
How to Access AIM Mail in iPhone Mail
Send and receive mail from a free AIM Mail account in iPhone Mail, and find old mail in online folders seamless, too.
How to Access Free Windows Live Hotmail in iPhone Mail
Set up access to a free Windows Live Hotmail or MSN Hotmail account in iPhone Mail. Working transparently, you can even use your custom folders in addition to fetching and sending mail.
How to Access Gmail in iPhone Mail
You can open Gmail in your iPhone's Safari, but what's that compared to the concentrated comfort of a dedicated email application? Here's how to set up a Gmail or Google Apps email account in iPhone Mail.
How to Add Free Push Windows Live Hotmail to iPhone Mail
Want new emails in your Windows Live Hotmail account pushed to your iPhone, and folders to sync automatically? Here's how to set up push Windows Live Hotmail in iPhone Mail.
How to Add or Remove VIP Senders in iOS Mail
Important senders' emails first: add to (and remove from) the list of VIP senders in iPhone Mail and iPad Mail to have key incoming messages collected automatically in a separate view.
How to Add Rich Formatting to Text in iPhone Mail
Your text can be bold; it can also be underlined in iPhone Mail and italicized.
How to Copy a Link in iPhone Mail
You can copy links from emails to your task list, calendar, contact, notes and more — straight from iPhone Mail, without detouring through Safari.
How to Create Calendar Events from Emails in iPhone Mail
The invitation is in the mail. With iPhone Mail, it's easy to get it out, too, turning date and time mentioned in an email into calendar events with verve and swift finger.
How to Create Folders to File and Organize Mail in iPhone Mail
Don't want to archive a message yet and don't want to keep it in your inbox either? Here's how to create a new folder to take it in iPhone Mail.
How to Delete a Folder in iPhone Mail
Have a folder in iPhone Mail that has run its course? Here's how delete iPhone Mail folders you no longer need.
How to Delete a Message Swiftly in iPhone Mail
You can get rid of an email in iPhone Mail by tapping around. Or you swipe at the right place and do it swiftly.
How to Find Out Where a Link Will Take You in iPhone Mail
Phishing link or genuine? Affiliate or author? In iPhone Mail, seeing the URL behind a rich-text or image link is easy.
How to Find Out Which of Your Addresses Received an Email in iPhone Mail
Want to know which of your addresses received a particular email — but iPhone Mail only displays your name in the "To:" line? Here's how to find the address of reception behind the name.
How to Get VIP Email Alerts in iOS Mail
Learn (only) about emails from VIP senders, and learn about them right away by setting up special iPhone Mail (or iPad Mail) alerts for key messages.
How to Flag Mail in iPhone Mail
Have emails sport a red flag to draw attention to their importance. Here's how to flag messages individually, in bulk or in threads with iPhone Mail — and how to remove flags, too.
How to Indent Text in iPhone Mail or Decrease its Quotation Level
Want to include a quotation in your reply and set it apart with traditional style? Here's how to indent text and add to its quotation level — and how to decrease that level, of course.
How to Instantly Spot Emails Sent to You Directly or via Cc in iPhone Mail
Are the emails sent to you directly typically the most important and urgent? Find out how to find them faster in iPhone Mail.
How to Make iPhone Mail Check for New Mail Less Often (or Never)
Email whenever you like, not when the red new mail counter demands it — or have iPhone Mail check for new messages more frequently.
How to Make iPhone Mail Indent Quoted Text in Replies and Forwards (or Not)
Want quoted parts in your emails be indented classically with '> '? Here's how to set up iPhone Mail to do that automatically (or, conversely, disable automatic indentation should you tire of it).
How to Make iPhone Mail Delete Mail from POP Servers (or Keep It)
If you delete an email in iPhone Mail, you want it gone from your server, too — and not showing up in webmail or your desktop email program? Here's how to make iPhone Mail delete messages from a POP account.
How to Make iPhone Mail Keep Less Deleted Mail
Avoid deleting every message twice. Have iPhone Mail empty the "Trash" folder more frequently instead.
How to Make iPhone Mail Load Faster
Apple calls what's spinning in iPhone's info bar an "asynchronous progress indicator". Don't want to see it much when checking mail? Here's how to have iPhone Mail download only the bare minimum — and display it fast upon launch.
How to Make iPhone Mail Sync More, All or Less Mail
Wondering where all your old emails have gone, or wishing iPhone Mail would show only the most recent? Here's how to choose how much mail iPhone Mail downloads from an Exchange email account.
How to Make iPhone Mail Use a Minimum Text Size for Displaying Emails
Make mail more legible by having iPhone Mail enlarge tiny fonts automatically.
How to Mark Email Unread in iPhone Mail
Tapped an email by mistake or don't like that iPhone Mail opened it automatically after you filed the last? Here's how to tap emails unread.
How to Make Swiping Delete (or Archive) for Gmail in iPhone Mail
Want your swipe to delete, not archive and keep mail in iPhone Mail? Here's how to make iPhone Mail really delete messages when you swipe them, even for Gmail accounts.
How to Move or Delete Messages in Bulk with iPhone Mail
Want to take a bunch of messages in iPhone Mail and delete them with as few taps and swipes as possible? Want the same for moving mail, too? Here's what to do.
How to Open Attachments in External Apps from iPhone Mail
Want more than just looking at PDFs, Office documents and other attached files? Here's how to open attachments in external apps straight out of iPhone Mail.
How to Pick Folders to Push in iPhone Mail
Push email is not for the Inbox alone. Here's how to have any Exchange folders' contents pushed to your iPhone Mail.
How to Prevent iPhone Mail from Downloading Remote Images
Make sure iPhone Mail does not reveal what email you read — and where: here's how to prevent it from downloading remote images automatically.
How to Prevent Sent Gmail Email Appearing in Your iPhone Mail Inbox
Do you get copies of all messages you send from iPhone Mail in your very iPhone Mail's Inbox? Here's how to stop that if you're using Gmail in iPhone Mail.
How to Read Emails in Threads with iPhone Mail
Don't go hunting for other messages in a conversation: iPhone Mail can group emails to the same subject for convenient reading and fast filing, for example.
How to Quote Only Select Text in iPhone Mail
Don't want to be one of those who send emails that include screen after screen full of quoted text and images? Here's how to have iPhone Mail quote only the essential part.
How to Save a Message as a Draft in iPhone Mail
Can't continue tapping right now? Tap two more times and save your message as a draft — to be continued later — in iPhone Mail.
How to Save Email Addresses and Phone Numbers to Contacts in iPhone Mail
If a name, email address, phone number or address appears in an email and you'd like to save it to your iPhone address book, don't bother re-tapping or even copying. iPhone Mail can add contact details to new or existing address book entries for you.
How to Scroll to an Email's Top Fast in iPhone Mail
See your iPhone Mail scroll in overdrive as you go to any message's top with a single tap.
How to Search Mail in iPhone Mail
Looking for a particular email? Let iPhone Mail help you scan senders, recipients and subjects, even on the server if it supports that.
How to Send a Photo or Image with iPhone Mail
Easily share your best photos (as well as screenshots and images you've saved from the web) by sending them inline with iPhone Mail.
How to Send an Email to a Group Fast in iOS Mail for iPhone and iPad
With a group set up in Contacts, you can address that group with ease, speed and panache in iOS Mail for iPhone and iPad.
How to Send an Email to Undisclosed Recipients in iPhone Mail
Email a group easily and keep each recipient's email address private, too. Here's how to send an email to "undisclosed recipients" in iPhone Mail.
How to Send Mail from a Different Account and From: Address in iPhone Mail
Be aunt, CEO, blogger and more: in iPhone Mail, picking the right email address to appear in the From: line is easy (and you don't have to switch accounts to do it).
How to Send Mail to Bcc Recipients in iPhone Mail
Send messages to more than one recipient from iPhone Mail and keep the recipients' addresses confidential.
How to Set Up Contacts for Group Mailing in iOS Mail for iPhone and iPad
Want to pick one contact instead of three, seven, nineteen? Have to mail many efficiently? iOS Contacts lets you set up groups to address, say, an email message to multiple recipients with speed and ease using iOS Mail on iPhone and iPad.
How to Set Up Multiple From Addresses with an iPhone Mail Account
Want to send mail using more than one address but avoid setting up multiple accounts in iPhone Mail? Here's how to set up multiple From: addresses for a single email account in iPhone Mail.
How to Set Up Push Gmail in iPhone Mail
Mail arriving in your Gmail Inbox pushed to your iPhone within seconds, and your iPhone Mail alway already populated with all the latest mail when you open it? Here's how to set up push Gmail in iPhone Mail.
How to Set Up Text Snippets for Fast Typing in iPhone Mail
Want to tap less, get more on the screen and make no mistakes? Here's how to set up text snippets for oft-used phrases that will automatically expand in iPhone Mail as you write emails and replies.
How to Set Up Your iPhone Mail Signature
Don't tap your every email's finishing lines. Have iPhone Mail insert them automatically: here's how to set up an email signature in iPhone Mail.
How to Turn the New Mail Alert Sound On or Off in iPhone Mail
Make iPhone Mail alert you to new messages with a sound — or not.
How to Type International Accented Letters in iPhone Mail
Tap words like "Champs Élysées" with style and correct accents in iPhone Mail.
How to Type with a Big Keyboard and Read on a Wide Screen in iPhone Mail
Tiny keyboard and tiny letters? It's not necessary: here's how to get a bigger keyboard in iPhone Mail and use a wider screen to read messages.
How to Use a Gmail Account with Multiple Email Addresses in iPhone Mail
Do you aggregate all your email accounts in Gmail and want to reply smartly from the correct address and keep your sent mail organized at Gmail — and do it all in iPhone Mail? Here's how.
How to View Text with Larger Type in iOS Mail
Text, even in emails, is best read at large enough a size. You can set up iOS to show all text in Mail (as well as some other applications) on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch using big type.
How to Zoom In on an Email in iPhone Mail
Text not legible? Image too small? In iPhone Mail, you can enlarge portions of your emails with a couple of taps.