{"id":53266,"date":"2021-09-14T03:01:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T17:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=53266"},"modified":"2021-09-13T19:02:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T09:02:48","slug":"gmail-on-ios-email-clients-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/gmail-on-ios-email-clients-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Gmail on iOS Email Clients Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/gmail_clients.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Gmail on iOS Email Clients Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/gmail_clients.gif\" title=\"Gmail on iOS Email Clients Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gmail on iOS Email Clients Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The other day we were out and about with an iPhone and had a scenario where I was relying on a Gmail email to complete a task.  Other than the <font size=1>rare and occasional<\/font> size and content of email attachments, on rare occasions, in our experience, the three iOS Gmail email clients below cannot be separated on any &#8220;usefulness scale&#8221; 95% of the time <font size=1>when there&#8217;s an issue<\/font> &#8230;<\/p>\n<table style=\"width:100%;\" border=50>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=3>iOS Gmail email clients (in order of our &#8220;ports of call&#8221;)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Mail desktop app<\/th>\n<th>Gmail Webmail<\/th>\n<th>Gmail mobile iOS app<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th><a target=_blank title='Mail desktop app' href='https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/mail\/id1108187098'>Mail desktop app<\/a><\/th>\n<th><a target=_blank title='Gmail webmail' href='https:\/\/gmail.com'>Gmail Webmail<\/a><\/th>\n<th><a target=_blank title='Gmail mobile iOS app' href='https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/gmail-email-by-google\/id422689480'>Gmail mobile iOS app<\/a><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>So what&#8217;s the <font size=1>(100% &#8211; 95%) = <\/font>5% <font size=1>of the times when there&#8217;s an issue<\/font> about?  Did you read the relatively recent <a title='Gmail Webmail Non-mobile Non-app Advanced Search Tutorial' href='#gwn-n-ast'>Gmail Webmail Non-mobile Non-app Advanced Search Tutorial<\/a> below?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Gmail counts as Spam, rubbish emails <font size=1>(we&#8217;re very thankful about)<\/font>, but it also catches in that &#8220;spam net&#8221; legitimate business emails on occasions.  And on this morning, the email we needed, fell into that category.<\/p>\n<p>And so, not finding the email in our first <font size=1>&#8220;port of call&#8221;<\/font> stop &#8220;Mail desktop app&#8221; Gmail email client, do we knock our heads against a brick wall, not thinking outside the box?  We hope not.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, those other two &#8220;Gmail Webmail&#8221; and &#8220;Gmail mobile iOS app&#8221; Gmail iOS email clients allow the user to peruse their &#8220;Spam&#8221; Gmail email folders.  It is this scenario that we see as a &#8220;material difference&#8221; among the iOS Gmail email clients.<\/p>\n<p>Does that mean we&#8217;ll be stopping using &#8220;Mail desktop app&#8221; as our first port of call, as a Gmail iOS email client?  Probably not, because &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>these scenarios are rare<\/li>\n<li>this scenario is detectable, in that the problem goes &#8220;we were expecting something and it didn&#8217;t arrive&#8221; &#8230; and so trying the others <font size=1>(in their Spam folders)<\/font> is an obvious &#8220;extended path to a solution&#8221; just following the &#8220;logic lines&#8221; of the problem<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--p>You can also see this play out at WordPress 4.1.1's <a target=_blank  href='\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/gmail-on-ios-email-clients-tutorial\/'>Gmail on iOS Email Clients Tutorial<\/a>.<\/p-->\n<hr>\n<p id='gwn-n-ast'>Previous relevant <a target=_blank title='Gmail Webmail Non-mobile Non-app Advanced Search Tutorial' href='\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/gmail-webmail-non-mobile-non-app-advanced-search-tutorial\/'>Gmail Webmail Non-mobile Non-app Advanced Search Tutorial<\/a> is shown below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/gmail_spam_search.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Gmail Webmail Non-mobile Non-app Advanced Search Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/gmail_spam_search.jpeg\" title=\"Gmail Webmail Non-mobile Non-app Advanced Search Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gmail Webmail Non-mobile Non-app Advanced Search Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Around here we&#8217;ve had a week of &#8220;digging up bits of non-immediate communication&#8221; relating to organizational and end of year and car maintenance issues and we related to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k5hWWe-ts2s\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; Meatloaf&#8217;s &#8220;Two Out of Three Aint Bad&#8221; a lot, because where incarnations of <a target=_blank title=Gmail href='https:\/\/gmail.com'>Gmail<\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>iPad via its Mail app &#8230; versus &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>macOS via Gmail <a target=_blank title=Gmail href='https:\/\/gmail.com'>Webmail<\/a> (ie. not an app, but via a URL via a web browser)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; means of searching for email things were pitted against each other, and a lot of you will concur with our verdict &#8230; macOS via Gmail Webmail is sooooooo much better at this.  Maybe that is (to do with) the devices, perhaps, but there has also got to be an element of &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>you can lose functionality as a trade off for smaller screen sizes, on occasion<\/li>\n<li>you can lose <font size=1>(the feel of)<\/font> &#8220;the room to move and think, and so are willing to wait for processes to finish&#8221; as a trade off for smaller screen sizes, on occasion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; <a target=_blank href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/gmail_spam_search.gif\" title=\"Click picture\">at least for me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And though <font color=blue>it<\/font> may be there with &#8220;iPad via its Mail app&#8221; we relied on &#8220;macOS via Gmail Webmail&#8221; (incarnation&#8217;s) Advanced search option &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n<font color=blue>Mail &amp; Spam &amp; Trash<\/font><br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; to get us out of trouble successfully on &#8220;Two Out of Three<font size=1> Aint Bad<\/font>&#8221; occasions with our &#8220;digging up&#8221; work.  Even the third one, though not finding what we wanted, was not &#8220;inept&#8221;, but could not find it because it wasn&#8217;t there, and at least gave us piece of mind we&#8217;d looked everywhere for it.<\/p>\n<p>There is another point here.  The online wooooorrrllldd seems to be shaping towards putting pressure on &#8220;email&#8221; as becoming (like &#8220;cassettes&#8221; and &#8220;DVDs&#8221; and the like &#8230;) heading towards obsolescence.  And though yours truly will fight tooth and nail against this because &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>we have a degree of disrespect for a &#8220;business practice&#8221; wooooooooooorrrrrrllllddd based on 24&#215;7 &#8230; pitting &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>what we see as 90+% of the time the undue pressure of SMS and Notifications versus Email as being a halfway house of a modicum of &#8220;get back to you&#8221; leeway<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; it could be that <a target=_blank href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Email_spam' title='Spam information from Wikipedia, thanks'>Spam<\/a> is part of (the reason for) that &#8220;obsolescence&#8221; push.  As a programmer I know it can be tricky to set up email arrangements that don&#8217;t end up as Spam (in Gmail&#8217;s mind) and perhaps there is some point here (for Gmail&#8217;s Spam algorithms), but I&#8217;d rather an &#8220;education program&#8221; for &#8220;Email Savvy&#8221; here, rather than ditching this great <font size=1>(&#8220;greatest&#8221;, for us)<\/font> communication tool called &#8220;email&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d50273' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d50273\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/email\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d50273' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d53266' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d53266\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/gmail\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d53266' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day we were out and about with an iPhone and had a scenario where I was relying on a Gmail email to complete a task. 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