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<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #000000;">Apple’s new iPhone update, iOS 14, launched on Sept. 16. One of the big features in it lets you change your default email app from Apple’s Mail app to another one if it supports the feature. If you’re like me, and use Outlook and Gmail instead of Mail, this is a big deal.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #000000;">Normally, if you click a link to an email address somewhere, your iPhone will just open Mail and start a new message, usually from your Apple iCloud account. It’s annoying when this happens, since your email might not come from your regular work or personal account, and you might miss responses that are sent to an inbox you don’t use.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #000000;">The change was first announced in June, when Apple revealed iOS 14, in what appears to be an attempt by Apple to address complaints from competitors. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #000000;">It’s easy to change your default email app in iOS 14 and just takes a few seconds. I’ve changed mine to my work Outlook account, since that’s the one I usually send emails from. But lots of other apps support this too.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;">Before we begin, first make sure you’re running iOS 14.0.1, which fixed a bug in the feature in the first version of iOS 14.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;">You can check by opening Settings &gt; General &gt; About. If you need to update, do this:</span></p>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Plug in your iPhone and connect to Wi-Fi.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">Open Settings.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">Tap General.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">Choose Software Update.</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Open Settings.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">Scroll down to the email app you want to use. (I’ll use Gmail for this example, but it works the same for any that are supported.)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">Tap the icon for Gmail.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">Tap “Default Mail App.”</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">Change to the app you want to use.</span></li>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">That’s it. Now when you tap a link to start a new email to someone, your iPhone will use the default app you’ve selected. You can change it at any time by following the steps above.</span></p>
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<div align="center" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #000000;">To read the full article, </span><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/04/how-to-change-the-default-email-app-on-your-iphone-in-ios-14.html">click here</a><span style="color: #000000;">.</span></span></div>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]