iOS 18.2: Apple’s new Mail app gets biggest redesign ever

Apple’s revamped Mail app in iOS 18.2 offers a fresh look and feel. While the mailbox screen remains familiar, opening an inbox reveals significant visual and functional updates.

Ryan Christoffel for 9to5Mac:
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Aesthetically, Apple is now emphasizing contact photos for senders as part of your inbox. Where you used to just see a bunch of text, now there’s color and imagery to go with it. Basically, emails in your inbox look a lot like threads in the Messages app, with a contact photo on the left.

More significant than the addition of contact photos, iOS 18.2 also brings a fundamental change to how your inbox works.
Apple Mail now automatically divides your inbox into four categories [Primary, Transactions, Updates, and Promotions]…

I’ve really enjoyed using the new Mail app in the iOS 18.2 beta, but I’m also glad Apple has provided tools to disable many of the changes if they don’t quite work for you. Now that Mail has been redesigned for iPhone, though, I’m ready to see these changes come to the iPad and Mac as well.

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MacDailyNews Take: It looks better and will likely work better for the vast majority of users, as well.

Interns: Do you duty. Prost, everyone!

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