Mail 4+

I don’t have a problem with all the functionality issues I see in other reviews. I’ve used this app for years and was accustomed to the simplicity of it. However, over the last year or so my Hotmail and Yandex accounts stopped working. It keeps asking for my password constantly. With Hotmail it would work, but what good is that if I have to type in my password every 2min? As that is how often it was prompting me. My Yandex account just stopped working altogether, asking for a password that, when I put it in, says something to the effect of “no password entered” (can’t remember exact phrase). Of the three email accounts I’ve consistently used over the past 10+ years, only yahoo remains functional. I’ve tried these accounts on other mail apps and there isn’t the same problem, so it must be something with the Apple app itself. Very disappointing considering this app worked fine for over a decade, and I liked that it didn’t really change much. Oh well.

It keeps forgetting my Outlook password. I'll put it in again and it will work for a few hours then it will forget it again and not let me log in at all. Then maybe a day later it will work again.

Edit: Fixed the password issue by creating an Outlook account instead of the Exchange account. I had created the Exchange account because of the password issue in the past with my Outlook account. Hopefully it sticks. So far so good. Two minutes of using the horrible dedicated Outlook app had me running back to this app to figure out a solution. This app is less cluttered, more streamlined and easier for me to use than the Outlook app which seems to be so dumbed down it actually impedes its functionality. Floating icons that get in the way. You can't even insert photos in-line, you have to attach them. Forget responding to an email without it creating weird threads and hiding emails. But this review isn't about that app, it's about this one. As long as it functions properly this is my go-to email client. The only feature I'm not too keen about is the "undo send". When I hit send I want the email to send. Not hang around in my outbox. Other than that. Zero complaints.

Ok, Apple. We get it. You’re a large corporation at war with other large corporations over internet dominance. You’re willing to use your customers as means to your ends. So it’s no great surprise when we try to read emails on this app that we get messages like “Account Error” or “This message was not downloaded from the server.” In my case, it happens all the time with my AOL and Gmail accounts. What is a nifty little surprise is that those same messages show up with my iCloud email account. That’s the funny thing about the battles in life. Once you start them, you never know where it will end. So tell us, Apple, are you at war with yourselves??? Or is it ever increasing incompetence and arrogance??? The dissatisfaction with this app and other native iOS apps speaks to a bigger problem for you, Apple. Things on our devices don’t work as well as they once did. Your customers are trying to tell you something and you don’t seem to be listening any longer. Bigger companies than you have gone out of business, companies that everyone thought would be around forever. Think Sears. Think it can’t happen to you? The nonsense with this app has been going on for over a year now. Email is a basic iOS function. For once, listen to your customers and get this thing fixed.