Among the many less-publicized options launched late final yr in iOS 18.2 is a large change to the Mail app. For longtime customers of the Mail app, it was a shock to the system and positively takes some getting used to. But when that hasn’t occurred, there’s excellent news—you may change it again to the previous means.
The brand new Mail app breaks the Inbox into a number of classes: Main, Transactions, Updates, and Promotions. The classes are pretty self-explanatory:
- Main: Private and different time-sensitive messages.
- Transactions: Purchases, receipts, and delivery messages.
- Updates: Newsletters, mailing lists, and social updates.
- Promotions: Coupons, gross sales bulletins, and spam that doesn’t land in junk.
When you begin utilizing iOS 18.2, the brand new Mail shall be on by default and messages will robotically start routing to their respective classes. Any folders will stay, after all, however your Mail expertise is certainly completely different.
For one, your Mail badge will solely present the rely for messages within the Main class, which suggests dozens of messages may go unread for hours and even days. And since every part is finished robotically, some essential messages would possibly get routed to the flawed class. Nevertheless, all time-sensitive messages will seem within the Main view even when they’ve been routed to different classes.
For those who don’t belief it or simply plain don’t prefer it, the excellent news is you may change it again to the previous means with little or no bother. In your inbox, faucet the three-dot menu on the top-right and also you’ll see an choice for Listing View. Faucet it and also you’ll return to the previous means of doing issues with a chronological inbox.
For now, the brand new Mail is just for the iPhone and iPad, however it’s coming quickly to the Mac in macOS 15.4.