Use Apple Intelligence in Mail on Mac
Apple Intelligence* makes it easier than ever to stay on top of your email. In addition to using Writing Tools to craft your outgoing messages, you can use Priority Messages to quickly view your most urgent emails, like a same-day dinner invitation or boarding pass. Smart Reply helps you compose a fast email response to ensure you’ve covered everything. You can also view summaries that automatically appear in your inbox, and generate summaries of complex emails and long email threads to view all the pertinent details.
Note: To use Apple Intelligence, you need a Mac with M1 or later and macOS 15.1 or later, with Apple Intelligence turned on. Apple Intelligence is not available in all languages or regions. To check whether Apple Intelligence is available for your device, language, and region, see the Apple Support article How to get Apple Intelligence.
View Priority Messages in your inbox
Go to the Mail app
on your Mac.Click an inbox, choose View in the menu bar, then click Show Priority.
Time-sensitive emails appear at the top of your inbox.
Use Smart Reply in Mail
Go to the Mail app
on your Mac.Click an email, then click
.Click the Message field, then choose a suggested reply.
Apple Intelligence drafts a reply in the email. To refine your reply, see Use Writing Tools with Apple Intelligence.
When you’re ready to send your reply, click
.
Summarize your email
Apple Intelligence can help you summarize a complex email, or it can help you get caught up on a long email thread in seconds. Just follow these steps:
Go to the Mail app
on your Mac.A short summary automatically appears under each unread email in your inbox.
Select an email, then scroll up.
Click Summarize at the top of the email.
A summary appears above the email. If the email is part of a thread, the contents of the thread are summarized.
Turn email summary previews on or off
When you turn on Apple Intelligence, summaries automatically appear under your emails. You can turn off summaries and choose to see the first lines of the most recent message instead.
Go to the Mail app
on your Mac.Choose Mail > Settings, then click Viewing.
Select or deselect Summarize Message Previews.