iPhone For Dummies, 2024 Edition

Chapter 10

The Email Must Get Through

IN THIS CHAPTER

Setting up your email accounts

Reading and managing email messages

Sending email messages

Your iPhone’s built-in Mail app can send and receive both text email messages and fully formatted messages including graphics. The Mail app works with most popular email providers with a minimal amount of setup and with other email providers with just a little more work.

Mail enables you to use a unified inbox that gathers messages from all the email accounts you have set up. You can organize messages by thread, or conversation, for quick and easy reading. You can mark important senders as VIPs for special treatment. And through the Continuity and Handoff features, you can start writing an email on your iPhone, continue it on your iPad, and finish it on your Mac.

Prep Work: Setting Up Your Accounts

To use Mail, you need to add your email accounts to your iPhone. If you signed in to iCloud when setting up your iPhone, iOS automatically added your iCloud account to the iPhone, and your iCloud email account should already be set up and functional, unless you've disabled it. You can add other accounts as needed.

Checking that your iCloud ...