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Check your email in Mail on iPhone

In the Mail app , you can read emails, add contacts, and preview some of the contents of an email without opening it.

The Mail Inbox, showing a list of emails.

Read an email

In the inbox, tap the email you want to read.

Use Remind Me to come back to emails later

If you don’t have time to handle an email right away, you can set a time and date to receive a reminder and bring a message back to the top of your inbox.

Tap the Reply button, tap Remind Me, then choose when to be reminded.

Preview an email and a list of options

If you want to see what an email is about but not open it completely, you can preview it. In the inbox, touch and hold an email to preview its contents and see a list of options for replying, filing it, and more. See Perform quick actions on iPhone.

Show a longer preview for every email

In your inbox, Mail displays two lines of text for each email by default. You can choose to see more lines of text without opening the email.

Go to Settings  > Mail > Preview, then choose up to five lines.

Show the whole conversation

Go to Settings  > Mail, then turn on Organize by Thread.

Tip: You can also change other settings in Settings > Mail—such as Collapse Read Messages or Most Recent Message on Top.

Show To and Cc labels in your Inbox

Go to Settings  > Mail, then turn on Show To/Cc Labels (below Message List).

You can also view the To/Cc mailbox, which gathers all mail addressed to you. To show or hide it, tap the Back button in the upper-left corner of the Mail app until you see Mailboxes, tap Edit, then select “To or Cc.”

Add someone to your contacts or make them a VIP

You can save someone to your contacts to easily find their email again in the future, or make them a VIP so any email you receive from them is automatically starred. In an email, tap a person’s name or email address, then do one of the following:

  • Add to your contacts: Tap Create New Contact or Add to Existing Contact.

    You can add a phone number, other email addresses, and more.

  • Add to your VIP list: Tap Add to VIP.

See alsoSend emailReply to and forward emailsAdd and remove email accounts
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