Reverse iPhone mail next/previous message arrows?

I suffered from the same problem with the random change in chronological order of the IOS mail app message thread. After the IOS 10 update, it reversed the order of the thread from newest to oldest on top.

I found an easy solution online and with a toggle of the option in Threading submenu under the Mail app settings page. Toggle "Most Recent Message On Top" to "On" position.

http://osxdaily.com/2016/12/05/mail-show-recent-messages-top-ios/

After change:

Hello Agrahman, unfortunately it seems like you're requesting to move specific built-in features of iOS. While you can rearrange the way your mails, it's not possible to move the upper arrows because they're supposedly built-in the app and the app itself is built in iOS 10

But you can still set up your iCloud account using another mail provider, or by downloading a more convenient mail app from the App Store

Hope that helps!

I agree - this is incredibly annoying.

On iOS9, the left arrow went to the next oldest message, and the right arrow went to the next most recent message.

On iOS10, these have been reversed. This is the opposite of intuitive design and is different to every other mail provider app and website I have ever encountered. It is so annoying I am wondering if it is simply a mistake.

Hi - I don't think the original poster was asking to move the arrows. He was complaining that between iOS9 and iOS10, their functions have been completely reversed, which is bizarre.

I agree. The change is bizarre. In addition, on the iPad they have completely removed the previous/next controls. You need to either continually go back to the mailbox level (portrait) or stay in landscape mode. Neither is a good way to use the app. Guess it is time to switch to another mail app on the devices.

This is really annoying. It must be a bug. Please fix in IOS10.next. Thanks.

Exactly, the arrows have swapped functions when compared to iOS 9. I'm about to downgrade back to it because 10 is getting a little ridiculous.

Besides switching the meaning, even more annoying is they changed from " ^ V " to " < >" for the arrows. The original was more intuitive to me since the list of the e-mails scrolls up/down not right/left.

Submit your feedback to Apple here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

This is idiotic behaviour. I flagged this early on in the beta and was ignored.

LIke everyone else, my emails are displayed vertically and not horizontally so the arrows should be up/down and not left/right anyway.

i do do hope it gets fixed soon.

It is very disappointing when UI is changed, you report it, and they don't change it back. Switching to left and right "arrows" doesn't make sense since up and down arrows made complete sense. I really wished they listened to you.

Why not just put the arrows back to pointing UP and DOWN? There was no ambiguity there.

It helps to hold the phone horizontally. That way you can see if the arrow left/right is going up/down. I have been pulling my hair out about this email arrow confusion. When you have 30 emails to sort through, it would be nice to know you could just click down the list without difficulty.

I could not agree more. A stupid daily frustration. I thought I was the one missing something until I searched out this discussion thread for confirmation.

EmaniacNJ wrote:

I could not agree more. A stupid daily frustration. I thought I was the one missing something until I searched out this discussion thread for confirmation.

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