In iOS 13 and iPadOS 13, Apple's Mail app retains the swipe gestures of previous iOS versions that help you reduce the amount of time you spend managing messages in your inbox.
The basic inbox gestures still involve swiping right or left on an email to reveal tappable actions that you can perform instantly, without having to call up additional menus.
One of the default options that appear is the Flag action, which you might use to categorize a message that requests information needed by a certain date, for example.
Using only the swipe gesture, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the Mail app provides only one color to use when flagging emails, but iOS 13 actually introduces support for multicolor flags – it's just hidden away in the menu that appears when you hit the Reply button.
Tap the Flag button there, and you'll reveal a submenu that allows you to choose one of seven colors, including the option to remove a flag. Note that whichever color you select here subsequently becomes the default color when you tap the Flag action or the More -> Mark... option via the inbox swipe gesture.
Did you know that you can customize the actions that appear when you use the Mail app's inbox gestures? Click here to learn how.
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Two more things come to mind: the AA icon in Safari hiding everything from desktop view to content blockers. Maybe it’s just me but that icon implies font sizes to me.
also really hidden is the drawing tool on images. Literally no one I know even knows about it existence.
Of course the iPad gestures over the years take the cake
Those icons (Reply, Reply All, Forward and Delete) are there ... right at the top of the share sheet. Are you even using iOS13/13.1.1? Better yet: Are you using an Exchange/ActiveSync supported account or iCloud? What you imply is Apple fully screwing over thousands of Business clients that got ActiveSync support since iOS3.x ~ that would be a VERY idiotic move of them.
That said ... I have to ask who the hell is in charge of end user UI in iOS13 at Apple? How can SOOO many inconsistencies be overlooked, ignored, or even missed? The care in polish is lacking ... as if kids of university that grew up on Slack have NEVER USED email.
PS: Will all those social media registration (register with Google/FB and now with Apple), collaborative chat based app/ui (Slack, and now Box, etc) they all collectively nor individually have fully replaced email use in ANY business Corporate/Incorporate regardless of the size. fascinating.
I think he's saying why are basic mail functions now buried under a submenu? See below from iDB from iOS12 look
What was wrong with the action buttons across the bottom of the email (flag, move, delete and THEN an action button for "more") window like they used to be and is intuitive to have the functions for that email right there?
And why is there now a trash icon and then in the submenu a trash icon again (to the right of reply/reply all/delete in the submenu)? Lol. It's SUCH a mess whoever designed this.
This app was not redesigned by someone who is a heavy email user. They tried to make it more minimalistic which wasn't needed or asked for
I honestly thought would be able to filter emails create rules directly from iOS. Seems they missed giving us that feature.
Yup - and I feel like there was rumours of ‘smart’ mailbox features coming. Kind of like what a lot of other mail apps have been adding for triaging mail items.
Apple design is astounding stupid here. We should have icons for common functions on a mail message. We do have delete and move. We also have an icon for reply, another very common function. But it doesn’t reply. Nope. Rather it hides a bunch of features including reply. Why on earth would they not have a reply, reply all, and forward icon? There are well established icons for those functions. In fact those icons do show on the sheet when you touch the reply icon. So the reply icon has two meanings on a mail message. I don’t know much about design theory but this certainly is at odds with the most common of sense.
And it’s not like they don’t have space for it. Look at the bottom of an email (screenshot attached)
Why not have a few icons like reply, reply all, forward, flag, and then maybe usual 3 dots for more options (basically what the current reply arrow is showing).
