Check your email in Mail on iPad
In the Mail app, you can read emails, add contacts, and preview the contents of an email without opening it.
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Read an email
Go to the Mail app
on your iPad.
From your mailbox list, tap the message you want to read.
Use Remind Me to come back to an email later
If you don’t have time to handle an email message right away, you can set a time and date to receive a reminder and bring a message back to the top of your inbox.
Go to the Mail app
on your iPad.
Tap a message, tap
at the bottom right of the message, tap Remind Me, then choose when to be reminded.
Tip: You can add Remind Me to the toolbar in the Mail app, to make it easier to access. See Customize the Mail toolbar.
Preview a message and a list of options
If you want to see what an email message is about but not open it completely, you can preview it.
Go to the Mail app
on your iPad.
From your mailbox list, touch and hold a message to preview its contents and see a list of options for replying, moving it, and more.
Show a longer preview for every email
In your mailbox lists, Mail displays two lines of text for each email message by default. You can choose to see more lines of text without opening the message.
Go to Settings > Apps > Mail > Preview (below Message List), then choose up to five lines.
Show the whole conversation
Go to Settings > Apps > Mail, then turn on Organize by Thread (below Threading).
Note: You can also change other settings here—such as Collapse Read Messages or Most Recent Message on Top.
Show To and Cc labels in your Inbox
Go to Settings > Apps > Mail, then turn on Show To/Cc Labels (below Message List).
You can also view the To/Cc mailbox, which gathers all mail addressed to you. To show or hide it, tap in the upper-left corner of the Mail app, tap Edit above Mailboxes, then select “To or Cc.”
Add someone to your contacts or make them a VIP
You can save someone to your contacts to easily find their email messages again in the future, or make them a VIP so any message you receive from them is automatically starred.
Go to the Mail app
on your iPad.
In a message, tap a person’s name or email address, then do one of the following:
Add to your contacts: Tap Create New Contact or Add to Existing Contact.
You can add a phone number, other email addresses, and more.
Add to your VIP list: Tap Add to VIP.
View email summaries and Priority Messages
If you have an iPad that supports Apple Intelligence, Apple Intelligence can show you the most important points in an email message or email thread. See Summarize your email and Turn email summary previews on or off.