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Why does email always open on icloud email?

On my iPad Retina, my new Mini Retina and my iPhone 5s, when I check mail, it always opens on iCloud email instead of on my list of email accounts. I have to go back, back (back to iCloud folders, back to my email accounts) to get to my new emails in my regular accounts.

iPad, iOS 6

Posted on Jan 8, 2014 10:55 AM

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Posted on Aug 8, 2016 5:42 AM

For your iPad...Make sure you are in the landscape view, and open your mail app, then look at the "ACCOUNTS" section toward the bottom left of screen. My guess is that your iCloud account is listed first. If it is (and I bet it is), click the blue Edit link at the lop left of the screen.


Scroll down on the left pane to the ACCOUNTS area, and drag the mail account (that you want you to appear automatically on start) to the top of the ACCOUNTS section. Make sure you drag by the three parallel lines to the right of the mail account name. Then tap DONE. Voila!

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Why does email always open on icloud email?

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