Email folders and collapsing them

Well here we are... iOS 8 and still not able to expand collapse folders. Apple get a grip... PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE address this issue.

Nice one iOS 8 and they still can't afford it.

+1 here.

Whats the big problem giving people the ability to use (and therefore collapse and expand) folders in their mailboxes?

Even most webmail services offer this feature.

Or is that plain wrong and should not be supported for educational reasons?

to all who have issues with not being able to expand and collapse folders.

I recommend this app "eMailGanizer" it works really well and gives the ability to expand and collapse folders plus much more. He is also working on an iPad version which is in Beta at the moment. Well worth the small amount being asked.

🙂

I can't believe we're on iOS 8.1 and they still refuse to add such a simple feature as collapsible folders in their iOS mail client. It's such a basic feature! I luckily have an iPhone 5c for my personal use and a Samsung Galaxy S5 for work use and love that Samsung's default client includes collapsible folders.

It's things like this that I got my wife to purchase a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 instead of an iPhone 6, and she loves it compared to my iPhone.

I bought eMailGanizer one month ago, and I have never managed to get it work with my IMAP email account, hosted at the French telecom operator 'Free.fr'. During the initialization, when it tries t get the emails from the server, it shows up an "unknown error" after 30 seconds.

The eMailGanizer support has tried to help me, but no success so far.

My configuration:

- IMAP server

- around 2000 subfolders

- around 900 MB of emails

Olivier

This is insane to me, how this has been an issues since day 1 for iPhone and its never been fixed. All we need is the ability to collapse a folder, not solve world hunger. We shouldn't be forced to buy an app (for 9.99$ which would be the most expensive app I've ever purchased and I have several iDevices) which might or might not work. Pretty terrible apple. Do something about this...we are on iOS 8.1.1 now. You have added all kinds of useless and much more complex features into the system and yet still no email organization. Every single android device I've tested in the past few years has had infinitely more email organization options than iOS does.

Looking at features in iOS 9 it seems not to be added there either. You mean to tell me that people who work at Apple really like scrolling thru all their folders? You would think it would of been fixed as soon as first person had to find an email. Please fix.

Still waiting here as well. I switched from BlackBerry to iPhone 2 years ago and this has been my biggest frustration all along. My company doesn't support Android for security concerns or I'd have gone that route. They also don't allow us to use other apps available on iPhone. so the native ios Mail app is my only option. The only alternative is to switch back to BB. That's somewhat tempting since BB was way beyond this issue many years ago. In fact, BB was able to anticipate which folder I'd most likely file each note in and suggest that first (based on prior emails in the conversation chain... or maybe even just by the topic and keywords). It was very intuitive and automated, but I also had the basic option to collapse folders and find it myself if needed. C'mon Apple Get with the times and stop ignoring your customers!!!

This is really frustrating, I am coming to the iPhone with an open mind after being a dual BlackBerry and Android user. I switched the BlackBerry to the iPhone for work, I mostly use the iPhone for email, I can't believe that basic functionality hasn't been implemented after years of people requesting it.

In this case I don't care "why" they don't have an obvious way. I would be happy if someone from apple show us HOW to search for emails in folders.

This is a huge embarrassment. How can this not be added as a standard function LONG ago.

Seriously what a complete joke. I have seen this being complained about since at least 2010.

6 years later and it is completely ignored still. HELLO APPLE. SUCH A JOKE.

Hi i have a iphone 7 running ios 10 latest version and still they did not fix this problem , HELLO APPLE ANYBODY THERE ? They keep coming out with new fancy imessage kids stuff but dont fix basic mail application probably the most use app especially for working people

This post it's 6 years old and still no answer on this. Can't believe you can minimize folder. I have also IBM mail and this feature works propertly. Can't believe iPhone mail doesn't have it.

This was annoying me too and here is what I did as a temporary solution: (1) somewhere in the middle of mailboxes list, where name of your email account shows in gray (mine says HOME in screenshot); look for the gray arrow to the right. The arrow pointing down shows all folders. Click on the arrow to make it point to the right > and folders are collapsed.

Then if there are some folders that you do want to see: (2) Top right of mailboxes screen, click EDIT and then scroll down and click "Add Mailbox." Go to appropriate email account and choose a folder(s) that you DO want to see. Click done. It brings you back to mailbox home, then click Done at the top right.

Clicking EDIT at the top right also allows you to check or uncheck default folders that you want to hide or show. Hope it helps.

Adding my voice to this now 7 year old thread about collapsible email folders in mail.app

Apple, please add collapsible folders to mail.app.

Thank you.