Mail app mailboxes on our iPhone give a lot of themselves. So we can customize them

The Mail app on our iPhone or iPad is where we receive mail, send it—with the curious signature of Sent from My iPhone—and, most importantly, manage the messages we’ve saved. Stored in several mailboxes that allow us to place some order, these “folders” for our messaging are the soul of the application.

Therefore, customizing the mailboxes we see, adding new ones, rearranging and organizing them is essential for us to effectively manage our email. This without going into smart mailboxes that organize mail for us and which, if we already know the Mac, can be even more useful on the iPhone.

Our mailboxes as useful as they are to us

Let’s start with the basics, how to show and hide mailboxes. And be careful here, because we can add those from any email account that we have configured and also, make visible the smart mailboxes that the application makes available to us. In addition, we can hide the mailboxes that we do not always need to have in view. Showing or hiding mailboxes is very simple, here are the steps to follow:

1. We open the Mail application on our iPhone or iPad.
2. On the iPhone, if necessary, we touch the button < Mailboxes at the top left to see the list of mailboxes.
3. we touch the button Edit.
4. We activate or deactivate those that interest us.
5. we play ALL RIGHT.

Special mention to smart mailboxes Unread, Attachments or even Hoy. Let’s also look at the button add mailbox this allows us to make visible on the first page the internal mailboxes of the accounts that we have configured in the Mail application.

Once we’ve shown and hidden the mailboxes to customize which ones appear, the next thing to do is we can do is rearrange them. It may seem like a minor detail, but having in view the mailboxes we use the most or grouping some of them together will help us to organize ourselves better. The steps to do this are as follows:

1. We open the Mail app on our iPhone or iPad.
2. On the iPhone, if necessary, we touch the button < Mailboxes at the top left to see the list of mailboxes.
3. we touch the button Edit.
4. We use the handles on the right to drag the mailboxes in the order we consider.
5. we play ALL RIGHT.

Finally, let’s discuss how add new mailboxes in which to save our emails to keep them in order. A very simple process that too often we overlook, causing us to unnecessarily clutter the Archived folder or entry. Creating new mailboxes is as easy as following these steps:

1. We open the Mail application on our iPhone or iPad.
2. On the iPhone, if necessary, we touch the button < Mailboxes at the top left to see the list of mailboxes.
3. we touch the button Edit.
4. we play in new mailbox.
5. We write the name of the mailbox.
6. We touch “Mailbox location” and choose in which account and in which other mailboxes we want to place it.
7. we play to safeguard.

As we started by saying, Mail app mailboxes offer a lot more play than meets the eye. Thanks to the possibility of making disappear those that we do not use, adding new mailboxes, smart mailboxes and displaying certain folders in favorites and being able to order everything as we wish, we will organize better. No question of being saturated by emails, everything in its place and every location available to us to access whenever we need it.

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