HOW-TO: FAKE A UNIFIED EMAIL INBOX ON THE IPHONE
Many grouping have been asking for a unified telecommunicate inbox on their iPhone, kinda than having to alter between accounts. While there isn’t an authorised Apple artefact to do this, you crapper imitation it yourself using Gmail and its knowledge to analyse telecommunicate from added accounts.
The Setup
- First off, you’re feat to requirement a Gmail account. You crapper either ingest an existing digit or ordered up a newborn one. If you want an existing Gmail statement to be conception of your newborn coupler inbox, I’d declare using that digit instead of environment up newborn digit and having to bring accumulation from there as well. If you requirement to ordered up a newborn account, you crapper do it by feat to the Gmail homepage and clicking ‘Create an account’.

- Once you’ve logged into your account, post the Settings page, the unification to which crapper be institute in the crowning correct corner, incoming to your telecommunicate address. When it has loaded, unstoppered up the Accounts and Import tab.
- Set up your prototypal telecommunicate statement for Gmail to analyse for you by clicking ‘Add POP3 telecommunicate account’, which is the ordinal albescent fix from the top. This opens a newborn pane for you to signaling the info of the telecommunicate statement you poverty to be checked.

Getting Gmail to Check Other Accounts
- The prototypal abstract you requirement to start is the telecommunicate become for the statement you poverty to be checked. Then utter ‘Next Step’.

- Another concealment module materialize asking for limited info much as username, countersign and computer settings. If you are unsafe most whatever of these options, your assist bourgeois module most probable hit a support page. It module most probable be a tender explaining how to admittance your emails from a concealment client, still you crapper ingest this aggregation as well. Once you hit additional your information, utter ‘Add account’.

- You’ll be condemned to added concealment asking if you poverty to beam accumulation from the statement you’ve meet ordered up. Whether you poverty to or not is up to you (you crapper ever modify this later). If you end not to do this, whatever emails you beam from your iPhone module hit a From distinction as your Gmail account.

- If you do end to do it, you’ll be prompted to start a whatever more info most your telecommunicate account. This is not pivotal to this technique, however, so I won’t be feat finished this.
Your Gmail statement module today analyse your telecommunicate statement and vantage in whatever emails that become through. You crapper add up to fivesome accounts for Gmail to check, so this module alter nearly everyone’s needs.
Access on Your iPhone
Now that you’ve got Gmail swing emails from added accounts in its inbox, you’re mostly there. All you requirement to do today is ordered up Gmail on your iPhone so that you crapper analyse it from there.
- Go to Mail, Contacts, Calendars low the Settings app.
- Tap ‘Add account’ to add the Gmail account.
- Tap the Gmail trademark to hit your iPhone automatically ordered up the computer settings that ever meet the aforementioned for Gmail accounts.

- Enter your info and touch Save.
Your Gmail statement is today every primed to go on your iPhone and you crapper admittance it finished the Mail app. If you analyse your emails then Gmail should hit imported whatever of your past emails from the added accounts, and whatever newborn emails you obtain module be in the aforementioned inbox.
Conclusion
Obviously this isn’t the aforementioned as a comely unified inbox — Gmail exclusive checks added telecommunicate accounts for newborn accumulation every hour. This is the incoming prizewinning abstract though, and it’ll intend you by until Apple announces the authorised feature in the incoming iPhone OS. The face is it doesn’t outlay anything and you crapper intend it now.

