iCloud User Guide
- Welcome
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- Sign in and use iCloud.com
- Customise and use the homepage
- Keynote
- Numbers
- Pages
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- Photos on iCloud.com overview
- View your photos and videos
- Hide your photos and videos
- Use iCloud Shared Photo Library
- Upload and download photos
- Add a title or caption
- Organise photos and videos
- Add photos and videos to Favourites
- Play a slideshow of photos
- Delete and recover photos and videos
- Share photos and videos
- Recover files and information
- Use iCloud on your Windows computer
- Get more help with iCloud
- Legal notices and acknowledgements
- Copyright
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Read email in Mail on iCloud.com
You can view mail sent to your @icloud.com email address and any aliases in Mail on iCloud.com. If you have iCloud+, you can also view mail sent to your custom email domain addresses.
To view your iCloud Mail on other devices, see Set up iCloud Mail on all your devices.
Note: Custom Email Domain is not available in all countries or regions.
Read an email
In Mail on iCloud.com, click Inbox in the Mailboxes list.
If you want to see a list of emails in a different mail folder, click that folder instead. For example, click Sent to see a list of emails you sent.
Select the email in your email list.
In your email list, emails are labeled with the following icons:
Icon | Description | ||||||||||
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![]() | An email is unread. | ||||||||||
![]() | An email contains an attachment. See Download email attachments from Mail on iCloud.com. | ||||||||||
![]() | An email that you replied to. See Reply to or forward email in Mail on iCloud.com. | ||||||||||
![]() | An email that you forwarded. See Reply to or forward email in Mail on iCloud.com. | ||||||||||
![]() | An email that you flagged. See Search, filter and flag email in Mail on iCloud.com. |
Check for new emails
Your emails are updated automatically, but you can also manually refresh them.
In Mail on iCloud.com, click
at the top of the Mailboxes list.
Mark an email as unread
In Mail on iCloud.com, select the email or emails you want to mark as unread in your email list.
Do one of the following:
If you selected one email: Click
, then click Mark as Unread.
If you selected more than one email: Click Mark, then click “Mark as Unread”.
You can mark individual emails in a conversation as unread. Click in the bottom right-hand corner of the email, then click Mark as Unread.
If you cannot read an email because it is encrypted, open it from one of your trusted devices. See What is a digitally signed and encrypted email?