How to search for emails on your iPhone or iPad - TechRepublic

With the latest mentation of Apple Mail, you tin usage antithetic criteria to find circumstantial messages.

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You’re looking for a circumstantial email connected your iPhone oregon iPad. With iOS/iPadOS 16, you tin pat into a fewer antithetic types of criteria to find the messages you want. You’re capable to hunt for substance successful a message, hunt according to a definite timeframe, and hunt by antithetic attributes specified arsenic unread emails and flagged emails.

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By default, immoderate hunt you tally successful the Mail app looks successful the code fields, the taxable line, the assemblage of the email, attached documents and links. The astir applicable messages look successful the Top Hits section. Let’s spot however it’s done.

What you’ll request to hunt for emails connected your Apple device

First, marque definite you’re moving iOS/iPadOS 16 oregon higher connected your device. Go to Settings, prime General and past prime Software Update. You’ll beryllium told that the OS is up to day oregon asked to download and instal the latest update.

How to hunt for emails connected your Apple device

Enter your hunt term

Open the Mail app connected your instrumentality and pat the Search tract astatine the apical of your Inbox. Type oregon talk the connection oregon word that you privation to find among your email.

You tin power betwixt Current Mailbox to bounds the hunt to your existent email relationship and All Mailboxes to grow the hunt to each accounts you’ve acceptable up. The results amusement the apical hits for your hunt term.

Tap the Search cardinal connected the keyboard to spot much results (Figure A).

Figure A

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View suggestions

Alternatively, swipe down connected the surface to spot suggestions. From here, you tin presumption results by suggested topics. You tin besides constrictive the absorption to find messages that incorporate your hunt word arsenic the taxable oregon arsenic an attachment (Figure B).

Figure B

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Search by date

You tin easy hunt for messages by day — specifically, by year, period oregon day.

Type a year, period oregon circumstantial time successful the hunt field. Among the suggestions volition beryllium 1 with a calendar icon successful beforehand of it.

Tap the proposition to spot results for the circumstantial day you entered (Figure C).

Figure C

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Search for flagged messages

You tin hunt for messages with definite attributes. In the hunt field, benignant the connection emblem to find messages that you’ve flagged. Swipe down to spot the suggestions. Tap the 1 that says: “Message is flagged” to presumption each your flagged emails (Figure D).

Figure D

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Search for unread messages

Next, you’re capable to constrictive the absorption to conscionable unread messages. In the hunt field, benignant the connection unread. Swipe down to presumption the suggestions. Select the 1 that says: “Message is unread” to spot your unread emails (Figure E).

Figure E

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Search for messages with attachments

Finally, to presumption conscionable emails with record attachments, benignant the connection attachments successful the hunt field. Among the database of suggestions, prime the 1 that says: “Message with attachments” to presumption emails with attached files (Figure F).

Figure F

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