Hands on with iOS 4's Mail features

In the time since the first iPhone was released, I've been one of Mobile Mail's Alias Seasons 1-5 DVD boxset and its biggest critics. I'm a fan because, for an e-mail client on a mobile phone, Mail is Arrested Development Seasons 1-3 DVD boxset usable. But I'm a critic because, as good as Mail is, it's long had a number of glaring feature As Time Goes By Seasons 1-9 DVD boxset that hamper its usefulness, and some of my biggest wishes for iOS 4 included filling those holes.

So I was understandably excited that Mail Battlestar Galactica Seasons 1-4 DVD boxset received prominent mention during Apple's preview of iOS 4 this spring. Now that iOS 4 is here, it's time to take a look at the major Buffy the Vampire Slayer Seasons 1-7 DVD boxset and new features in iPhone Mail.

Inbox options

Easily the most-requested feature for iPhone Mail (or at least the one I've Alias DVD the most over the past few years) has been a unified inbox--a single inbox that displays incoming Arrested Development DVD from all your accounts. Mail in iOS 4 provides just that: The top level of the Mail-screen hierarchy continues to display a list of your Mail As Time Goes By DVD, but above that you'll now find a new Inboxes section.

Tap the new All Inboxes item to see a list, Battlestar Galactica DVD by date and time, of all the e-mail messages in the inboxes of all your mail accounts. Once you're in this list, you work with messages just as you would if you had Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD to a specific inbox. It's a welcome change, and one that will dramatically reduce the number of Alias DVD set required by those anyone with multiple e-mail accounts.

On the other hand--that's a nice set of teeth you have there, Arrested Development DVD set--a day or so using this new feature reveals a few puzzling omissions. For example, when browsing All Inboxes, there's no way to tell which As Time Goes By DVD set received a particular message. And if, like me, you've set up an e-mail account to handle messages from mailing Battlestar Galactica DVD set, places you've shopped online, and other "bulk" mail, you'll quickly wish there was a way to disable a particular Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD set in the All Inboxes display.

Below All Inboxes, but still in the Inboxes Alias DVD boxset, you'll see your individual e-mail accounts. These items provide quick access to just the inbox for each account, letting you switch between individual Arrested Development DVD boxset without having to navigate down and up each account's hierarchical screens. This is a significant improvement that makes it easier to As Time Goes By DVD boxset the inability to disable accounts in All Inboxes.

When you want to navigate a particular account's list of Battlestar Galactica DVD boxset, you can use the Accounts section, now below the Inboxes section at the top level of Mail.

Multiple Exchange accounts

Speaking of multiple accounts, for people who need to access multiple Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD boxset Exchange-hosted (ActiveSync) accounts--or who want to set up one or more Gmail accounts using ActiveSync, or even a Alias Seasons 1-5 DVD boxset of Exchange and other ActiveSync accounts--perhaps iOS 4 Mail's most-welcome new feature is support for multiple Arrested Development Seasons 1-3 DVD boxset accounts.

In previous versions of iPhone Mail, attempting to set up a second As Time Goes By Seasons 1-9 DVD boxset account resulted in an error. Under iOS 4, it's as easy to set up multiple Battlestar Galactica Seasons 1-4 DVD boxset accounts as it is to set up any other type of e-mail account.

Threaded discussions

Like many other desktop and Web-based e-mail clients, Mail in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Seasons 1-7 DVD boxset offers a way to automatically group messages that are part of the same exchange or discussion. Mail on the Alias DVD gains such a feature in iOS 4.

When you receive a message in reply to a Arrested Development DVD message that's still in your inbox, all the messages in the conversation are grouped into a single entry. This message displays a small numeric badge As Time Goes By DVD how many messages are in the thread, as shown in the screenshot to the right. Tap this discussion item and, instead of viewing the Battlestar Galactica DVD of the previewed message, you see a list of all the messages in that conversation (or at least all that remain in your inbox--if you previously filed older messages Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD, they won't appear here).

When viewing a discussion, the top of the message list shows the Alias DVD set line of the first message in the conversation, along with the date of the most-recent message. Tap any message preview to view that Arrested Development DVD set; tap the left-facing arrow at the top of the screen to return to your inbox. (Behaviorly, this feature is as if you created a new As Time Goes By DVD set containing just the messages in the discussion.)

The threaded-discussion feature also works with Battlestar Galactica DVD set filed into other mailboxes; however, a grouped message thread includes only messages residing in the same mailbox.

If, for some reason, you don't like this new Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD set, you can turn it off for all accounts--it's an all-or-nothing setting--using the new Organize By Thread setting in the Mail, Alias DVD boxset, Calendars screen of the Settings app.

More options for viewing attachments

One of the most frustrating e-mail-related Arrested Development DVD boxset of the iPhone has been that while you can preview many types of attachments, there's been no way to open and edit those As Time Goes By DVD boxset. With the iPad, Apple included a new feature for opening attachments in other apps, including third-party apps. That feature is now available on the Battlestar Galactica DVD boxset as well, and while it's not as useful as being able to save documents to a common storage area for Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD boxset by any app, it's a big step forward.

When you receive an e-mail message with an Alias Seasons 1-5 DVD boxset, tapping that attachment's icon will, as before, display a preview of the document. But if you tap and hold, Mail presents additional Arrested Development Seasons 1-3 DVD boxset. The first is always Quick Look, which gives you the same preview as if you'd simply tapped the attachment's icon. Next is Open in [app name], which lets you open the As Time Goes By Seasons 1-9 DVD boxset in the installed iPhone app that's presented itself as the Battlestar Galactica Seasons 1-4 DVD boxset app for that type of file.

The third option is Open In, which lets you choose from Buffy the Vampire Slayer Seasons 1-7 DVD boxset all the apps on your phone that claim (to the OS) that they're able to open that type of file. Of course, which options you get--the preferred app and the Alias DVD that appear when you tap Open In--depend on which apps you've installed on your iPhone. In Arrested Development DVD, each app may handle such attachments differently: In some, the file may automatically be saved to that app's file-storage area; others may require you to As Time Goes By DVD save attachments if you want to be able to access them later.

While this feature generally works well, I often Battlestar Galactica DVD that an app that should be able to open a particular attachment--for example, GoodReader for a PDF--doesn't appear in the list of Open In Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD. Along with other Macworld editors, I also experienced an issue where the first page of a PDF document displays Alias DVD set, in the body of a message, with no way to Arrested Development DVD set the rest of the document--the document never appears as a tappable attachment icon.