iOS 767: Mastering Mail - Reduce your email headaches on iOS!
iOS Today (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.1 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Ready to conquer your cluttered inbox? Discover the unsung tricks, automation tools, and next-level email clients that can actually make email work for you, no matter how many unread messages you're hiding.
- iOS Mail app walkthrough: categories, filters, unmatched features
- Tips for managing mail with filtering, VIPs, and privacy options
- Undo Send, reminders, and key Mail settings for better management
- Fastmail, rule-based headless filters, and automation
- Spark email client deep dive: pros, cons, and why it sticks
- The feature race: mail rules, snoozes, and why client choice matters
- Feedback: Soundcheck in iTunes/Apple Music and why volume normalization fails
- Shortcuts Corner: NFC tags and logging medications via automation and Capsule app
- App Caps: Notify for website change alerts, NetNewsWire for RSS news aggregation
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on iOS today, Rosemary Orchard and I, Micah Sargent, talk about email. |
| 0:06.0 | Yeah, that's right. Have you checked yours today? |
| 0:11.0 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:13.0 | From people you trust. |
| 0:15.0 | This is Twit. |
| 0:17.0 | This is iOS Today, episode 767, with Rosemary Orchard and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Tuesday, August 19th, 2025 for Thursday, August 28th, 2025. |
| 0:33.5 | Mastering Mail. |
| 0:35.7 | Hello and welcome to iOS today, the show where we talk all things, iOS, iPadOS, WatchOS, |
| 0:40.7 | HomePod OS, and more. |
| 0:42.9 | This is the show where we help you make the most of your Apple devices by talking about |
| 0:47.1 | the apps, the settings, the gadgets, the gizmos that you should be using or changing or |
| 0:52.1 | updating or whatevering to help you, you know, |
| 0:56.7 | have a better experience on those devices. |
| 0:59.5 | I am one of your hosts. |
| 1:00.8 | My name is Micah, Sergeant. |
| 1:04.0 | And my name is Rosemary Richard, and I'm hoping that we can help you manage your email, |
| 1:09.0 | whether that be on a macro or a microscale. |
| 1:12.3 | Indeed, yes. So, you know, it's not an incredibly popular topic. In fact, on a recent episode of |
| 1:20.5 | my podcast, clockwise, one of our guests asked us, what is something that exists on the web that should go away? It was |
| 1:33.1 | sort of in honor of dial-up ending in the U.S. And people had sort of jockey answers about, |
| 1:42.5 | well, the whole thing should go away, et cetera, et cetera. |
| 1:44.6 | I said email should die. |
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