Comments on: Frustrating User Experiences: iPhone Mail.app

By: Todd Albert

Todd Albert — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:57:05 +0000

On my mac, I have work and personal emails set to come into one single inbox (using Mail). Why doesn’t the mobile version support this?

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:27:53 +0000

Thank you. I’ve just bought an iPhone, and this is exactly my biggest issue with it. I find it disappointing that Apple hasn’t correct it yet, since it was raised at least 18 months ago. I’m going to put in my two cents over there.

By: Heiko

Heiko — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:35:02 +0000

There are quite a number of desperately needed but still not implemented improvements for the mail app – search and navigation between accounts and others! See my rant at http://heiko.blogs.com/das_heikoblog/2008/11/the-ultimative.html … as timheuer rightfully stated, you need to tell it Steve, so please head over to http://bugreports.apple.com and let him know.

By: KD

KD — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:41:38 +0000

Mark W, I think James’ comment was that he can’t watch in portrait mode while the device is docked . . .

By: KD

KD — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:39:11 +0000

Incredible, basic functionality that was available on BlackBerry and Treo for more than 5 years is lacking from iPhone. I returned my 3G after 4 days of utter frustration!

Let us not forget that the only over the air “true” synchronization is via an additional $10 per month service . . . again, available for free on every other device from the mobile carrier. Active synch on Exchange is not even a complete synch of contacts and calendar.

By: Mark Waldorf

Mark Waldorf — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:37:21 +0000

James Ward,
Tell your wife to turn the phone sideways! I watch movies and podcasts in landscape mode all the time.

By: Ray Cromwell

Ray Cromwell — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:49:14 +0000

Dion,
I do the same thing (use gmail to run searches). Google should produce a native Objective-C client, and leverage newer IMAP extensions like IETF Lemonade, in order to deliver a more efficient mobile experience.

By: James Ward

James Ward — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:31:40 +0000

My wife has an IPhone (she gets all the cool toys). But I have a few other IPhone “Frustrating User Experiences” to add…
- No way to watch movies and tv shows in portrait mode. This renders the nice sound dock I bought my wife useless with the iphone.
- No copy and paste.
- Deleting emails takes to many taps. I’d rather have a single tap and then the ability to undo it. I delete at least a hundred emails a day on my blackberry.

-James

By: dion

dion — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:51:29 +0000

Ray,

Absolutely! Drives me nuts too and I often find myself either:

a) Pulling up a Gmail interface to search
b) Forwarding an email to myself to make sure it is on top (if I have foresight)

By: Conny

Conny — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:15:04 +0000

Can’t agree any more, this annoys a lot. Another option would be a combined view for fast viewing with a filter option or something.