Email

How to rename email accounts in the Mail app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

When you go to the Mailboxes screen of the Apple Mail app, you'll see all the email accounts you added from various services like iCloud, Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, etc. You can rename these account names to make each of them easier to identify and tell apart from the others. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to do that on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

How to disable email Follow Up suggestions in the Mail app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Follow up banner in the Mail app on iPhone

Have you noticed the Follow Up banner at the top of the Mail app and wonder what it is?

After you send an email and don't hear back from the recipient for a while, the Mail app on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac shows a banner on the top of that sent email reminding you to follow up on it.

If you don't want this option to appear in the Mail app, we'll show you how to turn it off.

How to show link previews by inserting rich links in the Mail app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Two iPhone mockups with one showing plain, blue links in the iOS Mail app and the other mockup showing rich links with URL title, site name, and image preview in the iOS 16 Mail app

The Mail app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac in iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura supports adding rich links. These rich links with the page title, site name, and image provide more context at a glance. For example, it lets the receiver understand what the link is about only by seeing the title and image inside the email.

In this brief tutorial, we show you how to show the link preview by inserting rich web links to your emails sent via the Mail app. The entire process is very simple.

How to get reminded about an email on iPhone, iPad, and Mac in iOS 16 and macOS Ventura

Remind Me in the Mail app on iPhone in iOS 16

The Mail app in iOS 16 and macOS Ventura has a built-in reminder feature that will notify you to attend to that email in an hour, tonight, tomorrow, or at a custom date and time. Plus, it will resurface that email to the top of your inbox for easy visibility.

Let me tell you why this new Remind Me feature is helpful and how to use it so that you don't miss replying to or attending to an important opened email.

How to Undo Send or recall a sent email on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Undo Send Email on iPhone

Sometimes you might send an email and quickly want to recall it because you forgot to add the attachment, made a typo, or for various other reason. Earlier, you had to rely on third-party mail apps like Spark to unsend an email.

Thankfully with iOS 16 and macOS Ventura, the Mail app will notify you if you forget to add the recipient, the attachment, or an important part of your email. Secondly, the Mail app now lets you undo send an email before it reaches the recipient's inbox. So, immediately after sending a wrong email, there is no need to regret it; instead, you can recall the email, fix it, and resend it. Or you can just delete it.

Here's how to unsend an email from the built-in Apple Mail app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac running iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS 13 Ventura.