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iOS27: Bringing Apple Mail Improvements

Apple will officially release iOS 27 on Monday, September 14, 2026. With that release comes an updated version of Apple Mail on mobile. 9to5Mac (and others) say that improvements will include faster message loading, more reliable search, and more. Will there be other impacts? Will rendering be impacted? Will BIMI logo support be the same as it is today? And what bugs might there be in the &…
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iOS 26 and the anger of the Unknown Senders

Wesley Hilliard at Apple Insider covers  a story that has certain political fundraising groups up in arms : Apple's upcoming iOS 26 release will start automatically sorting messages from unknown numbers into a new "Unknown Senders" category. That means no notifica…

Having trouble with Apple Mail? You're not alone

If you've updated to iOS 18.5 recently and suddenly found that the Mail app on your iPhone is acting more like a frozen popsicle than a productivity tool, you're in good company, and not in a good way. Hundreds of iOS users have taken to Reddit to vent about Apple Mail …

iOS 18.3.2 reportedly causing email delivery issues in Apple Mail

Apple Insider and others are reporting that the iOS 18.3.2 update may have introduced a bug into Apple Mail that impacts email delivery. Senders aren't going to see a negative impact to SMTP transactions or anything like that; this is entirely an end user mail application i…

Staying Calm About Categories in Apple Mail

Yesterday, my wife and I were jumping into the car about noon to go grab lunch together. “Ugh,” she said after she got settled and we started driving away. “Something changed in Apple Mail and I don’t like it.” It turns out that she was referring to categories in Apple Mail on …

Apple iOS 18.2 is out: My first impressions

The latest version of Apple's mobile operating system was released on December 11th and now I am able to experience the updated features of Apple Mail first-hand. Here's what I'm observing so far, after having used it for a couple of days: Apple Intelligence-driven …

Apple: Big changes ahead

Some email marketers do seem to be freaking out about the upcoming changes to Apple Mail after seeing screenshots of inboxes from the forthcoming iOS 18.2 update. I don't think it's the end of the world -- and I'm not even totally convinced that Apple Mail is in a l…

iCloud users can now change their email address

Starting with iOS 18.1, Apple users will now be able to change their primary iCloud email address. As "9 To 5 Mac" reports, prior to this, users could create aliases, but an iCloud account's primary email address was not modifiable. Find more details here .

Apple iOS18 is here: What email senders need to know

A new version of Apple's mobile operating system has been released! This latest edition, iOS18 (18.0), was released on Monday, September 16th. Like many of you, I was quick to install it on my phone, though at first I've only installed it on a backup device, my trusty i…

Apple Intelligence overwrites pre-headers on Apple Mail?

Is this the beginning of the end of pre-headers? It might be! Watching today's Apple Event (September 9th) highlighting new iPhones and Apple Watch and Airpods updates, I noticed just a tiny little tip about how Apple Intelligence will help you stay on top of your most im…

Apple announces tabs coming to Apple Mail on iOS

Breaking news: Just announced at WWDC 2024 : As part of Apple's presentation on new features of iOS 18, they've indicated that the upcoming version of Apple Mail for iOS will support categorization, perhaps akin to Gmail tabs, with these categories:: Primary, Transactio…

iPhone users: dealing with spam messages

This isn't anything TOO earth shattering, but it was a nice collection of tips all in once place, so I thought it would be a good thing to share. (And I'm in Detroit today, so I didn't have much time to spend on the blog.) Maisie Bovingdon, writing for the Irish Mir…

PSA: You can buy a domain directly from the iPhone Settings app

This is pretty neat. Writes Ben Lovejoy for 9TO5Mac : When configuring custom email domain settings on iOS, you can even buy a domain name directly from the iPhone. Kind of neat, if you're mobile-first. And one assumes you'll be able to access the resulting configured c…

FAQ: List Unsubscribe on Apple Mail on iOS

It was back in 2016 that we learned that Apple planned to add list-unsubscribe support to Apple's iOS email client , and that support came with iOS 10.  Many ESPs have long supported a special header, the "list unsubscribe" header. Google's Gmail and Microsof…

Schedule your email to send later on iOS

Thanks to a new feature in iOS 16, it's pretty easy for you to schedule an email you're writing to be automatically sent in the future at a certain time. Check out the how-to here , courtesy of Mac Observer. And if you're looking for more information on all the diff…

BIMI on iOS: It's alive!

Check it out -- it's our first taste of BIMI on iOS outside of beta. Apple iOS users who upgrade to iOS 16 can now see a BIMI logo associated with an email send, depending on what mailbox provider they use. All four of these CNN Newsletter signup emails were opened and view…

What a BIMI logo looks like in iOS 16

This is all subject to change, of course. Currently, we're only as far as the first version of the iOS 16 Public Beta , and much could be different by the time we get to the actual final (non-beta) release version of iOS, which is said to launch  late in 2022. But already, …

Let's talk List-Unsubscribe!

I was talking to friends running an ESP platform the other day, helping them understand the difference between the available types of list unsubscribe headers, what does it all mean and how does it all work. Might you find that interesting as well? Let's see. List-unsubscri…

What Does iOS 15 Mean for Email Deliverability during the 2021 Busy Season?

Editor's note: Spam Resource is more-or-less on a break this week, which makes for a great opportunity for me to share a guest post by John Peters, Deliverability Specialist for Campaign Monitor . Take it away, John! During the busy email season the global volume of emails …

Apple WWDC Announcement: Privacy and Pixel Tracking

On Monday, Apple announced at WWDC that iOS 15's Mail application will include important new privacy features, specifically masking of IP addresses and blocking open detection pixel tracking. This, of course, amounts to a significant change, and is likely to impact how wel…