{"id":26047,"date":"2016-11-15T12:01:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T17:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/?p=26047"},"modified":"2016-11-15T12:01:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T17:01:39","slug":"filter-mailboxes-in-mail-in-sierra-and-ios-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/filter-mailboxes-in-mail-in-sierra-and-ios-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Filter Mailboxes in Mail in Sierra and iOS 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has enhanced the Mail app in macOS 10.12 Sierra and iOS 10 to help you filter your email and focus on what\u2019s important. Mail\u2019s new filters are different from filters in other email programs that move messages between mailboxes\u2014those are equivalent to Mail\u2019s rules. Instead, these new filters are more like searches, in that all they do is show messages in the current mailbox that match the filter, hiding everything else. They don\u2019t move or modify messages in any way.<\/p>\n<p>To start using these filters, on the Mac, click the Filter button at the top of the message list in any mailbox, or in iOS 10, tap the Filter button in the bottom-left corner.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Mail-filters-button-1024x318.png\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Mail-filters-button-1024x318.png 1024w, https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Mail-filters-button-300x93.png 300w, https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Mail-filters-button-768x239.png 768w, https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Mail-filters-button-1080x336.png 1080w\" alt=\"mail-filters-button\" width=\"633\" height=\"197\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 633px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 633\/197;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By default, mailboxes are set to show only unread messages. Click or tap Unread to bring up all the preset filter choices, which fall into four categories:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"26106\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/filter-mailboxes-in-mail-in-sierra-and-ios-10\/mail-filters-popover\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Mail-filters-popover.png\" data-orig-size=\"896,772\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mail-filters-popover\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Mail-filters-popover-300x258.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Mail-filters-popover.png\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26106 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Mail-filters-popover.png\" alt=\"mail-filters-popover\" width=\"500\" height=\"431\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Mail-filters-popover.png 896w, https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Mail-filters-popover-300x258.png 300w, https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Mail-filters-popover-768x662.png 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 500px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 500\/431;\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Email Account:<\/b> This section appears only if Mail checks more than one account. These choices tell Mail to include mail from specific accounts, making it easy to look at only work mail during the day, for instance, or only personal mail when you\u2019re home.<\/li>\n<li><b>Status:<\/b> You\u2019ll probably want to keep Unread selected most of the time to show just new messages, but you can also select Flagged to find messages you\u2019ve marked previously.<\/li>\n<li><b>Addressed:<\/b> Sometimes it may be helpful to see only messages that have your address in the To line, versus those where the sender CC\u2019d you. These options will also hide most mailing list messages, automated email, and marketing offers.<\/li>\n<li><b>Attachments and VIPs:<\/b> These options are great in scenarios where, say, you want to see just messages that contain attachments to find that presentation a colleague sent last week or when you want to focus on mail that comes from the people whom you\u2019ve anointed as VIPs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since you can pick more than one of these options, you can tell Mail to display just unread messages sent to your work email account that have attachments and come from the people who are on your VIP list. Imagine the possibilities!<\/p>\n<p>Once you\u2019ve gone through the filtered list of messages, click or tap the Filter button again (Mail fills it with gray or blue) to remove the filters and see all the messages in the mailbox again. Happily, Mail remembers your filter settings, so enabling filters again returns you to the same focused view you had before.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re overwhelmed by email, check out the new filter feature in the Mail app in both macOS 10.12 Sierra and iOS 10. It gives you preset filters that show matching messages and hide everything else so you can focus on a subset of messages. Read more on our blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[66,56,39,67,48,97,5,107,60,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-asmc","category-blog","category-how-to","category-ios","category-ios-10","category-mac","category-mail","category-productivity","category-sierra"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Mail-filters-photo-1080x675.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YLEm-6M7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1597,"url":"http:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/apple-previews-new-operating-system-features-at-wwdc\/","url_meta":{"origin":26047,"position":0},"title":"Apple Previews New Operating System Features at WWDC","author":"computeradv","date":"June 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This fall, Apple users can look forward to exciting new features in macOS Sierra (the new name for OS X), iOS 10, watchOS 3, and tvOS 10. 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