Comment by hdgvhicv
3 months ago
iOS comes with a mail client. It connects to my exchange, gmail and Zoho accounts.
You don’t install gmail, you connect a mail client to it or visit it in a web browser.
3 months ago
iOS comes with a mail client. It connects to my exchange, gmail and Zoho accounts.
You don’t install gmail, you connect a mail client to it or visit it in a web browser.
And a great email client at that. Both iOS and macOS's. I can't imagine trading it for some web UI.
“Great” isn’t how I would describe it. Searching for “delivery” from my inbox, when the third email in my inbox has a literal subject line of “delivery notification”? Zero results.
It’s great if you never search for email I guess.
It used to break the search index sometimes, but I experienced it twice at most, and it searches instantly for me, never failed to find an e-mail I was looking for...
...from 5 accounts with at least a decade of history each, incl. my office e-mail.
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When I open Gmail, whether an app or on the web, it already has the latest emails loaded. When I open Mail.app, I have to wait for them to download.
This is why Gmail is nicer in many areas.
This is obviously better, but until just now it never occurred to me that this would be the way iOS users would engage with gmail, since I've only ever used Android. I always thought the iOS built-in email app was just for Apple mail or something.
TIL. We really do live in separate bubbles.