How do I change my default Mail account on iOS 10?

MY "Mail" option in Preferences of on my iPad (dec 2016), does not have the option to change the default email address, as the last person to respond does. I took a screen shot of the same options.

ANy use as welcomed.

I had this issue too and just came across the answer related to this problem in apple forum. It's the answer from another forum user @ALR11

"Default Contact will only be visibe when there are more than one contacts group. If you have just iCloud contacts added, then this option won't be visible. If you add another contacts say for eg., gmail contacts then the Default Contacts will become visible. I had this problem yesterday, I added another contact group & Default Contacts became visible for me."

The original post is here, hope it can help.

Missing setting for contacts: default account

I have a somewhat similar problem. I have 4 e-mail accounts setup on my iOS 10.2.1 iPhone. I have the default setup to be my @me.com account. The other three accounts are my gmail accounts. Today I sent multiple photos (one per message) using the "share" feature of photos on the phone, and all the e-mails I sent came from one of my gmail accounts. This is really strange (and confusing to my recipient). I then killed the photos app and restarted it and sent another photo using "share" and it was sent from the correct e-mail address. Any ideas?

I found it. Navigate to Settings > Mail > Accounts. Intended default account > activate by selecting the Mail toggle switch.

That fixed it for me. Hope it helps. BTW, this is valid as of version 10.3.

This is so annoying, upgraded to IOS10.3.2 on ipad2 & iPhone5, both of which now default to my iCloud email address.

In settings/mail/composing the option for 'Default email' setting is simply not there. I have done everything possible to correct this, all to no avail - these are actually my wife's devices and of course she is blaming moi!

Help please

Found a fix: I also did not see the option to set something as default. My problem was I needed two email accounts set up in the "Mail" section. If I went into mail, I saw both of my accounts (work and Gmail) but when I dug into the Gmail, I only had contacts coming over not mail. This is because I use the "inbox" app from Google for my gmail. I could not set that as my default account because the iphone was not set up to send messages from that account. I had to turn that on. Once I did that, I saw the option at the bottom of Mail>Settings and was able to set the default to Gmail.

I've had the same problem for a long time. I use other email apps as well and the Mail app for my work email being that it an exchange account. How I fixed my problem seems a bit odd but it worked.

Go to:

Settings>Calendar>Default Calendar> choose the email of choice.

Make sure that the "Calendars" toggle is ON for your email of choice in Settings>Mail>Accounts

I tested mine out and my out going emails were from my mail account via the Share option.

I also added my preferred default account as an account in Settings>Mail>Accounts> Choose wanted email and make sure "Mail" toggle is on.

Go back <Accounts<Mail< you should now see the Default Account Option at the bottom of the page.

I hope this works for you all!

We have the same behaviour since the iOS 11.0(.1) update with all company devices.

In calendar, contacts, notes & reminders a default account can be set, but only in mail NOT!

Can this be confirmed by anyone else?

The setting is still there for me in iOS 10. It's the last setting in mail.

i am experiencing the same issue. i have two iPhones both exactly the same. they have been upgraded to the same version of iOS 10.0.2 14a456

on one phone i do see the default mail account on the other one i do not see this

Hi

Go to settings - Email Accounts check each account to find default account

Just change to the one you want.

Cheers

Brian

I have this exact issue. I have two phones, both on the latest iOS code 10.1.1.

My one phone has the switch to set the default email account.

My new phone doesn't even show the option.... ?

I have the same issue. No option there to set a default mail account, even after doing using recovery mode and iTunes. Using iOS 10.1.1. Anyone found a fix?

Has anyone found a fix/workaround? The "Default Account" option doesn't show up under "Signatures" for me either. I use two 3rd party apps that constantly default to iCloud as default account, and there's no way to change the mail account with those apps.

I was missing the default email account line as well, but figured it out.

I stopped using iOS email add my app of choice and I removed my personal account from email preferences and left my work email, but forgot I had done so since I was able to see both accounts in my new email app which doesn't use the settings->mail account settings.

Once I added my second email account back in for settings->mail, the default setting appeared.

I didn't want the ios email app downloading my emails in addition to my new one, but that appears to be the only way to make this work at this point.

Dale