How to recover an email deleted by mistake in Apple Mail

We receive a lot of emails every day. From the confirmation that our new HomePod has shipped to the reminder that we have a sale in the supermarket, to an ad for sunglasses. Among all of them there is a good number of emails that we must attend to, which It leads us to have to clean regularly.

And in that cleaning it would not be the first time that, we accidentally deleted an email by mistake. Something that is more than expected, because both in Apple Mail and in other similar services, we can very easily recover an email deleted by mistake simply by going to the Trash.

A trash can to ensure we don’t delete by mistake

For those new to the platform, let’s review how to recover, in Apple Mail, an email deleted by mistake. A process that is the same on both our iPhone and our iPad or Mac, although with some small differences, and we can carry it out very easily. On our iPhone or iPad the exact steps are as follows:

1. We open the app Email on our iPhone or iPad.
2. If we are seeing a specific mailbox, we touch on < Mailboxes to see the full list on iPhone or the top left sidebar button on iPad.
3. If necessary, we display the account that interests us by touching the “>” on the right side of its name.
4. we play in Paper bin or in Removed.
5. We locate the email that interests us and keep pressing on it.
6. we choose move message.
7. We move it, for example, to Entrance.

On the Mac the steps are very similar., although slightly different due to variations in the interface. Specifically, we will do it like this:

1. We open the app Email on our Mac.
2. If it appears, in the menu Display we played in show sidebar.
3. Viewing the list of all the mailboxes, if necessary we display the account that interests us by touching the “>” that appears on the right side of its name when passing the mouse over it.
4. we play in Paper bin or in Removed.
5. We locate the email that interests us and secondary click on it.
6. We rest the mouse on top of move to and we choose, for example, Entrance.

Thanks to these simple steps, we can recover any mail that we have deleted by mistake. As we can see, a very simple process and much more common than one might expect. The trash can is right there to ensure that we don’t delete anything we don’t want to delete.

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