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Ryq W

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Apr 14, 2016
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Is anyone else finding the new Apple Mail in Big Sur incomprehensible?

To see the mail I want now takes more time. Finding, sorting and Filtering make no sense & don't work. I can't select the filters I want...they are preset to what appear to be random things. Finding "Find" is a cross between Where's Waldo & the Search for Jimmy Hoffa. Menu options are more random than logical. They don't stay or do what is expected when selected.

Icons are too tiny. Pale text on paler backgrounds may look attractive but require studio lighting and magnification. Eye doctors everywhere will benefit.

What should take a half second now can take 15 minutes.

I've reinstalled the OS. I've re-indexed Spotlight. I've reviewed all the preferences and reset to defaults.


(I wonder if the word "default" instead of "presets" or "initial" impacts the choices made by designers...jest sayin'.)

It appears to me that someone may have pushed up a deadline when they thought they had months left. Broken. Broken. Broken.
 
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OddMacFan

macrumors member
Jan 21, 2019
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I'm running Big Sur on a 2019 MBP 16" and it's definitely slower than Catalina. I'm using the Mail app along with iCloud email (only one account), and it is excruciatingly slow at basic tasks which require IMAP activity, such as sending mail or deleting messages, sometimes failing with IMAP errors. I'm noticing similar behavior on iOS 14.2 Mail, though not quite as bad, but syncing up there is noticeably slower than it used to be. None of this was an issue on prior OS versions.

In addition, the Calculator app on Big Sur is S-L-O-W with operations. Simple calculations like 2 + 2 will sometimes take several seconds to return a result.
 

svenmany

macrumors demi-god
Jun 19, 2011
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I can't select the filters I want...they are preset to what appear to be random things.

I don't really use filters, so I might be missing your point. There is now a menu choice in the View menu, just below "Sort By" that allows you to set the filter.
 
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