The first sync of an IMAP account now downloads its messages several times faster, and carries on through a dropped connection. When a mail server temporarily turns a sign-in away because of a connection limit, the app no longer says your password is wrong or asks you to sign in again. On iPad, the folder pane no longer repeats the app's name above your accounts, and on iPad and iPhone Calendar, Contacts and Settings now sit on the pane's own background, with no folders showing beneath them. The first sync of a JMAP account downloads its messages faster on servers that allow many to be fetched at once. Mail downloaded to your iPhone, iPad or Mac is no longer included in iCloud or Time Machine backups, so it no longer takes up your iCloud storage; after a restore it is downloaded again from your mail server. The subscription screen now links the Terms of Use and the privacy policy beside the Subscribe buttons. New mail on a newly added IMAP account now appears as it arrives, instead of only after the app is restarted. IMAP accounts now use at most five connections across all their folders, so a server that limits connections no longer makes your password look wrong; push now watches up to four folders per account.

New: Folders inside other folders are now drawn inside them, each with its own arrow, remembered the next time you open the app. A message that cannot be sent right away waits in the Outbox and goes out by itself when the connection returns; you can send it now, edit it or cancel it. A folder that looks empty says whether it really is empty or whether older mail is still on the server. Contacts from a Google account appear in the app, including your colleagues on a work account. Tapping a new-mail notification opens that message instead of just the app, and when several arrive at once a short "+N more" tells you how many are waiting. Share a photo, a document or a link from the app you are in, and a message opens with it already attached. You can resize a picture in a message by dragging one of its corners, and it keeps its proportions. Setting a server up by hand now offers its port and its connection security beside the server name, and mail software running on your own machine, such as Proton Mail Bridge, can be connected once you have seen and accepted the certificate it identifies itself with. Settings shows your subscription: what you are being charged, by whom and when it renews, and on Mac, iPhone and iPad you can cancel it, start it again or switch period where Allodia bills you directly. Fixed: Accepting, declining or answering "maybe" to an invitation works on a Microsoft account, which also shows the folders filed inside other folders and the mail in them. Archiving, deleting or flagging a message applies reliably, instead of the row returning a moment later. A folder whose mail could not be downloaded tries again the next time you open it. The folder pane highlights the folder you are reading, and Calendar, Contacts and Settings stay at the bottom of it while your accounts and folders stay on screen. Replying to a plain-text message keeps its line breaks and quote levels. A picture arrives at the size you gave it. A provider asking the app to slow down is no longer reported as an outage. Signing in to your Allodia account no longer briefly reports that you are signed out, and connecting an account no longer asks for a name your provider already knows.

On iPhone and iPad you now pull the list down to sync. Your accounts' inboxes are now one "All Accounts" group you can open and shut. A newsletter written for a wider screen now reflows to fit the reading pane instead of running off the right edge, at whatever width you read it. New-mail notifications now show how the message begins, after the sender and the subject. An open message can now be saved as an .eml file, from the new menu at the end of the reading toolbar. Search results are now grouped into conversations when conversation grouping is on. On iPhone and iPad the sender, recipients and attachments now scroll away with the message, leaving reply, archive and delete in place at the top. You can now pinch to zoom a message, and every message opens at its own scale again. A list or a selection holding one thing now reads "1 conversation" rather than "1 conversations". Forwarding a message now brings its attachments into the composer, where you can remove any you would rather not pass on. A folder holding one unread message now reads as a singular in French. Mail accounts on JMAP providers that hand setup to a separate server, such as Thundermail, can now be added. Pulling down to sync on the mailbox list no longer hides the search field or jolts the messages, and the list's menu is gone: both of its options are in Settings. Pinching the calendar on iPhone and iPad zooms it again, both the hours and the days. An open message now fits the screen on iPhone: the date, the actions and the message itself no longer run off the edges. Mail arriving in a folder you opened yourself now shows up on a refresh, and message previews appear as soon as the bodies are downloaded. Newsletters that adapt to a small screen now do so in the reading view, instead of being cut off at the right edge on a phone. Search results no longer flicker between the right answer and an unrelated list while you are still typing. Subjects and sender names in alphabets such as Japanese now read correctly; mail synced earlier corrects itself on the next full sync.

Drag files onto a message you are writing to attach them. Drag a picture and you are asked whether to show it in the message or send it as a file to download. Change the subject when replying or forwarding. The field opens with the usual "Re:" or "Fwd:" and is yours to edit before sending. Paste a screenshot or a photo straight into a message and it appears where you are typing, sent as part of the message rather than as a file to download. Add and edit contacts. Fill in a name, organisation, role, addresses and numbers, and save into any address book your accounts can write to. Editing a person who is in two accounts asks which one you mean, and changes nothing you did not touch. Scroll the calendar sideways with a trackpad, a mouse wheel or a finger, and it now runs straight across the week boundary instead of stopping at Sunday, coming to rest on a whole day. Pick several messages and deal with them together: archive, trash, mark read or unread, flag. Ctrl-click and Shift-click on a computer, Select or a long press on a phone. Set how often an event repeats: daily, weekly, monthly or yearly, every few days or weeks, on the weekdays you pick. Choose whether it ends on a date, after a number of times, or never. Set the name your mail goes out under. You are asked once when an account is added, and can change it any time in Settings, so your messages arrive as your name rather than just your address. Closing an event with Cancel or Save no longer reopens it straight away. Editing a repeating event from a later occurrence no longer deletes the ones before it, and changing the time there now moves the whole series by that much. HTML messages show their own layout, fonts and inline images again, instead of plain unstyled text. Moving between messages no longer flashes a dark panel where the message should be; the page stays put and only the message on it changes.

A repeating event now says exactly how it repeats — every second Tuesday, the fourth Monday of the month, until a date — and changing or deleting a single occurrence asks whether you meant that one or the whole series. Changing a whole series warns you first if your account's server would undo what you had changed on one occurrence. Settings has its own place to create an Allodia account, sign in, or delete it, separately from your mail accounts. With one, the mail accounts you add on one device are offered on the next — the addresses and server settings, never your mail and never your passwords. Very large messages now arrive when you open them instead of downloading in the background, which saves mobile data, and each account can choose the largest message to keep offline: 2, 5 or 10 MB, or no limit. Lowering it frees space without removing any mail. Much faster: in our testing, adding a large Gmail account went from about nine minutes to under thirty seconds, Fastmail and other JMAP accounts download about nine times faster, and Outlook about three. A folder opens the moment you pick it, and moving between messages no longer flashes a loading spinner. Fixed: Settings pages scroll on iPhone, so nothing below the first screenful is out of reach, and tapping into a message no longer zooms the composer in. When a mail server asks us to slow down, that part of the sync is no longer left unfinished. Opening one occurrence of a repeating event shows that occurrence's own date. Changing a single appointment now works on Google calendars, moving one a second time works, and one appointment with an unusual repeat rule no longer stops the rest of your calendar arriving. Messages in Junk and Trash on Gmail stay put. Choosing a folder opens that folder, even when All Inboxes is showing. A new message and a new event open with the cursor already in place, address suggestions float over the message instead of pushing the rest of the window down, calendar diagnostics no longer include your account's address, and an Allodia sign-in that needs renewing says so instead of showing a technical error.

Senders and contacts now show their photo where your account has one, and coloured initials where it does not, in place of the envelope icon. Contacts come across from accounts you sign in to. Drag on the calendar grid to create, move and resize events, and your calendar is on screen the moment the app opens. The iPhone gets the folder pane the other apps have: every account's folders at once, staying as you left them, with each folder's unread count and known folders under their proper names. Pick light or dark yourself, or keep following the system. In the composer: nested bullets, table rows and columns, and text colour; typing "- " starts a bullet list; the editor's own buttons now speak the app's language; and it opens on the fields a message usually needs. A long address no longer pushes it off the screen, and it stays put while you write. Attachments open in the system's viewer, and a message with many files stays readable. Search says how far back it looked, so an empty answer never reads as "there is no such message". Invitations: answer one on an account whose calendar server will not answer for you; the older copy of a re-sent meeting stops pretending it can still be answered; an answer that could not be delivered says so; and an invitation shows on its own day preview. There is an About page, and keeping less mail frees the space right away. Faster: the mail list opens at once however much mail you have, the app stays responsive during a first sync, new mail arrives with less waiting, and the list no longer jumps when a background sync starts. Fixed: reply-all keeps every recipient. A refused password says so instead of blaming the server, and one refused folder no longer asks you to sign in again. A sent message always leaves a copy in Sent. A forward stays in the conversation it came from, and a message you open stays in its conversation. Folder names with an ampersand or non-Latin characters read correctly.