Any way to revert the old mail conversation view?

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Any way to revert the old mail conversation view?

Just upgraded my phone to iOS 10, and the new mail conversation view is not usable. This might work for personal emails, but for work when I may have 10-20 emails in a single conversation, it is unmanageable to have to scroll through all of them like this. 1 out of the 20 might have an attachment that I'm looking for. I'm very likely going to have to use Microsoft Outlook instead.

Has anyone found a way to restore the iOS 9 mail conversation view?

Apple, please take this feedback from someone who has been a strong supporter since the original iPhone. The new mailconversation view is a major step backwards in usability.

Thanks in advance.

iPhone 6s, iOS 10

Posted on Sep 19, 2016 9:26 PM

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stephlzx

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Jan 4, 2017 8:02 PM in response to TheTed

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ChrisJ4203

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Sep 19, 2016 9:31 PM in response to TheTed

TheTed wrote:

Apple, please take this feedback from someone who has been a strong supporter since the original iPhone. The new mailconversation view is a major step backwards in usability.

Thanks in advance.

Apple is not going to see your feedback here. Feedback to Apple goes to their feedback site here, http://www.apple.com/feedback then click on the appropriate subject area.

As far as the threading, if you tap on See More in the lower left corner of the mail, it will show everything for the thread. If you look in the upper right corner of the screen, you will see Done. Tap on that and it will return to the last mail. If you are just looking at the inbox, there will be an arrow to the right of the mail, blue, double-chevron. Tap that, and it will show all of the mail for that particular thread and the arrow head will point down. Tap it again, and the thread will collapse.

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TheTed Author

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Sep 19, 2016 9:38 PM in response to ChrisJ4203

Thanks Chris. The double chevron is what I was looking for. Not intuitive, but I'm glad I can still see the emails this way.

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ChrisJ4203

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Sep 19, 2016 9:58 PM in response to TheTed

You're welcome. I'm a college professor and get a great deal of mail from students, and I can create rather long threads that way, so I had to be sure how to do that with my Exchange account.

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