iPad Email Essentials
How to Manage Mail Settings for iPad
There are all sorts of ways to customize your accounts and useful features that you can customize; what swipe actions do, style of flags displayed, your email signature, plus more!
iPad Email Essentials Topics Covered
Mail Settings
Preview Lines | Show To/Cc Labels | Change Swipe Options | Ask to Delete |
Notifications
Ask before deleting a message
Organize - Threads
Mark Addresses
Add Signature
Add attachment
Mail Settings - where to look
Launch the Settings app.
Scroll down in the Settings menu until you see Mail.
Tap on Accounts, tap on the email account you want to manage.
How to change preview lines?
Launch the Settings app.
Scroll down in the Settings menu until you see Mail.
Choose Preview and select the number of lines that will be displayed.
How to show To/CC Labels?
If who sent or who was copied on an email; hide it and expand when you want to see it, or make it visible immediately.
Launch the Settings app.
Scroll down in the Settings menu until you see Mail.
Tap the switch net to Show To/Cc Labels -turns green.
How to change Swipe options?
Swipe gestures from an iPad make it easy to review email, especially on the go.
Launch the Settings app.
Scroll down in the Settings menu until you see Mail.
Tap Swipe Options.
Tap Swipe Left or Swipe Right to adjust the slide options.
Tap Flag or Move Message to set the slide direction.
How to Ask Before Deleting an email?
Accidentally delete and email by tapping in the wrong place? iOS can ask before deleting a message.
Launch the Settings app.
Scroll down in the Settings menu until you see Mail.
Tap the switch next to Ask Before Deleting, turns green.
Threading Feature - organize emails
Organize, collapse read messages, only see the latest messages in a thread, and/ or see all of them, all the time, most recent message to top, there are options for all of these.
Launch the Settings app.
Scroll down in the Settings menu until you see Mail.
Tap the switch next to Complete Threads , turns green.
How to Mark Addresses
Ensure you're sending email from or to people at a specific domain. iOS can mark those addresses as a way to avoid mistakingly sending from or to the address or people.
Launch the Settings app.
Scroll down in the Settings menu until you see Mail.
Tap Mark Addresses.
How To Set Your Signature?
Launch the Settings app.
Scroll down in the Settings menu until you see Mail.
Tap Signature, add your new signature.
Notification When Someone Replies to Your Email Message
Launch the Settings app.
Tap on Notifications. Scroll up until you find Mail.
Tap on Mail.
Select the switch beside Allow Notifications.
The switch will turn from gray to green.
Additionally, You can choose to adjust and customize your notifications to add sounds, badges app icons, or to have notifications appear on your lock screen.
*Badges are small indicators that appear on the icons of apps.
How to add an attachment ?
To insert things into mail messages, press and hold an empty area of a message.
To insert things into mail messages, press and hold an empty area of a message.
From the toolbar, add photo or video from your Photo library.
From the toolbar, add files from iPad, Google Drive, and/or iCloud
