How do I sync my email and messages across all my Apple devices?

How do I synchronise all email and messages between MacBook Air, iPad and iPhone? Looked on the Helpdesk but I cannot find anywhere "synchronise all accounts" . Every device has iCloud. Only what's app is seamless.


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MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.7

Posted on Apr 8, 2024 11:50 PM

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Posted on Apr 11, 2024 6:39 AM

Syncing your email across all devices would require your email account(s?) be IMAP, and not POP3 accounts. IMAP accounts, when read or deleted would be marked as "read" across all devices, and if you delete an email on one device, it's deleted on all devices. So the key is to have those email accounts configured as IMAP when setting them up. (This is the default when setting up most email accounts).


Messages simply require your iPhone be set up to forward SMS messages: Set up iPhone to get SMS messages on Mac - Apple Support


Messages sent to other iPhone users would appear as "blue" in your message thread. Messages sent to non-iPhone users would appear as "green" in your message threads. As long as you're signed in to the same AppleID on all your devices you'll be synchronized across all of them.

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Apr 11, 2024 6:39 AM in response to Vitogio2

Syncing your email across all devices would require your email account(s?) be IMAP, and not POP3 accounts. IMAP accounts, when read or deleted would be marked as "read" across all devices, and if you delete an email on one device, it's deleted on all devices. So the key is to have those email accounts configured as IMAP when setting them up. (This is the default when setting up most email accounts).


Messages simply require your iPhone be set up to forward SMS messages: Set up iPhone to get SMS messages on Mac - Apple Support


Messages sent to other iPhone users would appear as "blue" in your message thread. Messages sent to non-iPhone users would appear as "green" in your message threads. As long as you're signed in to the same AppleID on all your devices you'll be synchronized across all of them.

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