Apple launched iOS 18.4 in March, and the update delivered several new emoji to all iPhones. However, in December, Apple released iOS 18.2, which included a new feature in your Mail app called Categories that allows you to classify incoming emails into multiple categories.
“The Mail app automatically sorts your email messages into categories to help you find and manage messages quicker,” Apple said on its website. However, you may restore your app to its pre-update appearance if you’re unhappy with the way Categories function in Mail.
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Learn about Mail Categories and how to disable the functionality to make your app seem as it did before to the upgrade.
Mail Categories: What Are They?
Gmail and Mail both include categories that are comparable. Primary, Transactions, Updates, and Promotions are the four categories into which the software sorts your emails.
Emails including receipts, order and delivery details, and other subscriptions, news, and social media fall into the Transactions category. As you may expect, promotions get emails with exclusive discounts and offers.
It’s a bit harder to define the Primary category. Primary, according to Apple’s app, is for “Messages that matter most.” My primary category was flooded with emails from my wife, customer support, and even refund details during the testing period of the revamped app, which I have been using ever since it released. It’s something of a catch-all group.
Can I alter the category of an email?
For the majority of messages, but not all, you can. Here’s how.
1. Press the Mail button.
2. Select a message by tapping the Transactions, Updates, or Promotions tabs at the top of Mail, but not Primary.
3. In the upper right corner, tap the three dots (…).
4. Select the Category option.
Messages from a certain sender may then be manually categorized into a different category. Sadly, all of a sender’s communications will be placed in the new category, which may be annoying.
I once placed a purchase for tickets to a performance at a nearby theater, and Promotions received the censored email. All emails from this venue, including ones about bargains and specials, now go to my Primary category, even though I moved the email containing the tickets to Primary. It’s irritating because you can’t go back to that classification.
It’s crucial to remember that you can easily reclassify an email from Promotions to Deals and back again. Primary emails are the only ones that cannot be reclassified.
How do I disable Mail’s categories?
Mail may be made to appear how it did before the change if you don’t like Mail Categories. Here’s how.
1. Press the Mail button.
2. In the app’s upper right corner, tap the three dots (…).
3. Select List View.
Now, when emails come in your inbox, they will appear in Mail from top to bottom.
You could have missed it, as I did, but there is also a Mail Category named All Mail that seems to combine the new categories with List View. All Mail may be found by navigating to Mail with Categories enabled and swiping the categories bar at the top of Mail to the left. When you tap this, all of your mail will appear in List View as it arrives in your inbox, but you will still see the Categories tabs at the top of Mail.