Mail App

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.