Just updated to 18.2. The Mail App is terrible. I just want it to be how it was, I don’t know, the entire time I’ve been in the iOS ecosystem. You know, like 10+ years.
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mike719 wrote:
Newer does not mean better! Just because you change something doesn’t mean you’re improving it. Please send an update so we can choose which way we want mail to show on the app
Amazingly, you have that choice already! It doesn’t require an update! And how to do that has been posted in this thread dozens of times! To save you the trouble of reading:
To remove the icons in the list view:
To turn off Categories:
These 2 steps will return the Mail app to the way it previously worked.
greginthevalley wrote:
My personal feedback is that I would appreciate it if Apple included the information on how to opt or how to revert to the earlier look of mail along with the update.
Have you given that feedback to Apple?
JustLilOleMe wrote:
stop playing “I need to impress my boss by improving things”. No! No you don’t.
It's not anyone needing to impress their boss. It's their boss telling them that the feedback has been tabulated and they need to add a feature people have been asking for.
However, it's a feature you don't need to use if you don't want to. Review the thread for instructions on how to disable it.
In the mail app upper right corner choose the Select button. You will see two view options for your mail. It is automatically set for categories that we all seem to dislike. Click the button under list view and your email list will not show the icons.
This group thread is a space to help each other and not to be rude to someone who is trying to help. It may not be exactly what you want, but it does certainly get rid of all the icons. I hope everyone has a great day Tina.
lafter wrote:
I’d like to know how to put it back too. The update for email is total garbage. Hopefully they will give us the option to go back. This list view is no better. If apple wont listen hopefully someone finds a solve to share.
Have you told Apple how you feel?
No it doesn’t I did that and I still have those icons to the left of each email. Ugh
See Lawrence Finch's post of March 6th.
Following the suggestions here make it look like it did before the update but it still seems to be categorizing my mail and doesn’t show I have new messages (indicated by a red circle with a number in the corner of the app button) for mail it doesn’t consider “primary mail.” I had an email from a client sitting in my mailbox and didn’t know it until I physically opened the mail app to check. That email along with 10 other new emails (like Amazon shipping info, etc.) were not indicated on my Home Screen, showed up as new unread mail. Is there a way to stop it from categorizing things on its own. Not everything is junk like it seems to think.
It is so awful, missed a couple of semi-important emails. Anyway, reversing is pretty simple (for once!). Now need to try and do the same with the new Amazon app which is even worse if you can believe that. Thanks for the tip.
I have tried this but didn’t work and I have still have this issues. This update caused me to lose some important emails.also when I want to trash one email it deletes all related emails.
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I worked in user interface design and usability for 15 years. I only now updated - I think I was on like iOS 14 or something. I regret it. Less is more and Steve Jobs got that. It doesn’t feel to me that any real user testing was done for this update, especially with this dumb Mail update.
-Ronster- wrote:
What a useless mail update.
A lot of these ‘improvements’ are irritating and generally counterproductive. I loved my iPhone and Apple products >5-10y ago.
Not anymore.
We used to have a slogan at the Fortune 100 company I worked for at the time, "Embrace change." A bit hokey but still good advice. Change is going to happen whether you like it or not. You can either learn to accept it or sit around being very grumpy. The choice is entirely yours.
-Ronster- wrote:
What a useless mail update.
A lot of these ‘improvements’ are irritating and generally counterproductive. I loved my iPhone and Apple products >5-10y ago.
Not anymore.
Taking that philosophy back to the beginning, we would still be using MS-DOS on 1983 IBM PC/XTs.
The new email format that came along with the latest IOS upgrade is AWFUL,
and selecting the “list” option doesn’t help much. Bring the former, more simple in every way, format back. This stinks!! Sometimes the better decision is just to leave it alone.
-Ronster- wrote:
I think you're confusing "innovation" and "change for the sake of change"...
This change is a bunch of mediocre folks trying to keep themselves busy.
I think you're assuming that everyone has the same needs and wants as you and anything else is "mediocre."
Olevano1 wrote:
This new Apple mail setup looks very similar to Google’s email, which I don’t like either. Why couldn’t Apple just stay with a good thing!
Then change its back to what is was before the update. The instructions on how do it are contained on this thread. Have you bothered to read it at all.
Can I revert to the Mail App after the iOS 18.2 update
