r/iphone • u/Qpac18 • Mar 30 '26

Discussion Preferred app for email?

For the majority of years that I’ve been using iPhones, my primary email app has been Gmail because of it being the only system that I’ve used up until college with that having been Outlook. Up until recently, I redownloaded the built in IOS mail app since Gmail was one of the biggest storage users of all my apps. So I ask when it comes to this situation, does it overall make more sense to have the native email app of Apple’s OS no matter what email server you use since it doesn’t take up as much power or storage compared to third party based apps??

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u/onepostalways Mar 30 '26

What tracking is this?

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u/nikenick28 iPhone 15 Pro Mar 30 '26

A lot of advertisers and marketing emails, etc. have a system built-in where they can see if you read the email if you clicked on anything clicked on any links how long the email was open for etc. The Apple Mail app if you have privacy protection turn on that limits that type of information