Hi, just wondering if others have tried this and had success. I use several Gmail accounts in Apple Mail. Mail reminder does not remove Mail from inbox like Spark Snooze. Using the latest iOS 18 Beta and Apple Mail, I set an Apple Mail reminder on one of my emails and then used the option to move email to “later” folder which Gmail has a folder for. This removed the email from Apple Mail by moving to the later Gmail folder. When the Apple reminder then came due, the email was moved from the Gmail later folder to my email inbox with the reminder Apple notice. Seems this snooze feature worked like how Spark snooze does. If you look at “today” emails you will not see the email there when returned from the later folder. You will see it in the “All emails”’or the particular email inbox. Anyone else tried this? How does it work long term?
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Snooze & Remove email from Mail
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Just saw this, how has it faired for you? I wish Apple would just implement snooze like everyone else has. Snooze means hiding the email until X date/time and then have it magically reappear. Doesn't seem like too much to ask, but it sure does feel like it is too much to ask.
This works fine on the iPhone Mail Beta 18.3 On the Mac it presents in a confused manner. Hi there, sorry for delayed reply. It's actually working pretty good. A bit of an inconvenience as once you set a reminder on an email you then have to move that email to a folder you create (I created Mail | Snooze). When the date for the reminder comes up, the email still shows in the Snooze folder I created but it also then shows at the top of my inbox. If I then decided to snooze that email again, it then automatically moves itself from my inbox and only shows in my Snooze folder. The only time that email will be removed totally from my snoozed folder is if I delete the email if I have actioned it in my inbox or I move it to another folder. Other mail programs do that process automatically (moving it to the snooze mail folder) and as you, I just don't understand why cannot do this. The other email apps I have used, I find that when I go on other devices (I use a Mac mini, iPad, iPhone and MacBook Pro, the snooze folders are never in sync but with the process I use above, my Snooze folder remains in sync. I keep coming back to mail even after using Outlook and Spark. I love Spark but too many times emails end up instead of in the snooze mailbox they end up in their set aside folder and this frustrates me. Apple Mail has always seemed to be a solid option (I use Google email with my own domains) but it really is lacking features. Right now with the betas of 18.3 the performance and presentation between emails on the iPhone compared to the Mac is not matched (Mac Mail to be updated still to match Mail Beta on iPhone) It should be noted also that the Mac Mail under Beta, what I have explained above on what I do, I only do that on my iPhone as if you try it on the Mac Mail beta, it will confuse you and not present as it shows on the Phone, it needs Mac Mail Beta to match the new features of mail on thee phone for the two to present the same way.
Thank you for the awesomely detailed reply. I can see the logic in the process you laid out. I don't mind the extra steps (at this time (moving to snooze folder that one creates)), but hopefully Apple implements a version that is somewhat more standard like (e.g. google, outlook, etc). Might be wishful thinking. I have come back to Apple Mail on the Mac OS because it is just so much more solid than alternatives (and it's included in the 'price', so to speak 😉).