iPad & iPad Pro For Dummies, 2024-2025 Edition

Chapter 5

The Email Must Get Through

IN THIS CHAPTER

Setting up email accounts

Reading and managing email messages

Sending email messages

Working with attachments

Ensuring the swift completion of your email rounds

Although in this modern age lots of people prefer to communicate via text message (you get to that in Chapter 6), it’s still impossible to imagine a world without email. Sure, we moan and complain about the sheer volume of messages that fill our inboxes every day, but many of us have jobs and relationships that rely on email and would be unthinkably more difficult without it.

Happily, your iPad knows all about this email business and can be configured to work with just about any email account. With your iPad set up to send and receive email, you’re free to leave your desk and handle all your email tasks in a more comfortable place. Sure, you might be doing that already with your smartphone, but the iPad’s big screen makes those email chores much easier and more pleasurable. ...