Miss the outdated Apple Mail app look? This is the best way to get it again

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iOS 18.2 adjustments the look of the Mail app, however you possibly can simply revert to the outdated design by following easy steps.
By altering the mail app again to Checklist View, and disabling Present Precedence, it should look extra just like the old-style.
Apple will introduce an choice to disable contact images 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 members of the family and associates had additionally downloaded the replace, as I abruptly obtained a flood of messages asking, “How do I repair the mail app?” Upon putting in iOS 18.2 on my iPhone, I observed the brand new look of the Mail app in about 10 seconds flat and instantly switched it again to the outdated design — and I have never regarded again.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 type your email inbox for you. Whereas these additions could show useful to some, they don’t seem to be significantly my cup of tea, as I choose sorting my e-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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How one can repair Apple’s Mail app

Get the old-style again in seconds

Apple Mail app revert back to old style.

Fortuitously, Apple has made it very simple to revert the Mail app to its earlier look. Simply observe these simple steps.

1. Open Apple’s Mail app.

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

3. Choose Checklist View.

4. Uncheck Present Precedence (it will solely pop up when you have Apple Intelligence).

By switching your Mail app to Checklist View, it should resemble its format earlier than iOS 18.2 by eliminating the e-mail classes Apple added. Unchecking Present Precedence may also disable Apple Intelligence’s AI-powered e-mail sorting characteristic.

Sadly, the one facet 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, they usually do not even show the logos of the web sites from which you are receiving emails. As an illustration, when you’re subscribed to any of Pocket-lint’s newsletters (which I highly recommend, by the way in which), it will not even present Pocket-lint’s brand 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 relating to icons within the Mail app, and with iOS 18.5, it should provide a further choice to disable contact images proper from the Mail app. iOS 18.5 is at the moment in developer beta and is predicted to launch within the coming months, probably by the top of Could. For those who do not need to wait till then, there may be an choice obtainable within the Settings app to disable them. This is how.

1. Go to Settings.

2. Choose Apps.

3. Select Mail.

4. Disable Present Contact Checklist.