How do I recover a draft of an email I accidentally erased from Apple Mail?

How do I recover a draft of an email I accidentally erased from Apple Mail?

IPad Pro 10.5 iOS 11.3.1

Using email app Sparks 1.12.8; Apple Mail app.


While composing an email for several hours, and after saving it many times while working on the draft of this email, I didn't like the most recent changes I made to it. Thinking that I had multiple backups, I decided to delete this copy instead of saving it this time.

But when I went back to my drafts folder in both Sparks and in Apple Mail, much to my surprise all traces of the draft are gone. Also there is copy a copy of it on my Trash folders on either Sparks or Mail.


How can I retrieve my email draft which I only just recently trashed within the last hour?


Dave B.***

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Posted on May 5, 2018 3:42 PM

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May 6, 2018 7:33 AM in response to Winston Churchill

Thanks Winston, I see that this is true with Apple's Mail app.


I sometimes use the Spark mail app instead of Mail and this is the cause of my situation. As opposed to the mail app which either saves current draft or "Deletes Changes," when composing a draft in Spark, when I cancel a draft Sparks choices are to either "Save Daft" or "Delete Draft." As an educator I'm aware of i difficulty that can occur when operating in two different systems, particularly when both systems do things the sane way, with a subtle difference. In my case it turns out not to be a good idea to use both Mail and Spark,


since in MAIL

tapping cancel yields the choices 1- "Delete CHANGES" 2- "Save Draft,"


and in SPARK tapping cancel (or "X") yields the choices 1- "Minimize" 2- "Save Draft" 3- "Delete DRAFT."


Therefore when working under pressure of a deadline, and my mind sudden wondered from working on a crucial draft to attend to some other sudden crucial matter, and momentially forgetting which app I was wirking in, I instinctively hit what I thought was going to be Cancel-Delete CHANGES in Mail, when what I actually did was hit Cancel-Delete DRAFT. Unfortunately, though in MAIL I had tapped Save Draft multiple times, when I switched to Spark and hit Delete DRAFT when I had expected the choice to be Delete CHANGES, my fate was sealed.

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How do I recover a draft of an email I accidentally erased from Apple Mail?

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