Add accounts, choose folders, run checks, and search recent email previews with read/unread filters.
Email Alert
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Priority email alerts, without inbox drag.
Email Alert lets you add email accounts, create focused alerts, and manage VIP senders. Home keeps user-created account and alert panes separate from the fixed Email, Alerts, and VIPs controls that always stay at the bottom.
Alerts
Create focused alerts for sender, domain, subject keywords, attachments, folders, or VIP senders.
VIPs
Add or remove VIP email addresses; once VIPs exist, Home shows matched VIP message counts.
How It Works
- Use the Email pane to add an account.
- Use the Alerts pane to create the messages that should stand out.
- Use the VIPs pane to maintain important senders.
- Use the account and alert panes above those controls to review, edit, and tune what you created.
Home Structure
- User-created panes can be reordered.
- Email, Alerts, and VIPs controls stay fixed at the bottom.
- VIP Messages appears only after at least one VIP email is saved.
- Past matched alerts stay searchable from the alert history flow.
Current System
Email Pane
Add accounts from the fixed Email pane. Existing account panes can check, open, configure, or remove an account.
Alerts Pane
Add alerts from the fixed Alerts pane. Saved alert panes can be reviewed, edited, paused, or deleted.
VIPs Pane
Manage VIP addresses from the fixed VIPs pane. VIP messages get their own count and view once VIPs exist.
Why This Green
The alert green is intentional. Human daylight vision is commonly modelled by the CIE photopic luminous efficiency function, which peaks around 555 nm in the green-yellow part of the spectrum. Email Alert uses a digital approximation of that high-visibility signal colour because this is an alert-based app.
References: CIE luminous efficacy definition and IES definition of the CIE photopic luminous efficiency function.
What To Expect
The current release-readiness pass is focused on stability for physical iPhone 12 UX testing: a clear Home hierarchy, predictable bottom management panes, searchable email previews, practical alert editing, and VIP sender management that is separate from VIP message viewing.