Set Email Reminders
When you read an email that you’re not yet ready to reply to, you can ask Apple’s Mail app to send you a reminder so you won’t forget to deal with it later.
Here’s how to to set a reminder for an email message:
- Open the Mail app on your iPhone.
- Swipe the email you want to be reminded of slightly to the right.
- Select Remind Me.
- Choose a time from the list, or select Remind Me Later… to pick a more specific date and time.
You can also access the Remind Me option when reading an email by tapping the curved left-arrow icon in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen.
The message will remain in your inbox, but when the reminder time comes, you’ll receive a notification, and it will be moved to the top of your inbox with a “Remind Me” tag on it. You can dismiss a reminded email by swiping to the left and selecting Clear; moving an email out of the inbox into another folder will also clear the reminder — even if it hasn’t been triggered yet.
Note that email reminders are not synced between devices; a reminder set on your iPhone will only fire off on your iPhone, even if you’re using the same email account on your Mac and iPad.