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

Oh, that’s all? Those are option settings:

To remove the icons in the list view:

• Open Settings
• Tap Apps
• Tap Mail
• Turn off Show Contact Photos
• Optionally, turn off Summarize Message Previews

To turn off Categories:

• Open the Mail app
• Tap on an inbox
• Tap on ⋯⃝ in the upper right 
• Tap to check List View

These 2 steps will return the Mail app to the way it previously worked.

As explained innumerable times in the thread you just added to:

To remove the icons in the list view:

• Open Settings
• Tap Apps
• Tap Mail
• Turn off Show Contact Photos
• Optionally, turn off Summarize Message Previews

To turn off Categories:

• Open the Mail app
• Tap on an inbox
• Tap on ⋯⃝ in the upper right 
• Tap to check List View

These 2 steps will return the Mail app to the way it previously worked.

To remove the icons in the list view:

• Open Settings
• Tap Apps
• Tap Mail
• Turn off Show Contact Photos
• Optionally, turn off Summarize Message Previews

To turn off Categories:

• Open the Mail app
• Tap on an inbox
• Tap on ⋯⃝ in the upper right 
• Tap to check List View

These 2 steps will return the Mail app to the way it previously worked.

However, Mail search has ALWAYS returned all matches, no matter how far back they go; this is nothing new.

This helped I advise people do what this guy Lawrence finch sez, feels like it was 👍

I have & it feels like it was.

To remove the icons in the list view:

• Open Settings
• Tap Apps
• Tap Mail
• Turn off Show Contact Photos
• Optionally, turn off Summarize Message Previews

To turn off Categories:

• Open the Mail app
• Tap on an inbox
• Tap on ⋯⃝ in the upper right 
• Tap to check List View

These 2 steps will return the Mail app to the way it previously worked.

jfinley226 wrote:

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.

Tap on the three dots in the upper right corner and change the view to "List".

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!

If you don't like Categories, you can turn them off yourself. Tap on the three dots in the upper right of the screen and select "List View."

gailfromct wrote:

The display of emails is awful. I do not want the app deciding which messages to display. I want my unread messages displayed in my inbox by date along with new message. Apple has taken a simple application that's worked just fine and made it a nightmare. I've missed several bill payments because apple thinks it knows a better way to display my mail. How can I restore the old settings.

So go back to the list view. Tap the three dots in the upper right of the screen and make the change.

GolfGod67 wrote:

Apple the U S Post office thanks you for the last update. You have made mail app so useless that people will go back to paper snail mail as the better more efficient alternative.

Apple doesn't read here in this user-to-user forum for feedback or suggestions. You can, however, let them know your thoughts here:

Product Feedback - Apple

Does anyone actually test these upgrades before unleashing them on the public?

Apple does in-house alpha testing, developer beta testing and public beta testing. You are always welcome to participate in the public beta testing.

How can we go back?

You can go back to the list view by tapping on the three dots in the upper right corner and selecting it.

MagsBKW wrote:

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!!!

The step to revert it has been given repeatedly.

Tap on the three dots in the upper right corner and change the view to "List".

You are equating “different” and “terrible”. They are not the same thing. But if you don’t like the new features (features ALREADY implemented in gmail, Outlook and many other email apps) read on.

To remove the icons in the list view:

• Open Settings
• Tap Apps
• Tap Mail
• Turn off Show Contact Photos
• Optionally, turn off Summarize Message Previews

To turn off Categories:

• Open the Mail app
• Tap on an inbox
• Tap on ⋯⃝ in the upper right 
• Tap to check List View

These 2 steps will return the Mail app to the way it previously worked.

LawgalLawgal wrote:

i hate to bring up a possible sour subject but when Steve Jobs was alive the only time there were updates were when updates were actually needed.

Is that the same Steve Jobs who said “you're holding it wrong” and “I know more about what people want than they do?"

As you didn’t bother to read the thread you posted to, let me summarize it for you: To disable the new features that were added because the competition have them (gmail, yahoo, AOL, etc):

To remove the icons in the list view:

• Open Settings
• Tap Apps
• Tap Mail
• Turn off Show Contact Photos
• Optionally, turn off Summarize Message Previews

To turn off Categories:

• Open the Mail app
• Tap on an inbox
• Tap on ⋯⃝ in the upper right 
• Tap to check List View

These 2 steps will return the Mail app to the way it previously worked.

Repeating:

To remove the icons in the list view:

• Open Settings
• Tap Apps
• Tap Mail
• Turn off Show Contact Photos
• Optionally, turn off Summarize Message Previews

Why would Apple screw up something good. i just deleted the Mail app and went back to the Google Gmail app.

iOS List view, minor improvement through Accessibility Setting. Adjust text size down. Now able to occasionally read Sender ID in list view without opening potentially hazardous spam, phishing etc., only works if sender has a short name. Still playing Russian Roulette everyday and wondering why Mail was brutally attacked by insiders, it’s still practically unusable for me. Apple please bring email previews back to my iPhone!!

Nobody here has to be mad. Nobody has to feel put out. Apple has tried something new, and for all those of us who don't like it, there are lots of folks who haven't written in to this forum who do like it.

So, how to deal with it positively?

Lawrence Finch in this thread has pointed out exactly how to change the settings so you can go back to the old style Mail. That works fine. Thank you very much Lawrence Finch!!

There are all kinds of other tutorials out there to give even more info, even Youtube videos like this kinda weird one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnP2njcG1kU

Don't everyone just freak out and complain. If I can fix it, you can fix it.