Email Tips

How to edit Inbox order on your iPhone and iPad

By Allyson Kazmucha, Wednesday, Dec 19, 2012 a 1:19 pm

If you've got several emails set up on your iPhone or iPad, you'll most likely want the ones you check most towards the top of your Inbox list. As of iOS 6 this is now possible. If you want your work email listed before your personal email, you can change the order in just a few taps.

Here's how:

How to set up Outlook.com email on your iPhone or iPad

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Jul 31, 2012 a 10:54 pm

Microsoft has released Outlook.com, what they consider to be the next-generation of email. And much to their credit, Microsoft have gone above and beyond to make sure you can access it not only on the web, but from any and all of your devices, including the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.

Here's how.

How to call, message, and email your contacts using Siri

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 a 1:25 am

Siri isn't just another voice control system, it remembers context and it can understand relationships. That means, for example, you can tell Siri to call your wife's iPhone, and Siri will know who that is and which phone number to dial.

Daily Tip: How to set up safe iPad or iPod touch email for your child

By Anthony#IM, Wednesday, Nov 30, 2011 a 12:27 am

Thinking about getting your child an iPad or iPod touch and wondering how to safely give them limited email access on iOS? Email is a handy way to share things like pictures they've taken with the Camera app. I've chosen to use Hotmail (Windows Live) for my kids because of the level of parental control they provide. Here's how I've set things up.

Daily Tip: How to change the amount of lines shown in an email preview

By chrisoldroyd, Tuesday, Nov 22, 2011 a 12:16 am

Curious how to change the amount of lines shown on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch email preview? If you get a lot of email, it is really handy to see a preview of the first few lines to know if it is important enough to read and deal with. If you're concerned about privacy, you may prefer to display nothing at all. Out of the box, the iPhone and iPad only show the first two lines of text from an email but that can be changed to show much more, or nothing at all.

PSA: Sharing iPhone 4S contacts also shares Siri relationships

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Nov 21, 2011 a 5:41 pm

Just a heads up -- if you send a contact via your iPhone 4S' built in sharing feature, you also share everything in that contact, including relationships set up by [http://www.imore.com/siri). For many this may not be a big deal, but if you value your privacy or you don't particularly want or need a business partner, for example, knowing who your mom is or that playful nickname you have for your girlfriend, you might want to think twice before sharing an entire contact card in the future.

Daily Tip: How to set up a free iCloud account with iOS 5

By chrisoldroyd, Tuesday, Nov 15, 2011 a 9:30 pm

New to iPhone, iPad touch, or iPad and curious how to set up one of Apple's new, free iCloud accounts? Not only is iCloud great for email, calendar, and contacts, it also lets you backup your important settings and information. Luckily, creating a new iCloud account is a very simple process.

Daily Tip: How to mark multiple emails as read in iOS 5

By Andrew Wray, Tuesday, Oct 25, 2011 a 1:05 am

Have a ton of unreal messages and wondering how to just declare email bankruptcy and mark them all as read? iOS 5 still doesn't give you that magical "mark all" button but it does let you mark multiple messages as read in the Mail app, which can help save a lot of time when you're crunching through emails on-the-go.

How to save a video with iOS 5 on iPhone or iPad

By Georgia, Saturday, Oct 22, 2011 a 11:05 am

Wondering how to save video attachments you get in Email to your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad camera roll? In previous versions of iOS, while you could easily tap-and-hold to save pictures in Mail, Safari, Messages and other built-in-apps, trying to do the same with movies -- movies mailed or messaged from other iPhones and iPads! -- did nothing. (Except frustrate me. Seriously. I almost dented my iPhone trying!)

iOS 5 changes that. Now, just like with pictures, all you have to do to save a video is:

Open the email, messages, etc. that you received the movie in
Tap on the icon or preview and hold on it
When the Save Video button pops up, Tap it!

That's it. The video will now be saved to your Camera Roll for you to use as you so wish.

Daily Tip: How to create text shortcuts in iOS 5

By Leanna Lofte, Tuesday, Oct 18, 2011 a 6:42 pm

Tired of typing out long words, names, and sentences and wondering how to create text shortcuts? Lucky you! One of the new features of iOS 5 is the ability to do just that. For example, instead of typing out "On my way!", you just type "omw" and the iPhone automatically changes the acronym to the full phrase. This phrase is actually the only shortcut that comes setup with iOS 5. To find out how to add your own, follow along!