IOS 10 iPad email next/previous message button gone

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Same question here. Not sure why they would remove these buttons. I see most people using them mail app in portrait mode.

Same here... missing on all my ipads!

Hopefully they will out back. What a pain to navigate. What were they thinking ?

Apple does what Apple does...for better or worse.

You can let them know how you feel about the change with the link below. They won't answer but your opinions will at least be logged and read

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I suppose most of the folks at Apple use their iPads horizontally, but most people I know use it vertically 95% of the time, including in Mail. This was a very shortsighted change IMHO.

It took me 5 days to notice, so I mustn't use this very often, but I reached for it when I needed it. I wonder why they even thought to remove them. There isn't some replacement gesture we don't know about?

Do you all know you can at least swipe right to get back to the message list?

I have my ipad locked in portrait mode, otherwise it's impossible to use lying on my side in bed.

Same here, it's really annoying.

The next and previous email buttons have disappeared from my 4th gen iPad, too.

Not fixed in iOS 10.0.2.

WWhen in portrait mode on a message, slide the inbox into view by placing a finger in the left margin and slide right. This brings the inbox into view. It works similar to the right margin slide to view apple app icons. It seems a bit odd that apple didn't call out such changes in their own documentation of release "improvements". I searched everywhere for the answer only to stumble upon it!

hope this helps!

Larl1 and pshute both mentioned this workaround, and it certainly helps.

But I think what many of us are saying is that we would rather not give up the screen real estate for the list of messages. We would rather simply use previous/next arrows to move from the message we're reading to the next or last one.

Since it works that way on the iPhone, I see no reason why they took it away on the iPad.

Hi, it does help but, as KentGoldings mentions, the arrows are present on the iPhone and I rarely use mail in landscape mode. I think Apple just forgot them hence the "improvement" not being mentioned. Thanks for your post though

I use my ipads almost exclusively in portrait. Losing these buttons is unbelievably annoying. It isn't as if they needed to use the real estate for something else. This is a stupifyingly dumb change.