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Philip Michaels

iOS 18.5 makes it easier to customize your inbox — here’s what you can do

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With iOS 18, Mail gets a makeover in which your inbox is broken up into different categories. It's not a universally loved look, so Apple includes the option to change Mail back to a list view. And iOS 18.5 adds even more tools for customizing the look of your inbox to precisely the way you want it.

iOS 18.5, currently available as a beta, isn't a massive update for Apple's iPhone software. Instead, Apple is looking to fine-tune things ahead of its iOS 19 sneak preview, which we expect to see at WWDC 2025 in June. The new controls for customizing Mail's look fit right in that brief of tweaking the software so that everything's ship-shape.

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