Mail in iOS 7 changes default mail account after entering addresses?

Nothing yet, though I had a look on twitter to see if many others were reporting the issue, and it seems some people think this is added functionality! The idea being that in ios7 the Mail has learnt which From address you use the most with each To address, and so as soon as you enter the To address it 'intelligently' chooses the normal From address.

Well if that is the case it doesnt work very well. I use my virgin.net email address 95% of the time, and yet after the To goes in it changes to iCloud. I even sent a dozen blank test emails from virgin.net (changing from icloud address manually before sending) to see if it could change the iPhones 'logic', but it didnt.

What is interesting though is that when I tried to email a different To address to my usual one I am testing, the default email did change from virgin.net but this time to my yahoo.co.uk account!

So I think there could be some truth in this being an intended change, but it certainly doesnt work well at all. If this is the case, I would like to know what logic the Mail app uses to determine the most suitable From address, and if there is a way to turn this 'funtionality' off! :-)

I have exactlt the same problem. I have four mail accounts: iCloud, Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail. My iCloud is the default (also says in the settings). However my Iphone uses Hotmail as default in the "All mail" box.

Thanks for the feedback. Personally I have different email adresses for diffrent purposes than segregating work and home emails. (My cautious employer won't let me connect to their mail server with private, "unsecure" devices.)

I have a new email adress with my domain name company that I would like everybody tobe aware of, whilst still receiving mails sent to the old one.

Also, my ISP does not support sending from their email adress through a WIFI modem other than the one they provided me, which forced me to send by default from the other mail.

Maybe I can set up the account linked to the "old" email to work only in reception ....

By the way, I am wondering whick kind of logics my IPAD could derive from my previous usage of mail adresses based on the correspndants ... 😕

I agree that this is a bug. Under Settings, Mail the field Default Account SHOULD be the default mail account used whenever sending an email. Under IOS6 this worked flawlessly, Under IOS7, mail is going out under a different email account other than the Default. What's the purpose of the 'default account' field if it is not going to be used by the mail programs? This needs corrected. "added functionality"? No way!

You're not losing your mind. I've been having the exact same problem on my Iphone 5 with iOS7. Have tried everything suggested here and nothing works. What's more buzarre for me is it's not a consistent problem. Seems to happen with some of my contacts but not others. It's without question a bug. I'm sure you've discovered that it will let you change the "from" account by clicking on the incorrect one as you're addressing your email and scrolling to the account you wish to use. That's a bandaid, but until there's a fix for this bug it's what I've been having to do..

Yea, same type problems. Even funnier when I close mail from any account (I have 6) on my 5 then reopen mail it goes to Hotmail and never did that before ios 7. Hotmail as default even when my default in settings is iCloud???

Add me to the list affected by this bug.

Steps to reproduce:

Select photo in Photos, hit share, select Mail. A message will be created with the photo attached, and from the default account. If I add any address to the TO area except the same one as the from, it's fine. If I try to send to myself at my default account, however, the FROM address is changed the to last one in the list alphabetically. I can change it back to the default, but I really shouldn't have to.

It doesn't do this if the compose happens in Mail, only in other apps using Mail from the share menu.

Same problem and it only started under ios7. Totally unacceptable for my needs and created significant issues for those of us having personal and business email accounts on the same device. Definitely a bug and not added functionality IMO. Must be corrected.

Strangely, seems to work fine since a few days

I am now running 7.0.2 but as far as I remember right after the update I still had the issue

Just noticed that the default will remain if I send to one account but if I send to a different account for the same person, the default sending account will change. Definitely a mess--

Almost the same problem. I send email from my mbp and then later looking for sent mail on iphone 7.02, find mail in Sent folder of different acct. mbp still show correct sent folder.

Update that was released Tuesday (7.0.3) seems to have cured this on my wife's 5c. Hope it does for you as this is a serious oversight IMO.

No fix here from 7.0.3

Go to Safari

Hit Share button

Choose e-mail

enter my own e-mail address

From address changes immediately from default account to last account in list.

7.0.3 on a 64GB Verizon 4S.

So how funny is it that when I start mail it defaults to my hotmail account? Not my last mail account that I used. Not the default (iCloud). Not the account at the top of my accounts (yes, I made sure Hotmail was not at the top of my accounts). Hotmail. Yes, I have 7.0.3. Yes, I have multiple accounts. Anybody else seeing Hotmail on opening mail?