In IPADOS26 when you double tap an email in the InBox, it opens another window and displays the email in full screen mode. I can’t figure out how to close the window and redisplay the InBox. Any help is appreciated. My current solution is to close the email app and reopen it. This action is not acceptable.
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Original Title: Opening emails in a full screen
iPad Air
IPADOS 26.2 has fixed the issue. At the top of the screen there is an icon that looks like diagonal arrowheads. Tapping the icon closes the full-screen window and displays the InBox.
Hi Phil0124,
I went back to try your steps again, and I believe what you are using to perform these options is an Apple Mac… not an iPad. I searched online, and iPad’s unfortunately don’t have a Menu Bar. when you swipe down, all we see are our notifications. ( It sounds like that would work great if we had access to it!) And swiping up only shows my opened window tabs grouped by type, like mail, or internet, but that grouping unfortunately don’t have any x options.
Meanwhile, my list of ‘opened’ full screen emails is getting bigger, with no way to close them completely. Seems to really be a big bug for the iPad!
Any other suggestions ? Thanks
Discokill - Thank you for discovering this workaround -- this worked for me but obviously Apple needs to come up with (or reveal) a real solution!
Same issue.It wasn’t a problem for me initially in ios 26, but the 26.0.1 update created this new problem. Not sure what Apple was fixing with the .0.1 update, but they broke email.
Thanks for this genius workaround! Works! Hopefully we get an 'X' in the corner one of these days
Actually... on my iPad this keeps the draft open (despite pressing 'X'), resulting in multiple drafts (one per e-mail closed).
You can close a full-screen email by touching the battery icon, top right edge of the screen.
That works!!!! Is it documented somewhere or did you find it by trial and error? Thank you.
I tapped around the screen until I found the sweet spot.
Idemps -. I’ve closed them without knowing how I did I did it. I checked out this thread, without finding an answer, then went and tapped around the screen until I found the sweet spot.
Did you ever find a resolution? We have the same issue the windows only minimize. They don’t close and I can’t find an X or swipe up or anything to allow me to elect to close the window.
All my emails are on my iPad home screen since updating to iOS 26.2. I can’t figure out how to close them all.
on 26.2 and still has the same bug.
How do I close full screen emails on iPad Air with iPadOS 26?
