Turn off 'Priority' on Mac mail

Agreed. Wildly stupid feature. And time penalty all ours to figure out how turn it off. You can do better Apple!

Thanks to person who supplied fix: /View/Show Priority

It works.

In Mail.app, you uncheck the menu item /View/Show Priority

Turning off the summaries got rid of the Priority section for me. Thanks!!

You can uncheck it but it will return, for example if you restart

I agree it's annoying. Others have said how to turn it off (thank you!). I will note another annoyance, and the main reason I turned it off: Priority messages look like normal messages, but you cannot interact with them in the usual way. It seems needlessly confusing to me.

(FYI: you can also turn off the AI-based summaries in Mail's settings (on macOS at least) in the Viewing tab.)

Show Priority doesn't appear in the View dropdown for me in the Mail app on my Mac, only Priority Field, nor in the Viewing tab of Mail settings. Any other suggestions? This really is quite an annoying feature

Thanks! That's just what I needed too.

Thanks. That feature was nutty. It showed things that didn't make sense or was outdated and I couldn't click on it. Wow so glad that's gone.

Yep. Bad feature. Shows spam fishing mails as Priority...

Yep. Annoying and useless, frequently showing emails that aren't actually a priority for me. Who on earth are apple canvassing when thinking about new features?

Thanks !

What an annoying and useless feature

This is the answer I needed. "View" tab didn't have what I needed.

A decidedly dumb feature. Unfortunately, in my menu there is no "Show Priority" to turn off. I am currently trying out other mail clients and ditching Apple Mac Mail.