There are three inevitabilities in life: loss of life, taxes, and tech platforms making design modifications which might be universally disliked. The most recent sufferer to this phenomenon is the Apple Mail app, which acquired a serious redesign in iOS 18. This replace can be rolling out on iPads and MacBooks.

The brand new Apple Mail design separates emails into classes, like Main, Transactions, Updates, and Promotions. It additionally provides contact photographs to every sender, which aligns with the corporate’s new branding features for companies throughout the iOS ecosystem.

Whereas some customers discover the redesign visually unappealing and tough to navigate, others discover that they’re extra more likely to miss vital messages, which is understandably not ultimate.

Throughout social media, beleaguered iOS customers have described this replace as “completely unreliable,” “indecipherable,” and “so ugly.” Some have gone so far as to want the app’s UX designers would “poop hedgehogs.”

Fortunately, there’s a technique to flip off these updates with out manifesting this unthinkable rectal ache into the world.

• First, open your Mail app on iOS 18.
• Find the three-dot menu within the higher proper nook of your display.
• From there, choose “Checklist View” as a substitute of “Classes” as your show.

Whereas this at the very least returns your inbox to no matter setup you had earlier than, there’s nonetheless numerous visible litter, since contact photographs nonetheless seem within the app. This can be handy whenever you’re texting through Messages since you most likely have contact photographs on your family and friends. However in your mail inbox, it doesn’t actually assist to see a bit yellow procuring bag subsequent to each single electronic mail from a retailer — particularly since a number of tech blogs and newsletters I subscribe to get flagged with the identical icon as H&M or Anthropologie, that are ostensibly a distinct sort of enterprise.

To eliminate the contact photographs in your iOS Mail app, observe these steps.

• Open up the Settings app in your iPhone.
• Scroll to the underside of the display, the place you will notice a piece known as Apps.
• From the Apps menu, scroll till you discover the Mail app (or simply sort Mail into the search bar to avoid wasting your self a stable 5 seconds — life is brief).
• Below the part labeled Message Checklist, toggle off the choice that reads Present Contact Images.

Ultimately, your Mail app is free from litter — nicely, apart from these promotional emails from H&M and Anthropologie that you simply don’t actually open anyway. Possibly it’s time to unsubscribe from a bunch of mailing lists? You’re by yourself for that one.