Dec
22
The iPhone’s mail program is solid for quick reading and replying or deleting of messages. It also does a very good job of reading a variety of attachments. However, it is a bit simplistic in some of its features. The one missing feature that bothers me the most is the ability to flag messages. Mail programs mark messages as read as soon as you open then; “read” messages can just as easily be “skimmed”. I like to be able to flag messages that I find important that I want to get back to later. That I can’t flag messages requires me to leave messages read or mark them unread again, neither of which are optimal solutions.
Another thing that bothers me about the iPhone’s mail program is its search. I’m glad Apple added a search feature so that we can find what we’re looking for; however, the search is limited to finding and reading messages. What if I am searching for messages to bulk move them? What if I am searching for messages so I can delete them? The iPhone mail program doesn’t let me do these things, requiring me to wait until I get back to my computer unless I want to manually search for each message.
The iPhone’s mail program is adequate for retrieving and quickly replying to messages. However, when something comes that you want to save for later, you have to work around its limitations of not being able to flag messages. There are also other limitations such as not being able to move messages between accounts. It’s a decent app and I’m not going to stop using it (I don’t think I have much of a choice), but it could be improved.
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