Try these quick troubleshooting solutions to resolve issues of the Mail app on your Mac not showing all of your Gmail emails.
Bug in iOS 16 Mail App Causes Instant Crashes
A bug recently discovered in iOS 16 Mail could lock you out of your inbox. The good news is a fix is already in the works.
How to Send an Email Later in iOS Mail
One key feature in Mail, beginning with iOS 16, is the ability to send an email later. Here’s how to take use this productivity hack.
iOS 15: How to Generate Email Aliases With ‘Hide My Email’
One of the privacy features coming with iOS 15 is called Hide My Email. It‘s part of iCloud+ and lets you use random email aliases.
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10 Features in macOS Catalina You Need to Know
MacMost has a good video on YouTube where he shares 10 macOS Catalina features. They’re smaller features that don’t get the same attention or shoutout by Apple, but they’re good to know. The first one he mentions is a feature that I noticed but was annoyed about. When you hover or long-click the green fullscreen button in Safari, it now brings up a menu window to enter full screen or tile the window to the left or right. While it makes this capability more obvious it also adds an extra step, when just dragging the window by the green button was faster. In any case the video is pretty helpful and you can watch it here.
Create an Email Filter for Your Bank So You Won't Miss Important Messages
David Murphy has a good tip: Create an email filter for your bank so you don’t miss important messages like fraud alerts.
Get specific when you set your filters, because you don’t want to accidentally drag in phishing emails that are attempting to pose as your bank. This shouldn’t be a problem if your email service is good about eradicating spam but, when in doubt, I’d probably try to set a combined filter for emails from your bank’s exact domain that contain the word “fraud,” rather than just a filter that catches subject lines with “your bank’s name” and “fraud.”
iOS Mail: What’s the Difference Between Push and Fetch?
If you’ve poked around in the Settings app, you may have noticed that Mail supports something called ‘Push’ and ‘Fetch.’
How to Always Insert Attachments at the End in macOS Mail
Today’s Quick Tip is about Apple Mail and how it (somewhat frustratingly) handles attachments. If you don’t like them dropping into the middle of your messages, come read about how to push them to the end!
How to Empty the Trash in Outlook for Mac
If you use Outlook on your Mac instead of Apple Mail, then it’s important for you to know that the program doesn’t empty its trash automatically. If you’d like to clear out old stuff within Outlook, then, come read this Quick Tip! We’ll give you plenty of options on how to do so.
How to Protect Yourself from the Efail Encrypted Email Security Flaw
If you’re using S/MIME, PGP, or GPG encryption for messages in Apple’s Mail app or other email client apps, you could be susceptible to what’s being called Efail. You can protect your messages until app updates addressing the flaw are released, and it’s easy to do.