Ipad email screen, remove annoying list of emails across bottom of screen

maribeth209 wrote:

I hate them. I would like to completely disable them forever.

By contrast - many Users find the advanced capabilities of iPadOS multitasking to be invaluable. While the ability to selectively disable multitasking features might be an attractive proposition for some, please don’t presume that your view is universal for all.

Apple do invite submission of constructive comment and feature requests via its Product Feedback portal. This might be the most appropriate channel through which to direct your input with regard to multitasking - and its implementation.

Product Feedback - Apple

I hate them. I would like to completely disable them forever.

Smr1111 wrote:

I find “the Shelf” a complete distracting waste of time- please tell me how to durable this pointless feature.

To quote directly from my reply of 3rd January… “the shelf is an integral component of the multitasking User Interface. It cannot be disabled”.

Apple do invite submission of constructive comment and feature request via their Product Feedback portal:

Feedback - iPad - Apple

New iPad has a line of email windows at the bottom of the screen, how do I get rid of them?

As with many new features, when they “appear” and are not expected, they can cause some confusion.

Sadly, many users of Apple devices resist reference to the copious information that is freely published by Apple via many channels - such as the “Tips” App (that unless manually removed is present by default on all models of iPad) that outlines major new features - and the User Guides that can be downloaded into Apple Books or accessed directly using a web browser.

This is perhaps of greatest importance when updating from one major OS version to another - such as iPadOS14 to iPadOS15 - where significant changes can be expected.

Changes in functionality between major OS versions is common to all manufacturers/developers. Microsoft Windows 7 is significantly different to its next major successor, Windows 10, which itself is considerably different to its latest iteration in Windows 11.

Actually, I did this and they were absolutely gone and have not come back. I think that you may have some DRAFTS that you may need to go into your mailbox and delete. Any thumbnails that come back later, would be instances where you closed and opened the mail app while working on an email, etc. Anything that triggers a new instance to be created. The thumbnails that are deleted by swiping up, do not return.

Sorry. I must have been unclear. As I said, “…new ones are being created. I would like to turn off…. [the] feature.”

Existing drafts may go away, and those same ones don’t come back, but the system does generate more when I open emails or go to answer one. I just do not care for this feature. No worries. Nothing to fix at this point.

Morris8peter wrote:

New iPad has a line of email windows at the bottom of the screen, how do I get rid of them?

Have you actually “read” the reply marked as “Apple Recommended” at the top of this entire thread?

I find “the Shelf” a complete distracting waste of time- please tell me how to durable this pointless feature.

It did not show on my screen either, and it still is not showing. I’ve no idea how to make it show up. Here is a screenshot of the top of the thread on my iPad:

Posting a simple screenshot here, in most cases, is the most effective method to illustrate the issue.

Indeed they did - of the Shelf. You may be referring to something else entirely…

Did you not follow the links that I provided before? It’s all there.