How to disable "Organize by conversation" on Mails using Mac

The technical issue is that the UI does not work in an obvious or intuitive way. Setting "Organise by Conversation" should do what it says and there should be no requirement to repeatedly revisit this option in order to achieve the user's preferred result.

Agree.

I've spent the last day setting "Organise by Conversation" to off all over the place but it keeps coming back. Why?

This last suggestions by WaveRider21 worked for me. Wonderful! Thank you.

I just tried this and yes, it seems that when you do a search "Organize by Conversation" is turned on.

Personally, I would not have noticed it, because I actually prefer it, and always have it on.

Two things you can do:

1) Add a keyboard shortcut. This will at least make it less painful to revert the changes.

In System Settings->Keyboard, click Keyboard Shortcuts, then App Shortcuts. Add a new shortcut: type the text of the menu exactly: "Organize by Conversation" (without the quotes) and choose a shortcut.

Then whenever you need to turn it off, just press the designated keyboard shortcut.

2) Report the issue to feedback. Only Apple can change how Mail works, so tell them what is happening.

https://www.apple.com/feedback

If as you have mentioned above and is Reproducible on a Regular Basis.

If Apple can Reproduce and get the same results - then perhaps you have found a Software Bug in Venture >> Mail

Then have a few suggestions ;

1 - Get Support Choose a product and we’ll find you the best solution.Start now and open an Apple Support Ticket as they are Apple Employees to deal will these types of issues.

2 - Product Feedback - Apple and make it known to Apple regarding this ongoing issue 

What I have found is in " View " of Mail Top Menu Bar

I have to disable " Organized by Conversation " of each individual Folder in the Mail Application

Refer to below image

In this case I was looking at the Inbox but as mentioned the same Disable would have to done of all Folders

In Second image is the Archive Folder with " Organized by Conversation " Disable

johan.belin wrote:

Organize by conversation is like Zombie that never dies. So incredibly annoying!!!

FWIW, if you use a Gmail account there is a setting to disable conversations when you log into gmail.com and choose advanced settings. I don't know about other email providers.

I had the same issue, and I believe I know a solution. If you have multiple e-mail addresses in Apple Mail, you will also have an "All Inboxes" aggregator. You need to make sure that "Organize by Conversation" is turned off in the All Inboxes mailbox by going to View and unchecking. I have found that if this is on, it will seemingly keep turning on Organize by Conversation in the individual mailboxes. I hope this helps.

johan.belin wrote:

Organize by conversation is like Zombie that never dies. So incredibly annoying!!!

Sorry, but do not quite see how the above is directly related to the Technical issue.

Yes, one maybe frustrated on how Apple has implemented to Organize by Conversation

Though, we have attempted to illustrate a possible solution

Worst case, use a Third Party e-mail client that you finder to your liking

There is no requirement to only use Mail

There are plenty of Third Party e-mail clients available