how to show flag on flagged emails

Hello anita293,

Welcome to Apple Support Communities. It looks like you're having a question about flagging emails on the Mail app on your Mac, and we'd be happy to get your questions answered.

Please check out this helpful link:

Flag emails in Mail on Mac

We hope this information is useful. Kind regards.

Same problem, but Luis Sequeira mentioned in another post that if you control click on the header row, a list of view options appears, one of which is "flag"; click on it and the red flag appears next to your flagged emails. You need to use column view for this to work.

Hello anita293,

Thanks for following up with us. We understand that the flag doesn't show up on the header of your flagged emails, and we'd be happy to help.

To get started, let's force quit the Mail application. Choose Apple menu > Force Quit, select the Mail app in the dialog that appears, then click Force Quit. You may lose unsaved changes. Then open it again, and test.

If that didn't help, let's try to restart your Mac by choosing Apple menu > Restart.

If the issue persists, check for updates to your software. Before updating, make sure you have a recent backup of your data:

Back up your Mac

Keep your Mac up to date

If the behavior persists or you run into any trouble, please reach out again. Cheers!

anita293,

I'm sorry it didn't help. All I can suggest is to be sure a drop down menu appeared, with one of the items shown as "Flags". That's the one to click. also, be sure you are in column mode. If that still doesn't help, I don't know what else to suggest.