IOS 10 mail puts messages threads in seemingly random order

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

Just remember everyone, the Apple engineers are smarter than you. If you thought it was fine the old way, it is just because you are a prole.

Thank you Apple for forcing us to accept your glorious intelligence. We are your humble servants.

Big Brother

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.

Here is the screen shot from the article

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.

Go into Settings > Mail and scroll down to THREADING. Turn on the Most Recent Message on Top setting to put them in order. It's still a bit weird, so you can turn off Organize by Thread if you like it the old way.

most recent isnt much help. Turning it off isn't the option either. I've managed my Email my thread for along time it used to go into another window and give a list of emails associated with the thread. I could easily select the one I was needing. Now I have to scroll 50 pages to find what Im needing. for a thread of 2 emails it migj work. Not when you have 30.

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.

Nicely said!!

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.

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.