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Apple mail, marking single email unread in a conversation

Hi there,


on iPhone, Apple Mail can mark a single email in a long email conversation as unread. Yet, in Mac it marks the entire conversation as unread. This is a tiny issue but I think needs to be addressed going forward.


In a way, this isn't a real good question to the community, but instead to the Apple support and software team.


To elaborate a bit more, on iPhone, by swiping a single email in a large conversation, you get some options such as unread, flag, etc. Swiping a single email on Mac isn't possible. You can swipe the entire conversation though.


Not sure if it is enough information. I hope some other people also find this something to improve. Thanks.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 13.3

Posted on May 15, 2023 3:30 AM

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Posted on May 15, 2023 4:48 AM

nurlan_lalaev wrote:

To elaborate a bit more, on iPhone, by swiping a single email in a large conversation, you get some options such as unread, flag, etc. Swiping a single email on Mac isn't possible. You can swipe the entire conversation though.

FWIW, after looking into this a bit more it is in fact possible to swipe a single message in a conversation in Mail.

  1. You can't be in Column View. Swiping does not work.
  2. You have to expand the conversation first by clicking the indicator showing the number of messages in the convo.

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May 15, 2023 4:48 AM in response to nurlan_lalaev

nurlan_lalaev wrote:

To elaborate a bit more, on iPhone, by swiping a single email in a large conversation, you get some options such as unread, flag, etc. Swiping a single email on Mac isn't possible. You can swipe the entire conversation though.

FWIW, after looking into this a bit more it is in fact possible to swipe a single message in a conversation in Mail.

  1. You can't be in Column View. Swiping does not work.
  2. You have to expand the conversation first by clicking the indicator showing the number of messages in the convo.

Apple mail, marking single email unread in a conversation

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