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Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll show you my workaround for creating an email distro or group list for iOS Mail.  As I’ve said in other videos, iOS Mail is a really basic app. I haven’t found a better option yet, but it does require some hacks and workarounds to approximate a full service mail app.  Here’s is a missing feature that has bugged me for years — there is no way to add an email group in contacts so that you can email the same group of people regularly.  I’m sure you can immediately think of examples in your life, but 2 of mine are an email group that I send photos to once a month and an email group for a discussion series that I lead. Since I can’t create a group of emails, I either have to add each person individually to the email — which is error prone and annoying OR I have to go back through emails, find one that I sent to this group before, forward it, and then delete the old subject and...

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today’s video, I will share 6 secret features in the iOS mail app that I have stumbled upon over years of using it! iOS Mail is a pretty basic app. Apple has added some functionality to it over the years, but it is still pretty bare bones. Even though I have tried out other mail apps, I keep coming back to iOS Mail — maybe because I like the integration with other iOS functions, maybe because I’m used to the way it works. Either way, I’m going to share some of the secrets that I’ve learned over the years.  Some you may know — some may be new!  First up 1 - Shake to Undo Okay — this is a basic iOS feature that works across all of its apps, but I feel like it is particularly important to know when working in Mail. If you accidentally delete a bunch of text, which I do ALL THE TIME, you can undo by shaking your device. This is a little less important since recently Apple added an undo button th...