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Get Productive With Apple Mail on iPhone and iPad
Mail for iPhone and iPad has many productivity boosting features. Apple hid them.
Everyone seems to hate email, but it’s hard to escape it. How then do you rule it rather than allowing it to rule you?
The default Mail app for iOS and iPadOS seems like an unlikely way of getting on top of the email junk pile, but you’d be surprised. It’s more capable than you think.
How could that be? Apple isn’t modest.
I have to give the credit to the “world-beating” Apple user interface design team. If you’ve read some of my other articles, you’ll know I have a love/hate relationship with their work.
If this were a YouTube video, U2’s hit, “With or Without You” would be playing now.
Apple software has some great capabilities, but for reasons I don’t understand, the ace Apple UI team often hide them away. I didn’t realise until I wrote this, for example, that you can easily view only unread messages you received today.
I’m not here to argue that Apple’s Mail is the best email app on iOS/iPadOS, but I am saying that good features are hidden away.
These include:
- An easy way to unsubscribe from mailing lists
