There are three inevitabilities in life: dying, taxes, and tech platforms making design modifications which can be universally disliked. The newest sufferer to this phenomenon is the Apple Mail app, which received a significant redesign in iOS 18. This replace can also be rolling out on iPads and MacBooks.
The new Apple Mail design separates emails into classes, like Primary, Transactions, Updates, and Promotions. It additionally offers contact pictures to every sender, which aligns with the corporate’s new branding options for companies throughout the iOS ecosystem.
While some customers discover the redesign visually unappealing and troublesome to navigate, others discover that they’re extra more likely to miss essential messages, which is understandably not best.
Across social media, beleaguered iOS customers have described this replace as “fully unreliable,” “indecipherable,” and “so ugly.” Some have gone so far as to want the app’s UX designers would “poop hedgehogs.”
Thankfully, there’s a solution to flip off these updates with out manifesting this unthinkable rectal ache into the world.
- First, open your Mail app on iOS 18.
- Locate the three-dot menu within the higher proper nook of your display screen.
- From there, choose “List View” as an alternative of “Categories” as your show.
While this at the least returns your inbox to no matter setup you had earlier than, there’s nonetheless a number of visible litter, since contact pictures nonetheless seem within the app. This could also be handy while you’re texting through Messages since you most likely have contact pictures in your family and friends. But in your mail inbox, it doesn’t actually assist to see somewhat yellow procuring bag subsequent to each single e-mail from a retailer — particularly since a number of tech blogs and newsletters I subscribe to get flagged with the identical icon as H&M or Anthropologie, that are ostensibly a special form of enterprise.
To do away with the contact pictures in your iOS Mail app, observe these steps.
- Open up the Settings app in your iPhone.
- Scroll to the underside of the display screen, the place you will notice a bit known as Apps.
- From the Apps menu, scroll till you discover the Mail app (or simply sort Mail into the search bar to save lots of your self a strong 5 seconds — life is brief).
- Under the part labeled Message List, toggle off the choice that reads Show Contact Photos.
At final, your Mail app is free from litter — effectively, aside from these promotional emails from H&M and Anthropologie that you just don’t actually open anyway. Maybe it’s time to unsubscribe from a bunch of mailing lists? You’re by yourself for that one.
