You can also swipe all the way to the left to archive the message with one motion. Flag marks the message with a flag so you can find it again easily in Mail’s Flagged mailbox-some people do this to track messages that need replies or other actions. We talk more about configuring which buttons you see shortly.) Tap Archive to store the message in an Archive mailbox (or All Mail for Gmail users), which is good for getting it out of your face without deleting it. (If you see Trash instead of Archive, that’s fine. Swipe left (from right to left) a short distance, and you get three buttons, More, Flag, and Archive. This swipe is great for those who like marking messages as unread to keep them around for later processing. If the message has already been read, that button changes to Unread. You can either stop swiping and tap it or keep swiping to the right to mark the message as read. In iOS and iPadOS, when you swipe a short distance right on an unread message (from left to right), Mail displays a Read button.

It’s an efficient way to work through email quickly. Regardless of whether you’re using iOS, iPadOS, or macOS, you can swipe on messages in the message list to perform various actions-some of which you can customize. We all get too much email, and while Mail can’t help you get less (other than by making it easy to unsubscribe from mailing lists), it does provide shortcuts for processing your mail more quickly.

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