Mail 4+

PLEASE IM BEGGING YOU APPLE. iOS 15 brought lots of bugs and defects to the mail app for iPhone. I need to use my mail and this was super frustrating and inconvenient. Now, after iOS 15.1 supposedly “fixed mail crashes” (it was crashing), the app is now slightly usable but still EXTREMELY buggy, unreliable, and STILL crashes. Every email takes about 15 seconds to appear once I tap on it. Every time I try to move mail to another folder it disappears briefly, but then isn’t in the folder I moved it into, and then it just reappears in its original folder and says I haven’t read it. The “Read” system is also completely not working. The date at the bottom of the app that says “Last Updated” often says dates that were weeks or even months ago when I have new mail from today. Half the time I press the screen while using the app it doesn’t even register. Folders never open. I can’t delete mail. When I double tap the home button and swipe the app away, it doesn’t refresh when I open it again. It just stays how I left it the last time, on a frozen screen with a button that has been pressed but isn’t working. The app is I SUPPOSE a fraction better then the iOS 15 beta but gosh, it’s just impossible to use. I honestly expect more.

Please, Apple. Just fix this stupid app so I can use it again.

Apple Mail worked perfectly with Outloook until I downloaded IOS 15. I could not open any emails. I restarted my iPad twice and that didn’t correct this problem. I deleted Apple Mail and downloaded that App twice and I still could not open my emails on Apple Mail. The Apple App kept stating that I already was using my current Outlook email address and asked if I wanted to set up another email address in AOL, Yahoo, and Outlook!! I didn’t want to delete Outlook and reload it for fear that I would lose my contacts and my mailboxes. I can’t wait until Apple or Outlook revises their Apps until IOS 15 is compatible with Apple Mail or Outlook. I’ve switched to Edison Mail and it works well.

Email has been around since the beginning of the Internet. And Apple Mail has changed very little over that time. This app gets the basic job done. They’ve added some unsubscribe and anti-pixel tracking features (to keep advertisers frustrated), other than that though it hasn’t added much else.

The spam filtering is hit or miss. Smart mailboxes that you setup on macOS do not sync to iOS or iPadOS. Folder (mailbox) configurations don’t sync either - so you’re forced to organize your folders constantly.

When I see products like Hey and how they’re trying to innovate and rethink the problem of email I wish Apple did more themselves. All the ML technology in iOS devices and it’s not used for their Mail app in ways that make my life better. So there’s a lot to be desired here - uncreative.