"You Sent this Today" Follow-Up

I'm not sure whether this has anything to do with updating to iOS 16 or not, but I hadn't seen this until after that update.

A couple times now, I've sent a message on my iPhone, and then a few days later, I get something in my Inbox, showing that message, and saying that I sent it "today" a few minutes earlier. So, that implies that that Email was sitting in limbo somewhere for several days. Instead of a date, it shows "FOLLOW UP."

Both times I've poked around in my Sent box to see if the message was sent when I originally wrote the Email (i.e., really was only finally sent today -- several days after I wrote the Email. In both cases, I could not find the Email there for the date I wrote and sent it.

Anybody have any idea what that might be about? I googled it and didn't find anything relevant...

iPhone 12 Pro Max

Posted on Oct 6, 2022 7:22 PM

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Everyman374

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Posted on Dec 26, 2022 12:58 PM

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.

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mr88cet Author

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Oct 8, 2022 4:53 AM in response to KaeBFly

Good to hear that it’s not just me who has seen this (and is not sure what exactly it’s about).

Dec 10, 2022 5:16 AM in response to Maxime31

I have turned off follow up suggestions, but emails that I sent days ago still come up in my inbox (?). I wish there was a way to make this stop happening!

huw177

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Dec 11, 2022 1:50 AM in response to mr88cet

Thank you iMorph. Perfect answer. Worked for me 😄

iMorph85

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Dec 26, 2022 5:29 PM in response to Everyman374

You are welcome! Glad I could help🙂!

iMorph85

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Dec 26, 2022 5:31 PM in response to Eickeloh

Hope it helped! You may have a different version/update.

mr88cet Author

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Oct 7, 2022 7:02 PM in response to SravanKrA

OK, so here's what I'm seeing (photos attached):The message you see in the inbox titled "Clall me by phone" there I wrote and, as far as I can tell, sent several days earlier. I didn't include myself on the distribution list, so conceptually, it shouldn't land in my inbox. Instead of a date, as you can see, it has a "Follow up" menu.

When I view that message, I see this:

In this picture it says "yesterday at 8:18" as you can see. However, when it appeared in my inbox out of the blue, that time as just a few minutes before it appeared.

Fuzzy to me:

Did it ever get sent when I originally wrote it several days earlier?
Why is it showing up in my inbox several days later, especially since I didn't include myself in the distribution list?
What's the point of the "follow up" options?

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