How to remove Category icons in iOS 18.2 Mail?

With 18.2 introduction of category inboxes in apple mail, even when selecting list view (top three dots in mail app) to return it to the old format, you still have the annoying new icons representing the categories in front of each email. I'm selecting 'list view' because I don't want to use 'categories' at all. Can the icons be removed from list view so that I can just see a normal/clean email inbox?



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iPhone 16 Pro, iOS 18

Posted on Dec 16, 2024 4:55 AM

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Feb 8, 2025 2:34 PM in response to Mountain_Woman

Mountain_Woman wrote:

Apparently they don’t do any Beta testing anymore. I was in an Apple Store a couple years ago asking about a bug introduced in a new update. The employee told me that Apple doesn’t do much testing before updates are sent out. The new strategy is to let the users/us do the testing and find the bugs. Sadly Apple isn’t the company it used to be.


That is absolute nonsense. There are maybe a million beta testers, probably 10% of them are either app developers or “seeded” - volunteers chosen by Apple for their experience. I had the beta of 18.3 about 6 weeks before it was released. I reported a few issues I had found, all of which had been corrected in the GA release. (And the beta of 18.0 3 months before.)


But what does your comment have to do with category icons in the Mail app? They are not a bug, they are a feature. And they can be disabled in Settings/Apps/Mail.

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