How to Search Email on iPhone and iPad Mail

How to Search Email on iPhone and iPad Mail

Did you know the Mail app for iOS has a Search feature? Indeed the iPhone and iPad Mail apps have a search capability, but its not visible by default and instead the functionality is hidden behind a gesture, and thus many users dont even know a find feature exists for emails on their iOS devices. If you ever need to search for an email on an iPhone or iPad, the hidden Search feature in Mail for iOS is going to make your task much easier. You can use it to search by any word, name, or term, and itll search all inboxes or a specific inbox to quickly find any email by the provided search terms. Want to find an email on an iPad or iPhone? No sweat, heres how to access the hidden Search functionality: Any emails that match the term you searched for will show up in the list below. In the example above we searched an inbox for the word turkey and found a handful of emails that showed to match that word. The Mail search feature in iOS is fast and should turn up emails that match your search terms quickly, though the speed may depend on your iOS devices age as well as the internet connection, and possibly even the email accounts being used. By default the Mail search feature on iPhone and iPad will search all inboxes that are in the email account, but if you have multiple email account configured or , you can go to those email inboxes first within iOS Mail and narrow down the search by inbox as well. Its worth noting that accessing the search feature in Mail app for iOS is also the same gesture as summoning Spotlight and , , , and its also the same gesture necessary to reveal the hidden too. But before declaring that a downward drag gesture is the universal search feature in iOS, recall that not all search functions in iOS are hidden and tucked behind a pull-down gesture, for example, uses the Sharing button as a starting point instead, and is accessed by tapping on a magnifying glass icon. There is not always consistency with how to access a search function in the iOS world, which can also explain why some users arent aware of the search features existing in many apps at all.