Prioritize Your Favorite Contacts with Apple’s VIP Mail

We all get too much spam and junk in our email inboxes. If you don't want to miss emails from important contacts, you can set up VIP iPhone email in the Apple Mail app. VIP Mail allows you to filter emails by creating a VIP mailbox, so you can make sure to receive emails from the most important people.

Why You'll Love This Tip

• Make an iPhone VIP email folder to ensure you receive the most important emails from your favorite contacts.
• Cut through the junk and spam mail by putting important mail in a separate iPhone VIP Mail inbox.
• Create an iPhone VIP Mailbox that won't remove VIP contacts from the regular email inbox.

How to Set Up VIP Mail on iPhone

When you set up an iPhone VIP mailbox, your VIPs will have a brown star next to their names across all of your mail lists, and if you have iCloud enabled, that same person will be a VIP across all of your devices. Now, here's how to set up iPhone email VIP notification for your important contacts.

1. On your iPhone, open the Mail app.
2. If it opens to a particular inbox, tap the back arrow to go to all Mailboxes.
3. If you haven't set up VIP before, tap the caret to the right of VIP.
4. Tap Add VIP.
5. If you've previously set up VIP mail, tap the info icon next to VIP to add or delete contacts from your VIP inbox.
6. Tap Add VIP.
7. Tap a name in your contact list, or tap the Search field, enter a name, and tap it.
8. You'll see your new VIP in the VIP List. Tap Done.
9. To edit or delete your VIP contacts, tap the Information icon again, then tap Edit.
10. Tap the red circle next to any VIP you want to remove, and tap the check mark when you're finished.

Note that adding someone to your iPhone VIP notifications list does not remove them from your Inbox mail list. You can also set up notifications so that you receive only Mail notifications from your VIP contacts.

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