[vip_students] Ten tips for emailing with the IPhone!
- From: "[NCBI] Support" <support@xxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 11:07:48 +0100
We all need as much help as we can get with email, and that's why
we're offering up a slew of tricks to help master the Mail app on your
iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. With ten tips ranging from having more
emails be visible and stored on the device, to bulk management, to
replying smarter, moving recipients around quickly, the quickest way
to access drafts and add attachments to a message, and using Siri to
compose complete emails, you're sure to become more efficient working
with emails in the iOS Mail app while you're on the go.
1: Move Email Addresses to Different Recipient Fields (To, CC, BCC)
Decide at the last minute you want to blind carbon copy someone
instead? No biggie, just do this:
Tap and hold on an email address or contact name, and then drag it
between TO, CC, BCC
Of course, you can move addresses to any of the fields, from BCC to
CC, TO to CC, whatever. Beats typing out an address again, doesn't it?
2: Show More Emails in Inbox
Want to have more emails be immediately visible in the inbox, without
having to retrieve them from a remote mail server? This is the setting
for you, it will keep more emails stored on the device, letting you
see more directly on the iPhone, iPad, or iPod:
Go to Settings then to "Mail, Calendar, Contacts"
Tap "Show" and choose "100 Recent Messages" or higher
The default setting is "50 Recent Messages", which means that 50 mail
messages will be visible in the inbox by default, and scrolling beyond
that must access the remote mail server to retrieve another 50.
Changing this setting is very helpful if you wrangle a huge inbox,
though the higher settings (500-1000 messages) can have some
undesirable side effects of slowing down Mail app on older devices, and
even increasing that "Other"
space that shows up in iTunes.
3: See More Emails Per Mail Screen
This setting displays more emails per screen in Mail app by adjusting
the message body preview size. The default is set to 2 lines, but by
moving it to 1 line or None, you can see many more emails instantly
without having to scroll at all:
In Settings, go to "Mail, Calendar, Contacts" and choose "Preview"
Tap on "None" or "1 Line" to show more emails on each mail screen
Notice how this differs from the previous tip, in that more emails are
visible on each mail screen, but it has no impact on the total number
of emails shown in an inbox without accessing the server again.
4: Quickly Access All Saved Drafts
There is a super quick way to access saved email drafts in iOS:
Tap and hold on the Compose icon to jump to the Drafts folder
This accesses all drafts, whether they were created and saved on the
iPhone or iPad, or on a remote server or webmail client like Gmail.
This very handy feature was introduced a while ago and retains full
functionality in Mail app for iOS 7. Use it, you'll appreciate it!
5: Bulk Manage Groups of Emails: Mark as Read, Unread, Delete Managing
a group of multiple emails is easy in iOS Mail app, but it may not be
immediately obvious to all users:
From the mailbox you want to adjust, tap on "Edit" then tap each mail
message you want to adjust so that it's highlighted with a checkmark
Tap on "Move" to send the emails to the Trash for bulk deleting, or to
another inbox Tap on "Mark" to flag the emails as spam, or mark as
read or unread
This is very helpful if you've gotten a barrage of messages that are
either unimportant or just need to mark as read, or when you need to
Trash a bunch of them that are clogging up your inbox.
6: Increase Font Size to Read Email Content Easier The text size of
emails is pretty small by default, and even those of us with
moderately decent eyesight can have a hard time reading through long
messages at such a tiny font size. Fortunately, it's really easy to
increase the size of the email text to something much more legible:
Open Settings, then go to "General" and "Accessibility"
Tap on "Large Text" (iOS 6) or "Larger Type" (iOS 7) and choose a size
better for your needs
Something to consider with this option is that it will also increase
the font size shown in text messages and iMessages within Messages
app, which is actually really nice and makes those messages much easier to
read as well.
7: Reply to Portion of Email with Smart Quotes Smart Quotes are a
little-used feature of iOS Mail app that let you reply to just a
specific portion of an email, and they're very easy to use:
Tap and select any portion of an email to include in the reply, then
tap the "Reply" button as usual
The new email message will now only contain the portion of the email
you selected, rather than the entire thing.
8: Ditch or Modify the "Sent from my iPhone" Signature The default
signature for emails sent from any iOS device identifies that device
as "Sent from my iPhone" or "Sent from my iPad". If you want to change
it or delete it, it's quite simple:
Open Settings, then go to "Mail, Contacts, Calendars"
Tap on "Signature" to modify or delete it
We generally recommend keeping these signatures for a variety of
reasons, including the brevity expectation, but if you want to delete
it or modify it, it's easy enough to change back.
9: Insert Pictures Into Emails Faster with a Tap You can easily insert
a picture or two into an email message just by doing the following:
Tap and hold in the message body, and choose "Insert Photo or Video"
to find the picture or movie to attach
Images can be inserted anywhere into email messages this way, and it's
much much easier than poking around in the Photos app to create a new
email from there, or using the copy and paste method to place images into
emails.
10: Compose & Send a Quick Email with Siri Don't want to type out an
email message, or maybe you're hands are busy?
Siri can write it for you using a simple mail composition command:
Summon Siri and say "Write an email to [recipient name] about
[subject] and say [message body]
This is really helpful in situations where your hands need to be
mostly free and you can't spend time looking at your iPhone or iPad
screen, whether that's because you're just occupied doing something
else, riding a bike, walking, or maybe you just hate typing on the touch
screens.
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