Minimise email you are working on: If you are mid composing or replying you can now drag that email to the bottom of the screen so you can still access the rest of your inbox. Options are limited, but it is something. Go Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Swipe Options and then set your Swipe Left command and your Swipe Right command. Quick delete (Trash):If you do a continual swipe from right to left on an email in the inbox it will delete it without you having to swipe and then tap delete (Trash).Ĭhanging the swipe options: You can also change what happens when you swipe left or right in Settings. More brings up a secondary menu to let you reply, forward, flag, mark as unread, move to junk, or notify you of future messages in this conversation while Flag and Trash let you do just that. More, Flag, Trash:Swiping from right to left reveals quick actions to let you do a number of things. If it’s a conversation you will have to do this for as any time as there are unread messages. Mark as Read: In your inbox swipe from left to right to reveal a “Mark As Read” icon.
We’ll be keeping an eye on things as new updates roll out and if you’ve got any tips of your own that we’ve not covered please feel free to add them to the comments below.
Most of these tips are new to iOS 8, but we’ve also included some gems from iOS 7 that you might not have found yet.
