Take Control of Apple Mail, 5th Edition

Learn What’s New in Mail

The versions of Mail in Monterey, Big Sur, Catalina, Mojave, and iOS 14/iPadOS 14 and later contain new features and design changes compared to earlier versions. Skim this chapter to see which of these may be important to you. But first, please indulge me in a brief rant.

Mail’s Disappearing Features

With each new version of macOS, Apple adds some things to Mail and changes some things. More often than not, Apple also removes useful features—often for no apparent reason. Losing the occasional minor feature is usually no big deal, but the cumulative effect over many years has been to sap Mail of much of its power and flexibility. Just a few of many examples:

• In 11.0 Big Sur, some unified mailboxes disappeared from ...