Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Change Account Settings
To add, delete, or change the settings for accounts on your iOS device, go to Settings > Mail,
Contacts, Calendars. Most of what's there is self-explanatory, but a few settings require quite
a bit of tapping to get to or are located in less-than-obvious places. Allow me to call your at-
tention to a few of these:
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Signature:
As in Mavericks, a signature is optional text that's automatically ap-
pended to the end of each message you send, often with information such as your
name, phone number, or homepage URL. Set up signatures by tapping Signature
in Settings > Mail, Contact, Calendars.
By default, Mail uses the same signature for all your accounts, but you can create
a different signature for each account, which is handy if, for example, you want
to include a personal signature in email messages from your home account but
professional information in messages from your business account. To switch to
per-account signatures, tap Per Account. Then fill in a signature for each account
in the spaces below. To return to using a single, system-wide signature, tap All
Accounts.
Note:
I'm sorry, but the default Mail signature—“Sent from my iPhone” (or iPad or
iPod touch)—is lame! If you must use a signature, use something personal. The de-
fault gives Apple lots of free publicity, but doesn't help your recipient—it just implies
that you're too busy to compose a proper, thoughtful reply.
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Pushing extra mailboxes:
With Exchange and iCloud accounts only, iOS
Mail can push new messages to other mailboxes besides Inbox. To set this up,
go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data >
Account Name
and tap the name(s) of the additional mailbox(es) whose contents you want to
be pushed to your device.
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Archive vs. Delete:
For all account types (not just Gmail), you can choose
whether the default behavior for discarding messages is to move them to a Trash
mailbox (the default) or to move them to an Archive mailbox. In the former case,
you'll see a Trash icon when viewing a message, and swiping to the left in
a message list displays a Trash button; in the latter case, you'll instead see an
Archive
icon, and swiping to the left in a message list displays an Archive but-
ton.
To change this setting for a given account, you'll need to go to the Advanced
view, which is in a different location depending on the account type:
