You can use filters to show messages that meet criteria you choose, control which accounts appear during a Focus, or let Apple Intelligence surface priority emails at the top of your inbox.
You can turn off all filters, or just one specific filter. Your work email account and its notifications, for example, can show up only when your Work Focus is on. And during a Focus, you can choose which email accounts you receive notifications from.
Here’s how to filter emails in Mail on iPhone.
Note: Apple Intelligence on iOS 27 or later is available on an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, or iPhone 16 model or later.
Apple Intelligence is not available in all languages or regions, Apple notes.
Usage limits may apply.*
Filter emails
- Start the Mail app on your iPhone.
- Tap the Toggle Filtering button in a mailbox list.
- Tap Filtered by and then select or turn on the criteria for messages you want to view.
- To turn off all filters, tap the Toggle Filtering button.
- To turn off a specific filter, tap Filtered by and then deselect it.
Match a mail account to a Focus
When a Focus is on, you can choose which email accounts to receive notifications from.
You could set a filter, for example, so only your work email account and its notifications show up while your Work Focus is on.
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Open Settings and tap Focus. Then tap a Focus.
If you don’t see the Focus option you want, tap the Add Focus button.
- Tap Add Filter below Focus Filters and then tap Mail.
- Select the accounts you want to see in your inbox during that Focus.
View Priority Messages in your inbox
- Start the Mail app on your iPhone.
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Tap your inbox, tap the More button, and then tap Show Priority.
Time-sensitive messages appear at the top of your inbox in the Primary category or in List View.
Note: Apple Intelligence on iOS 27 or later is available on an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, or iPhone 16 model or later.
Apple Intelligence is not available in all languages or regions.
Usage limits may apply.* *Apple Intelligence is available with Siri and device language set to Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, or Vietnamese.
Some features may not be available in all regions or languages.
Some devices may not be available in all regions.
Siri AI is available in beta in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27 and requires an Apple Intelligence–enabled device set to a supported language.
Available in English to start.
Siri AI will not be initially available in the EU on iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS.
Certain Apple Intelligence features that rely on server-side models are subject to daily usage limits, including but not limited to Siri AI, Intelligent Photo Editing Tools, Image Playground, and AFM 3 Cloud models in Shortcuts.
Daily limits may vary by feature, request complexity, system demand, system policies, and other factors.
Expanded access to such features will be available for a fee in the future.
- Use of these features is subject to the Apple Intelligence Terms and Conditions.
