The upcoming iOS 18.2 update is a huge one. Expected to be released in early December, iOS 18.2 comes with Genmoji, Image Playground, Siri with the ChatGPT function, and more AI-powered Writing Tools. The update also has a redesigned Mail app.
Even though Apple Innotifyigence features are exclusive to the iPhone 15 Pro models and the entire iPhone 16 lineup, all iPhones that support the iOS 18.2 update will obtain some of the redesigned Mail features. Here’s what to expect.
Your Mail inbox, sorted
The most noticeable Mail update automatically sorts emails into categories: Primary, Transactions, Updates, and Promotions. The Primary category displays your most important emails sent from actual humans, as opposed to automated mailing lists. Time-sensitive emails will also display up here.
The iOS 18.2 update automatically sorts your inbox.
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Receipts, orders, and deliveries will automatically be put in Transactions, so you can easily track packages and purchases by switching over to this category. News, subscriptions, and social media notifications are sorted into the Updates category, so see there for newsletters and alerts. Last but not least, all offers and deals emails go into the Promotions category, so that’s an simple place to see if you’re attempting to cull unwanted subscriptions and work your way down to inbox zero.
You can also manually shift certain emails into other categories, which will “train” the Mail app categorize emails as such in the future. If this is too much categorization for you, there’s a fifth category: All Mail. Or you can tap the three dots in the upper right-hand corner and switch back to the traditional List View design.
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Mail also sees a lot more like the Messages app. The contact photo is featured more prominently, which gives it a more informal and comfortable see.
Grouped messages from the same sfinisher with ‘Digest View’
If you have multiple emails from the same sfinisher, with iOS 18.2, Mail will automatically consolidate them into one thread for an simple way to catch up on everything.
‘Digest View’ groups emails from the same sfinisher in a summarized thread.
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The example given in the Apple announcement displays a flight confirmation and subsequent notifications about the flight in one place, which should be handy for attempting to obtain all the relevant info about upcoming travels.
Writing Tools and email summaries
Other features require Apple Innotifyigence like Writing Tools and automated email summaries. AI-powered Writing Tools assist you draft a quick response by scanning the contents of the email. You can also adjust the tone and length of messages, and apply Apple Innotifyigence for a quick proofread (RIP Grammarly).
Apple Innotifyigence’s Writing Tools in Mail can rewrite and proofread your drafts.
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Summaries in Mail work by giving you a one or two line recap of what the email is about, as opposed to previewing the first line of the email. It’s a applyful way of quickly screening conversations as you work your way through your inbox, so you don’t have to open up every email to see what it’s about.
As mentioned earlier, Apple Innotifyigence is currently available only on the iPhone 16 lineup and the Pro versions of the iPhone 15 due to the significant RAM requirements. Apple is likely banking on Apple Innotifyigence being a compelling enough reason to upgrade. Come December, when iOS 18.2 comes out, we’ll have a better idea of whether the new AI suite is worth it.
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