How to add email accounts to Apple Mail
For many, the best email app is the one that came installed on your iPhone: Apple’s own Mail app. To get the most out of the Mail app, you can set it up to keep all your email accounts and addresses in one place.
Whether you’re adding an email account to Apple Mail on your Mac or your iPhone, it’s quick and easy. And most importantly, it makes browsing your email much easier.
Because if you have two or more email accounts added to the Mail app, you can choose how you want to read them. You can access each account individually, or click on the entire inbox to see all the messages from all accounts right in one place.
How to add an email account to Apple Mail on iOS
By default, the Mail app on your iPhone is set up with your iCloud inbox and nothing else. For many, adding an email account is the key to making the app useful at all. Whether you’re adding your first email or a second and a third, the process is the same.
- Open the Settings App.
- Open the settings menu for Email.
- Knock Email accounts.
- Knock Add Account.
- Select the email provider you want to add an account from.
- Follow the steps for your respective provider.
It’s simple: your email accounts are synced with your Mail app. When you add these accounts, you have the option to add other items that can be synced, such as contacts, reminders, and calendars.
However, if you only want to sync your emails with the Mail app, that’s possible too. Just enable Mail and any other services you want, and you’re done.
How to add an email account to Apple Mail on Mac
The Mail app on Mac works largely the same as its iOS counterpart. However, adding an account to Mail on macOS involves slightly different steps. And you actually have a few different options for how you might want to add an email account on macOS.
The first way is to do it directly from the Mail app.
- Open the Email App.
- In the menu bar, select Email.
- Under Mail, select Add Account.
- Select the email provider you want to add an account from.
- Follow the steps for your respective provider.
Alternatively, you can add a new email account using the System Preferences app.
- Open the System settings App.
- In the sidebar, select Internet accounts.
- Choose Add Account.
- Select the email provider you want to add an account from.
- Follow the steps for your respective provider.
Just like on iOS, when you add an account through System Preferences you also have the option to add an email account with all the extra services that come with it, such as integrating your Google Calendar with the Mac’s Calendar app. Similar to iOS, you can also choose to just sync your email and nothing else.
With this one small tweak, you can get a lot more out of the Mail app and organize your emails much better.