Comments on: Frustrating User Experiences: iPhone Mail.app

By: Camille

Camille — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:49:30 +0000

This is months old but several of the things in this list are already possible. The search (scroll to the top in the mailbox), the single swipe delete (to the right), and copy and paste ( put finger on a word until option comes up, choose select and then move the lines over the part to copy, put finger where you want to paste and choose it when it pops up.

I wish there was a select all button and filtering options. My mac mail is awesome at filtering junk automatically but I have to still get all the crap if I get the mail on my iphone. If someone knows how to do these things I’d love to know. And how do you create folders?

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)