Better e-mail management comes to iPhone

Apple has an odd habit of slipping unannounced changes into their updates, and sometimes those updates slip right past us, too. Such is the case with the iPhone’s Mail program. Although sending and receiving e-mail has always been a breeze, managing that e-mail has not. Everything pretty much gets dumped where it wants to get dumped, and bypassing that can be a headache, especially if your e-mail account falls outside Apple’s happy network (MobileMe, Gmail, etc.).

Setting up and managing accounts still isn’t as straightforward as it could be, but working with e-mails once they come in has seen a nice improvement. Before, you had to treat each e-mail as its own entity. If you wanted to delete a bunch, you had to do it one at time, or in one fell swoop. Not good if you had 30 e-mails in a folder and wanted to delete 29. But, if you haven’t checked your iPhone’s e-mail lately, do so now.

Find out why after the break.