How to show missing email in your iPhone and iPad inbox - Macworld

You look astatine your inbox connected your iPhone and iPad and find it empty. You cognize you had messages! They’re not successful your Trash oregon Junk folders. Where did they go? Focus connected the lower-left country of the Mail app’s view, and you’ll spot a bluish ellipse with 3 lines, from largest to smallest, apical to bottom. That’s the Filter button, and you tapped it without realizing it.

Tap it again, the bluish inverts to white, and your email is back.

The bluish fastener astatine apical shows filtering is active; you tin pat the nexus beneath Filtered by for the options shown astatine bottom.

Apple added the filter diagnostic years ago, but I support proceeding from readers and household members who brushwood it unwittingly. If you don’t acceptable retired to usage it, you don’t cognize it’s there; if you pat it accidentally, you don’t person a notation constituent to cognize that’s what happened.

It’s a modestly flexible instrumentality utilized intentionally if you person a crowded inbox. It tin beryllium much invaluable to usage with archived folders, though.

When you pat the icon, it changes from an unfastened ellipse with bluish lines to a bluish ellipse with achromatic lines. Then you tin pat a paper to its close that reveals criteria. You can’t modify these criteria to adhd your ain filters–you person to usage astute folders connected a Mac for that purpose. But the filter options tin beryllium useful: you tin show lone messages successful which you’re successful the main To: code field, lone ones from radical you added to your VIP list, oregon messages you’ve flagged. Some options tin beryllium combined, portion others are exclusive.

Starting successful iOS 16, you tin brace filtering with a Focus mode. In Settings > Focus, prime a Focus mode, past pat Add Filter astatine the bottommost nether Focus Filters. Tap Mail, past prime which accounts you privation to person messages from look successful Mail portion the Focus mode is on. Tap Add erstwhile you’re done. You tin delete this filter by tapping it and tapping Delete Filter.

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