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Actually, Apple made that choice on June 29, 2007. They have never wavered from it.
I understand the concept. I'm an old DOS/PC user who converted to Mac in 2003 so I get it. It's just presentation. Mac can show you a pointer to wherever that file is in one location or multiple locations and the location where the pointer is can be anywhere in your file structure. Wherever the file itself or it's parts are doesn't change, just the pointer which represents the file.
But on an iDevice Apple is choosing a single pointer to be in one place and you the user cannot change that. You can add other pointers in other places, but cannot change where the primary pointer is located.
And as @NightfallOrchid stated, some do not like that.
I can only speak for myself on this, but for me it is a matter of how much energy do I want to spend doing that?
Let's put your question another way…
"If any contain urgent or important information it is likely too late for you to do anything about it. Why not bulk leave them there?"
Why bother with them? Is it hurting anything that they sit there? Is the space they are taking up that important? If you are using POP email, I suppose it might be, but all my email accounts are IMAP. The only space I am taking up is on the server of the email provider - not my device.
Must have infinite free time and virtually 0 communications to be keeping your emails completely read
iCloud shared albums are not just pointers. The photo/video quality is literally reduced when using iCloud Shared albums.
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I restart my phone fairly regularly but just turning it off? Not unless I'm cleaning it, replacing the screen protector, or swapping cases. Restarting is a bigger deal with newer RAM than turning the device off now. As for email, I don't use the iOS email app so no worries there. Photos.... I currently have 3400 photos on my phone but I'm constantly deleting old photos and everything gets backed up daily.
They are not mutually exclusive. Having 0 or 1000 doesn’t mean you miss or don’t miss messages.
But having it at 0 is the only way I can ensure that all the messages have been viewed in their entirety. And if there are too many messages I'm skipping over, then it means it's time to unsubscribe from texts or emails from certain sources.
If you don't keep it at 0, then the number of unread is always shifting. It may be 1000 this morning, but then you receive say, 50 new emails in a day, 30 of which you read, 20 of which you skip, now the new base number is 1020. But you have to remember that. In order to avoid an email getting lost in the fray, the easiest way is to "zero it out" every time. That doesn't mean you spend time reading through each email, but at least marking it off as read.
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I get emails from my daughter's school telling me I can attend college prep classes to prepare her for college. Paypal and eBay email me when I purchase something, so does Amazon. Music artists emails me because I am on their email list. So on and so on.
Do I really need to make sure that all these are viewed in their entirety? I bought a pair of pants on eBay this morning. I got an email from Paypal and eBay telling me what I already know. Is it necessary to read those emails? And I want to keep them around as a record.
Is it necessary to delete them later on? Why hunt them down for that?
Maybe I just don't get enough email, IDK.
You can just set the left swipe to 'archive' in mail.app - then you keep them and they aren't in your inbox.
I always charge my watch at night while I'm sleeping. What is wrong with that?
To be clear, I'm not speaking of should here. I was just clarifying what I do when I received a response from another user that seemed to indicate that what I was doing made little sense and was only causing extra work and distress. My response was to illustrate that what I do works for me quite well. It was not intended to instruct everyone in the best method for handling emails and texts. We're all different and we all do things our own way.
I make sure my inbox is "read" regularly (again, it doesn't mean I'm actually reading through each email--less important ones can simply be marked as read, but doing so at least signifies that I've received it and gone through it) because it helps me keep track of what I've viewed and what I haven't (when I don't, I find I might miss a key email, which has happened before). I also just prefer the "clean" look of 0 unread. It helps me realize when I'm getting too many emails from email lists that I don't want to be on anymore.
Maybe I will stop doing this once I get a job where I receive 200 emails a day (my friend tells me this is about the average number he receives at his work email. Except in his case he hast to respond to at least 100 of them each day so leaving them unread is not an option!)
Or I just read what I need to, I get lot of information emails, which aren’t opened but if I need it later, I can view. I am not wasting time opening emails I don’t need to view at that moment. I set up smart folders, forget the rest.
Part of this also just has to do with the way I scroll through emails. In the morning, for example, I use the arrows at the top of the iOS Mail app to scroll through each email. The important ones that need responses get flagged for response, the rest are simply marked off as read. So either way I end up going through all of them because I look at them by running through them in the inbox, marking them all as read by default (same goes for the Mac app--I just use the keyboard arrow keys to run through all of them).
The thing about this habit is it's something you had to have been doing from the start. If I had 3000 unread, it meant that this method was never going to work for me in the first place.
The thing about this habit is it's something you had to have been doing from the start. If I had 3000 unread, it meant that this method was never going to work for me in the first place.
Unless it’s a niche job which involves replying to customers/sales. The company he is working for probably needs better processes. If I am going back forth for more than 5 emails, I will use other communication channel. Replying 100 emails is a productivity killer. Heck program managers I know handling multiple projects don’t reply 100 emails.
I have quite a few habits, some of them crazier than others.
I restart my iPhone and iPad a few times during the week. I actually have a routine that I do once or twice a week that is somewhat similar to yours.
First I delete the list of all recent calls, then I delete my messages, unless there is an important one, then it will be saved. Then I delete read emails. Then I close all tabs and delete browser history. Then I go through my photos - often there may be screenshots or photos that have been sent that I no longer need, they are deleted and the most recently deleted folder is cleaned up after. Finally, I close all apps and press "Restart" in the Shortcut app where I have created a button that restarts my iPhone/iPad.
Of other habits. I never update OTA, I always update via iTunes or Finder depending on which computer I have at the time, and with each new version, for example iOS 16 → iOS 17, I do a clean install and start over. I never use backup. Always fresh installation. Lucky I only have approx. 35 apps, so it is not so unmanageable when apps have to be downloaded and set up again. It's another habit - I ONLY have apps I use. I don't have apps that I don't use - or "maybe" need. If less important services have a well-functioning web version, then I prefer it over apps.
Another habit. My iPhone and iPad have exactly the same setup, the same wallpaper, and the same icons in the dock. I like when I take my iPad that things are in the same place as on my iPhone, and vice versa. I don't have any apps on the home screen either, I access all my apps from the App Library.
I restart my iPhone and iPad a few times during the week. I actually have a routine that I do once or twice a week that is somewhat similar to yours.
First I delete the list of all recent calls, then I delete my messages, unless there is an important one, then it will be saved. Then I delete read emails. Then I close all tabs and delete browser history. Then I go through my photos - often there may be screenshots or photos that have been sent that I no longer need, they are deleted and the most recently deleted folder is cleaned up after. Finally, I close all apps and press "Restart" in the Shortcut app where I have created a button that restarts my iPhone/iPad.
Of other habits. I never update OTA, I always update via iTunes or Finder depending on which computer I have at the time, and with each new version, for example iOS 16 → iOS 17, I do a clean install and start over. I never use backup. Always fresh installation. Lucky I only have approx. 35 apps, so it is not so unmanageable when apps have to be downloaded and set up again. It's another habit - I ONLY have apps I use. I don't have apps that I don't use - or "maybe" need. If less important services have a well-functioning web version, then I prefer it over apps.
Another habit. My iPhone and iPad have exactly the same setup, the same wallpaper, and the same icons in the dock. I like when I take my iPad that things are in the same place as on my iPhone, and vice versa. I don't have any apps on the home screen either, I access all my apps from the App Library.
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I think they also use Workchat for internal communications, but email seems to be preferred. I know he has many Outlook folders and emails are often placed in folders with different algorithms. It all seems complicated and tedious to me. It's not the kind of job I want, that's for sure.
Even for my personal email, I used to get 80-100 a day, most of it ads and updates that I didn't care about. I've pared it down significantly by unsubscribing from various mailing lists I didn't even know I'd subscribed to!
Nuts. Why?
Edit. I'm mainly referring to the OTA bit onwards but even half your first paragraph is basically crazy.
It is more realistic once a week - or once every two weeks. But why I do it, well... Maybe some kind of order mania. I love that my devices look and feel new, and removing what I don't use and deleting what's redundant gives me a good feeling. However, it must be said that it is not something that governs my everyday life or that I spend a lot of time on - it can probably be compared to vacuuming a couple of times a week. Similarly, I maintain my electronics that way.
With OTA updates, only the new parts are downloaded. When updating via Mac/PC, the full version is downloaded. It's a really good way to clean up your device's file system. Have you ever seen people complain that the "System" or "Other" section is taking up most of the memory on their iOS/iPad OS device? - this sort of thing + other things are avoided when you update via a computer. I never experience problems with my devices. Never.
I never turn my iPhone and iPad off. I do, on occasion, hard reset both devices if I find they are laggy (usually once every 1-2 weeks). I do turn off my Apple Watch though since I have two of them (aluminum and SS). Whichever one I’m not wearing, I will power off and store in my drawer until I put the other watch on.
Same here.
And I don't turn off my phones ever (Both iPhone and Flip5), but I may reboot them if they need it. Less that once a month.