Active inbox apple mail

The Active Inbox feature in Apple Mail!

Active Inbox is a feature in Apple Mail that helps you manage your email more efficiently by keeping frequently used emails and conversations at the top of your inbox. Here's how it works:

What is Active Inbox?

Active Inbox is a feature that uses machine learning to identify and prioritize important emails in your inbox. It does this by analyzing your email behavior, such as which emails you open, reply to, or forward most often. The feature then moves these important emails to the top of your inbox, making it easier to find and respond to them.

How does Active Inbox work?

When you enable Active Inbox, Apple Mail starts tracking your email behavior. It looks for patterns in your email usage, such as:

  1. Which emails you open most frequently
  2. Which emails you reply to or forward most often
  3. Which emails you spend the most time reading

Based on this analysis, Active Inbox creates a list of "active" emails, which are the ones you interact with most often. These emails are then moved to the top of your inbox, making it easier to find and respond to them.

How to enable Active Inbox in Apple Mail

To enable Active Inbox in Apple Mail, follow these steps:

  1. Open Apple Mail on your Mac or iOS device.
  2. Click on the "Mail" menu and select "Preferences" (or use the keyboard shortcut Command + Comma).
  3. In the Preferences window, click on the "General" tab.
  4. Check the box next to "Use Active Inbox" to enable the feature.

Tips and tricks

Here are a few tips to get the most out of Active Inbox:

  1. Make sure you have a decent amount of email data in your inbox before enabling Active Inbox. The feature needs some data to analyze before it can start prioritizing your emails effectively.
  2. If you have a lot of emails in your inbox, you may want to consider using the "Snooze" feature to temporarily remove emails from your inbox and bring them back later.
  3. You can also use the "Mark as Unread" feature to temporarily mark an email as unread, which can help Active Inbox prioritize it again.
  4. If you find that Active Inbox is not working as expected, you can try resetting your email account or disabling the feature and re-enabling it later.