From order comes mindful peace, and order comes from emailful folders. Find out here how to bring order to the emails on your phone and make a new email folder in Apple Mail on iPhone.
First, He Stopped Wearing Socks
First, he stopped wearing socks. Then, he became an official at the Swiss patent office.
Either way, before Albert Einstein, then not yet a famous physicist, stopped wearing socks, he found out an uncomfortable truth about the convenient garment: on his toes, they tended to develop holes:
“I found out that the big toe”, he wrote in a letter to a cousin, “always ends up making a hole in a sock.”
In at least some pictures of Einstein in later years, you can spot not part of a sock missing—but all of it, on either foot.
Now, looking at the email folders on your phone, do you spot something absent as well? Let’s add the missing mailboxes:
How to Make a New Email Folder in Mail for iPhone
Time needed: 2 minutes
To create a new folder for email in Mail for iPhone and iPad:
- Go to the Mailboxes list in iPhone Mail.
Here’s how: From any existing folder (such as the Inbox folder, for instance), tap < Mailboxes.
- Tap Edit in the top right on the Mailboxes screen.
- Select New Mailbox in to bottom right now.
Selecting an account: You need not pick the account or parent folder now; choose it later during folder creation.
- Type the name you want to use for the new folder over Name under New Mailbox.
Example.For a folder that collects your emails about a trip to volcanic Islands off the African coast, use
Cabo Verde, for instance. - Now tap the empty field under MAILBOX LOCATION.
No folder without a parent: You cannot create an email folder in iPhone Mail that does not belong to an account’s root or is the c child of another folder.
- Select the existing email folder under which you wan to set up the new one.
New root folder: To create a folder at the root, select the email account’s name at the top instead.
- Tap Save.
- Now tap Done to close Mailboxes editor.
How to Make a New Email Folder in Mail for iPhone: FAQ
Can I change the name of a folder?
Yes, for custom folders you can, of course, edit the name.
To change an email folder’s name in iPhone Mail:
- Go to the Mailboxes screen.
- Tap Edit.
- Now tap the folder whose name you want to change.
Fixed name: Note that you cannot select system folders such as the inbox—and cannot change their name either. - Edit the name as needed.
- Tap Save.
Can I move a folder in iPhone Mail?
Yes.
To move a folder to the root or a different parent folder in iPhone Mail:
- Open the Mailboxes list in iOS Mail.
- Tap Edit.
- Select the custom folder you want to move.
Only custom folders: You can only move email folders you have added to the account but not system folders such as trash, inbox, etc. - Tap the current parent folder (or account name) under MAILBOX LOCATION.
- Now tap the desired parent so it is checked.
- Tap Save.
(How to make a new email folder in Mail for iPhone tested with iOS 15–17; updated April 2024)