IOS 10 mail puts messages threads in seemingly random order

Totally agree, I have tried every option in threading and I can't get it back to the individual email list as you describe. So annoying and has slowed down my email productivity. Please Apple change it back.

Sreveals Jobs would've fired whoever thought this was a good idea. It is the most over-complicating change I've yet to see on an iOS update, and it's only purpose seems to be either driving people into hatred for ios10 OR migrating away from using Mail altogether.

Seriously, Apple: FIX THIS. It's absolutely awful.

Apple please look into this as it has made managing mails almost impossible using iPhone. please look the mail application version before IOS 10 in that managing threads was straight forward as on clicking the thread it took to a different screen where it displayed all the emails in the thread as a seperate item and it was easy to chose one of your choice to respond to. Today in current version I don't even understand as it shows all the emails jumbled in one page. It is unusable. Or someone please suggest if only mail application can be reverted back somehow.

Mail app is basically useless for those, who try to use it professionally.

It may be OK if you receive a few e-mails a day, but if you want to keep track of a long threaded discussion then it's just no go.

I agree that whoever came up with this modification, and whoever has approved it should be long gone from Apple.

OK, finally found something close to what we had before. Better, but not as good. Turn on all 3 thread notes in systems and then go back to your mail and find a thread. The email on top will have an arrow thing right next to the time or date of the email. Press the arrow and the other emails in the thread will drop down below and then you can click on the email you would like in the thread.

I understand everyone being upset. Change is bad, blah blah blah. But if it's that unworkable for you, then why don't you switch from the iPhone to another phone? Seems like the mail issue has really ruined your Apple experience if you are posting a thread here where users help each other fix issues.

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I'd also like to voice the same opinion. Email management using my iphone is horrendous. I would almost wait and check my emails on my laptop (if possible), especially for work when there are several messages linked together and not even bother with using my iPhone for this purpose. Apple, this is not a user-friendly approach for email management. It would be much appreciated if we can have it back like it used to be. Simple.

P.S.- My mother, who I recently encouraged to purchase an iPhone, is having difficulty navigating through her emails as well.

I agree with you. I will have 20-30 emails in a thread and they are jumbled up. Makes using the iPhone impossible for managing email. I hope apple gets this resolved soon.

From an article I found on CNet

"You can tap that blue-arrow button to view the subject lines of all the emails in a thread without leaving the main view of your inbox. It's a convenient way to locate a specific email in a thread. The messages in this expanded view are ordered so that the most recent message is at the top."

The double blue arrow pointing to the right located to the right of the date will drop down the list of related emails. Then you can click into just the one you want.

Also sometimes if you swipe the message to the left and click more you can click show related messages and it brings you to another screen with the list of messages. However this doesn't seem to consistently work for me and I can't figure out why it works sometimes and why it doesn't. My best guess is I think either all of the messages in the thread either have to be read or unread for this 2nd option to work.

The first option though definitely works thank goodness

Whoever thought when reading an email reply, that showing the original email in the chain rather than the email to which the user is replying immediately following the reply has never had a complex conversation via email. To further cloud this bumble, Apple decided to hide the email to which the current email is a reply amidst a jumbled, unorganized, set of preview panes (did I mention in no particular order?) with a see more option. I've got all the right toggles toggled and it's still unworkable. For a person that gets an email every minute, this is a train wreck. I spend more time searching for the email that someone is replying to than I care to admit. I already work 110 hours a week. Thanks, Apple, for making it 120.

Yes, this iOS 10 "feature" is terrible. Please bring back the iOS 9 threaded message view! That was perfect.

With iOS 10, I can't understand any of the threads in either my work or personal mail. All of the replies are jumbled together with no rhyme or reason. I'm going to have to switch to another mail app if this isn't fixed soon.

Completely agree. Need the list of messages back in order to efficiently find the particular message in the thread. In the new disastrous interface, you have to scroll for miles and hope to recognize the feeble break between messages. It also seems to include a ton more junk/code/crap in the email when the Organize by Thread option is on. The changes maker there application almost useless to folks who rely in threaded conversations.

I Have already tried that and while it does expand the threads its not solving the garbled message issue. Also from my Mac it's inconsistent with including all the thread or just a portion. Makes my email unusable. A real mess with multi response threads. It's mixing text from one person with time stamps and signatures of another. Hope this is solved soon. Can't image how apple missed this since most professionals don't operate in a world of one time emails With no replies

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I had already switched to Outlook, but didn't really want to use multiple email platforms. This solved the problem.

With all the commotion over it, I cannot believe Apple didn't sent out a notice to tell you about such a significant, high volume use feature change....wait...yes, I can.

Thank you, again.