How to make Mail rules on your Mac to deal with incoming emails automatically on your iPhone
The Mail inbox on the iPhone can become a disorganised mess if you allow all messages from all senders and all subjects to appear. The solution is to organise emails into folders, such as for specific senders or topics, like work or personal, family or friends.
Open an email in Mail on the iPhone, tap the folder button and select a folder to move it to. It works, but manually sorting mail is hard work. You can automatically sort emails using rules but iOS Mail cannot create them. However, rules created in iCloud are applied to emails on all Apple devices with the Mail app – iPhone, iPad and Mac. Here we show you how to set them up. Rules are easy to edit. Open a rule, change it, but don’t forget to save the changes
Using Mail rules
Step-by-step Create email rules in iCloud
1 Visit iCloud
Open Safari and go to icloud.com. You may need to log into it with your email and iCloud password. Click the Mail icon to open the web version of the Mail app.
2 Open the menu
The Mail app opens and shows mailboxes on the left, your inbox in the middle and the selected email on the right. Click the gear icon and click ‘Preferences’.
3 Add a rule
Select ‘Rules’ in the preferences categories on the left. If this is your first visit to iCloud Mail, you may not have any rules. Let’s add one. Click ‘Add rule’ on the right.
4 Select messages
The first part of the email rule is used to select emails, such as those from a
