Miss the previous Apple Mail app look? Here is how you can get it again

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iOS 18.2 modifications the look of the Mail app, however you possibly can simply revert to the previous design by following easy steps.
By altering the mail app again to Listing View, and disabling Present Precedence, it is going to look extra just like the old-style.
Apple will introduce an choice to disable contact photographs within the Mail app in iOS 18.5, however you possibly can disable them now within the Settings app.

When iOS 18.2 dropped, I shortly found that my relations and buddies had additionally downloaded the replace, as I all of a sudden obtained a flood of messages asking, “How do I repair the mail app?” Upon putting in iOS 18.2 on my iPhone, I seen the brand new look of the Mail app in about 10 seconds flat and instantly switched it again to the previous design — and I have not appeared again.

What’s all this fuss about precisely? Properly, with iOS 18.2, Apple added a brand new AI-powered precedence mailbox characteristic and new classes that assist kind your email inbox for you. Whereas these additions could show useful to some, they don’t seem to be notably my cup of tea, as I choose sorting my electronic mail inbox myself. Fortunately, if you wish to revert to the old-style and performance of Apple’s Mail app, you possibly can simply accomplish that.

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The right way to repair Apple’s Mail app

Get the old-style again in seconds

Apple Mail app revert back to old style.

Thankfully, Apple has made it very simple to revert the Mail app to its earlier look. Simply comply with these easy steps.

1. Open Apple’s Mail app.

2. Faucet the three dots within the high proper of your Inbox.

3. Choose Listing View.

4. Uncheck Present Precedence (this can solely pop up when you have Apple Intelligence).

By switching your Mail app to Listing View, it is going to resemble its structure earlier than iOS 18.2 by eliminating the e-mail classes Apple added. Unchecking Present Precedence can even disable Apple Intelligence’s AI-powered electronic mail sorting characteristic.

Sadly, the one side that does not disappear by adjusting these two settings is the brand new icons that Apple launched within the Mail app beside your emails. These new icons are boring and pointless, and so they do not even show the logos of the web sites from which you are receiving emails. For example, for those who’re subscribed to any of Pocket-lint’s newsletters (which I highly recommend, by the best way), it will not even present Pocket-lint’s emblem subsequent to the e-mail within the Mail app, which for me, considerably undermines the aim of getting icons within the Mail app. It is a bizarre design selection by Apple.

Apple has acknowledged the suggestions concerning icons within the Mail app, and with iOS 18.5, it is going to supply an extra choice to disable contact photographs proper from the Mail app. iOS 18.5 is presently in developer beta and is predicted to launch within the coming months, presumably by the tip of Might. When you do not need to wait till then, there may be an possibility accessible within the Settings app to disable them. Here is how.

1. Go to Settings.

2. Choose Apps.

3. Select Mail.

4. Disable Present Contact Listing.