These four new Apple Mail features could save your skin at work one day
Apple Mail upgrades guard against silly email mistakes
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Applehas announced a series of upgrades for itsemail clientthat might someday save you from an embarrassing situation at work.
AtWWDC 2022, the company unveiled four “highly-requested” new features for its Mail application: undo send, scheduled send, follow-up suggestions and remind me.
The functionality of each new utility is self-evident, but the overall effect is to help Apple customers increase theirproductivityand ensure important tasks don’t fall through the cracks, whether they are working onMac,iPhoneoriPad.
Email blunders
The frequency with which most of us fire offemailsat work means blunders are inevitable, ranging from spelling mistakes and missing attachments to more costly errors, like sending a sensitive message to the wrong recipient.
Similarly, the volume of emails that land in the inbox (combined with the barrage of notifications fromcollaboration toolsandmessaging apps) makes it easy to miss important communications or forget to act on time-sensitive requests.
The latest upgrades for Apple Mail, however, are designed to guard against these kinds of scenarios, helping users to stay on top of their communications and correct any silly errors before the damage is done.
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Unfortunately, Apple customers will have to wait a little while to get their hands on these new functionalities, which will go live alongsidemacOS Ventura,iOS 16andiPadOS 16in the autumn.
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But according to Apple, the new Mail features will be worth the wait, combining with the various other announcements coming out ofWWDCto make working on Mac devices more hassle-free than ever.
“macOS Ventura includes powerful features and new innovations that help make the Mac experience even better,” said Craig Federighi, SVP Software Engineering at Apple.
“With helpful new features in Messages, state-of-the-art search technologies in Mail, and an updated design for Spotlight, Ventura has so much to offer and enriches many of the ways customers use their Macs.”
Joel Khalili is the News and Features Editor at TechRadar Pro, covering cybersecurity, data privacy, cloud, AI, blockchain, internet infrastructure, 5G, data storage and computing. He’s responsible for curating our news content, as well as commissioning and producing features on the technologies that are transforming the way the world does business.
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