"You Sent this Today" Follow-Up

The “Followup” email function being touted by some as an AI enhancement to email is ridiculous and annoying. The algorithm will pick up on any sentence in your sent message that you ended with a ? And assume you require an answer and a couple of days later put your sent message into your inbox whether or not you as a living human being needed an answer or not!! AND if you did not need an answer and delete it from your inbox - it also deletes your copy from the sent messages box!!! So I followed your lead and went to settings/mail and turned that function off, went back to trash and moved my message back to the sent folder (I may need it later) and now nothing has or will have that silly annoying followup icon on it again. Thanks for the solution.

Hi! I just experienced this…I looked in the settings under “mail” (your apple mail/email app) there is an option that says “follow up suggestions” under messages; I just turned mine off…I believe that’s what is controlling it and I don’t think it will happen again. Here are two screenshots below 🙂!

Hi mr88cet,

My recipient did not receive the email the day it was sent. They received it the day my Apple Mail app decided to send it.. which was a few weeks later. I had to send an apology email explaining the oddity and that the issue discussed in the email had already been resolved. It was a little embarrassing. :(

I have unchecked the Enable Massage Follow Up Suggestions option under General in Settings. I hope this ends that aggravating feature of the new MacOS Mail.

Thanks,

Sue

I had the same problem, but I could not find the same layout under Settings that iMorph85 said to look for. Instead, I found "Enable message follow-up suggestions" under "General," which I then unchecked. That should solve the problem. But my question is, why does my Mail-Settings look so different from the one in iMorph85's answer above?

I've had a similar experience. Following this suggestion, while checking the email settings I noticed I had Cellular Data turned off for email. I wonder if that had something to do with my outgoing email sitting in limbo? However, I have been connected to recognized wi-fi for quite awhile -- at least overnight and then this morning I got the Follow Up message and notification that my original message was just sent.

I just turned off "Follow Up" and will see if this happens again.

Ken

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I saw it pop up once on my phone. No clue what exactly happens since when I check sent messages it doesn’t appear to have been sent late (as an email sent afterwards to the same person still shows as being sent after and everything is in chronological order). Would be nice to know though

That just happened to me as well. I sent this email about two weeks ago. The issue was resolved. There was not reason for the email sent to be delayed.

Why was the email delayed? And why is it in my InBox and what does “follow up” mean?

It’s obviously some odd feature of iOS 16, but why is there no reference to this weird feature and a way to stop it from happening again?

Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Sue

Had same experience and most recent occurrence the original email does show in Sent folder at original day/time. Very strange feature especially without any context from the company (or YouTube reviewers, perhaps stranger).