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Does anyone know how to stop emails being marked as read on all devices if you read it on one device such as your iPhone. I do not want the emails to be marked as read on my other devices because it is very easy to miss important emails that need a reply on a computer
iPhone XS, iOS 13
keeping mails in sync both in terms of read and deleting on all clients
is the purpose of the newer email protocols such as IMAP and Exchange
if your mail provider has the old pop3 protocol support you can switch to that
https://www.name.com/support/articles/205935497-Understanding-the-difference-between-POP-and-IMAP
keeping mails in sync both in terms of read and deleting on all clients
is the purpose of the newer email protocols such as IMAP and Exchange
if your mail provider has the old pop3 protocol support you can switch to that
https://www.name.com/support/articles/205935497-Understanding-the-difference-between-POP-and-IMAP
I do not want my emails to be synced - I want to see on each device the email as unread until I want to read it on that device. I use my iphone to briefly check if anything important has come through but I do not want it to mark the message as read on my computer.
You may not like it but this is a feature of IMAP, not a bug. Usually it is exactly how I want my email to work but on occasion I'll get an email that I can't or don't want to deal with immediately on my phone or iPad. My solution is to forward them to myself. Seeing them forwarded on my iOS device I know not to open them so when I get to a computer I see mail waiting to be read.
The only way to do this is to use a POP account, and also so to set each device not to delete messages from the server when they are downloaded (deleting them is usually the default), either never or after a specified period. (In Apple Mail, menu Preferences>Accounts, and select the Mailbox Behaviours tab (latest version mauy be slightly different).
You are evidently using an IMAP account and since the messages reside on the server (like webmail) it's in it's nature to behave in the way you descibe and don't like.
Not every service of those which offer an IMAP offers a POP version - iCloud doesn't - so if you're using a service other than iCloud you will have to approach them and ask, and if you're using iCloud you'll have to decide whether to find another service.
On your iPhone, while reading your email, at the bottom of each email message there is a Reply arrow next to the Trash icon.
If you touch that Reply button, then scroll up the options window that follows, there is an option to Mark as Unread.
Have you tried that?
Thank you for the suggestion and I will try it but I would really that my emails on my laptop remained unread even if I viewed them on my iphone. Any other suggestions for a fix?
You're welcome.
And sorry, no... that's all I got. And it would be individual emails only... if it even works.
EMAILS READ ON IPHONE MARKED AS READ ON ALL OTHER DEVICES - HOW TO STOP AUTOMATIC MARKING READ ON OTHER DEVICES
