Out of curiosity, how many people use the native Mail app?

Highrisedrifter

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I use the native mail app for my personal email address and the Gmail app for my work email address.

I also have the Outlook app installed for the email address I use to sign up to websites, so I don't get spam to either my work or personal addresses.
 

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At the moment, I'm testing out the latest version of Spark with one of my active email accounts. I'm using the others with the native Mail app. I'll see if I continue to use Spark or re-enable that one account in the native Mail app after a few days.
 

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I tried them all and never stick to 3rd party email app for longer than 1 day. Stock mail app is the best, BUT, recently, I discovered Spark. And I'm still using it. It is a great app and I just love it. I'm Not going back to the stock mail app anytime soon.
 

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I used to use it but discovered that the Outlook app offered everything I needed from the stock app such as combined inboxes plus features I like from Inbox by Gmail such as snoozing. I recommend the Outlook app, it even has 3D Touch functions.
 

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I used to use it but discovered that the Outlook app offered everything I needed from the stock app such as combined inboxes plus features I like from Inbox by Gmail such as snoozing. I recommend the Outlook app, it even has 3D Touch functions.

And Push for Gmail! I don't even have any mail coming to the stock app anymore.
 

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I had to jump to Outlook because the stock mail app kept giving me "cannot connect to server" several times a day. I tried everything but nothing seemed to solve it. Outlook works great and I'm having no issues whatsoever. I like how the focused inbox works also.
 

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As expected, I've decided that the native Mail app will continue to be my go-to app for email after giving the latest version of Spark and Outlook a brief spin.
 

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I've tried several of them and eventually went back to the default. It's the only one that works with my "You've Got Mail" ringtone. Although I do find it rather annoying that the notification sound goes off when I put an unread email into the trash. I also feel that they could make it a lot easier to delete an email.... there should be a little trash icon sitting right there when you're reading an email, so you're tapping once to delete and not twice.
 

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Since having my first iPhone, a white 4S, I've relied on the native email app for my accounts and I'm happy enough with the performance. I'm not a email power user so it works well for my needs🏽
 

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Recently coming from Android, I use the same Gmail (for personal and work) and Outlook (for other personal and Office 365 EDU accounts) apps that I used on my S3 and Note 4. I have been tempted to try the native mail app, but I'm so used to using the others that I didn't see a need to set it up. (Pardon my ignorance if the native app does the following) I really like that both will pull in all of my folders that I have on the web and in Gmail (I don't send much from the Outlook accounts) pulls in my contacts and auto-suggests in the "to" field when I start typing. That said, I feel that the Outlook app is overall functionally better and offers more features than Gmail on iOS.
 

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I've tried Outlook, but I keep coming back to the stock app because I prefer how it integrates with iOS and my iOS contacts. I didn't like the way that Outlook presents my iOS contacts. Like others have said, it seems to do everything I need with feature upgrades from recent years.