Return to inbox: this new iPhone Mail setting fixes one of the app’s most annoying quirks

One of the longest standing feature requests for Apple Mail on iPhone is for the app to change how it behaves when a user moves a message to a different folder, or sends it to the trash. Until iOS 18.4, the Mail app would always automatically move on to the next message in the inbox, which would annoyingly cause that unrelated message to be marked as read in the process. What many users have asked for, is for the app to simply return to the inbox list instead. iOS 18.4 finally makes that possible. Automatically moving on to another message after sending an email to the trash is a pretty unexpected behavior, as most other email apps do not work this way. In fact, this quirk of Mail has been the sole reason some iPhone owners have resorted to third-party apps, like Spark or Outlook. But with Apple Mail getting better all the time, and especially with useful Apple Intelligence additions like summaries and smart replies, Mail is getting attention once again. And this tiny little change ... Read full article.