Mail practically unusable after 18.2 - is it possible to revert update?

List view didn't do anything with my mail. Mail is super slow

Well, you have to click the three dot every single time and I have four mail accounts. If there’s one thing that makes me think I’ll drop Apple and go to android, this is it

Latest ISO update has screwed up my mail. I want the option to change my mail. Apple does not know what I want. How can I get my old mail account look like? This is not a good update.

Well, it’s clear that you haven’t read ANY of the thread that you just added to, because the instructions to return the mail app to the way it was have been posted multiple times.

The email app is catastrophic. Can’t find anything. Searching names who emailed me this week but it comes up with someone from 2017. What needed to be fixed? It was perfectly fine as it was!

The new iOS downloaded last night! It’s dreadful!! A complete pain effectively searching for mail that has arrived!! Why change something that doesn’t need changing? As others have said, I want to sort my own mail and not be told what is important or relevant. Now going to see if there is a way of reverting!!!

Mail is horrible now so tired of Apple messing up stuff that works because they are running out of ideas. Now in Mail I am missing important mail. The mail no longer show you have new mail I hate it they need to really fix this problem immediately.

DorianR wrote:

I was not aware of the release notes, so Apple could make this more clear. You might consider being more polite and less critical when you offer help.

There is a link to the release notes on the Software Update page.

rosewittw wrote:

Its awful. Even in “list view” the icons take so much space that you cannot easily peruse your mail. Too time consuming. I dont even bother looking at email on my phone anymore. Might as well delete the app and go through icloud on the browser.

Why don’t you disable the icons, as explained many time in this thread?

I am losing a lot of emails since the update to 18.3.1 it would have been nice to have been asked if I wanted this. I have found that emails can be located in certain headings but when I select all mail or revert to list view a lot of emails are lost. I want ALL my emails in one. I don’t want to have to look through every group to find an old email. Apple would have been better designing a proper anti spam function so you can highlight a junk email so you never get it again and leaving the rest alone.

I have reverted back to the original list view and as you mentioned elsewhere it has to be done for each individual email account if you have more than one. However, not explained is the missing emails before and after reverting back. I also have outlook express and that’s how I found they were missing or why apple automatically inflicted this on everyone rather than maintaining the default and giving the option to change the email if wanted after others had done the B testing.

No return, no. Not at all. After using categories and looking at the All Mail section where 150 mails were found, I disabled the categories and was left with the same 150 mails in my inbox. The point is that before experimenting categories I had left only 9 messages in my inbox after archiving a lot of them manually. Now it seem everything is back... Thank you Apple. This is on top of a macOS becoming more buggy at every update.

Jstorm813 wrote:

The update to the email section is a nightmare! It’s not user friendly and has caused me to continue to mess several emails! They need to switch it back and forget it ever happened!

You just added to a 7 page thread where how to revert to the way Mail worked in the previous version has been posted around 100 times. Sometimes it pays to read a thread before adding to it.

Jstorm813 wrote:

maybe create a thread with the soul title stating how to fix the problem then 100 people wouldn’t ask the same thing I did.

You are certainly free to do that. You could consider it your payback for the help you received.