Icloud email works fine. With icloud plu$, you can alias fake email addresses that forward to your inbox and can be deactivated if and when they collect spam.
Firefox said on the most recent update that it also offers email aliases (but forward to what? I didn't check)
There are also some security features (in settings) standard.
I tried to stop message threading, but Apple Mail still offers "context", which tucks a previous message below the current one. In my case, I replied to an individual in a group message, and they replied to me individually, but it looked for all hell like the reply was to the group, which was an embarrassing optical illusion.
I really ask email to do as litte as possible.
A lot of my (extremely long) Apple experience consists of turning off gratuitous features that interfere with my workflow. But mail is reliable, and also accessible at icloud.com (log in) if you enable icloud web access.
You can continue using Gmail through the Apple Mail app with "Hide IP Address" and "Block All Remote Content" enabled, which significantly reduces Google's tracking capabilities while maintaining access to your Gmail history and account across all platforms.
I got my Gmail account back when it was in invite-only beta. I tried moving to iCloud, and ProtonMail… it never happened. I have too much history, too many places have that Gmail account and I don’t even know who. Even if I had an exhaustive list, changing it everywhere would likely be impossible.
I recently decided to give up and start divesting from the other accounts.
I will likely keep the iCloud Mail account, since I use iCloud for contacts, calendar, etc.. but it’s only my dad and a few accounts that it’s used for these days.
When I went to ProtonMail, I religiously tracked every time I used it anywhere so I should be able to unwind it.
I want to divest from Google as a whole, I even pay for Kagi. However, at this point it would be impossible to actually delete my account. All I did by trying was complicate my life and confuse everyone. I told my family to use iCloud to email me and my dad was the only person who actually switched. I suffered in this purgatory of email providers for probably the last 10+ years before recently coming to my senses.
I do just use the email though. I don’t use Gmail as the reason to use all of Google’s information management stuff. I don’t use Drive, Docs, Keep, Tasks, Contacts, Calendar, or any of that other stuff. Gmail, YouTube, and Maps (for points of interest and business information… not navigation). Early on with the iPhone where were weird sync issues when trying to use Google Contacts with the Apple apps, due to some different fields in play, so I moved away from all of that and never looked back. In my personal life, the crossover between mail and calendar is pretty light, and I only send email to a few people where contacts integration also isn’t a big deal.
I did have about 5 alt gmail accounts. I did recently go through those, migrate some accounts, and delete those in full, so that was nice. But most of them had been sitting largely unused for 10 years, which made it easier. I’ve also been using the same password manager for nearly 20 years, so that was also a huge help.
in my country we don't use text messages or emails to contact but whatsapp (so no emails) I have 7 gmail accounts, 1 main one, a secondary one that I manage for a family member and another older one that I have just for nostalgia, I use the others for spam. I only use Apple apps and they work great for me.I could never use proton mail as the main one, the apple services I use are: reminders, apple maps, imessage, drive, and other apple apps, they work. owned by google I only use youtube and gmail
I connected Gmail to the Mail app on MacOS via IMAP, backed that up to iCloud, and setup my personal custom domain with iCloud Customer Domains. I then forwarded the Gmail to it and deleted all the mail on the Gmail side. I would not go back to Gmail, I considered getting rid of the Google account entirely recently. Hide My Email is also really nice and easy if you use Safari.
You are a good candidate for AppleCare. You will worry about the phone a lot less and be able to afford repairs.
As for email, why limit yourself to just one? If you really want to dump Gmail then buy a domain and sign up with the email provider of your choice. It isn’t expensive and is easier than you think. Then you aren’t platform locked at all.
for me it would be useless (I think) to buy a domain, I don't send many emails (about a couple a month) I just have to receive them. in my country we only use whatsapp for everything, emails only when you have to deal with government services or sign-up to social media and stuff
Icloud email works fine. With icloud plu$, you can alias fake email addresses that forward to your inbox and can be deactivated if and when they collect spam.
Firefox said on the most recent update that it also offers email aliases (but forward to what? I didn't check)
There are also some security features (in settings) standard.
I tried to stop message threading, but Apple Mail still offers "context", which tucks a previous message below the current one. In my case, I replied to an individual in a group message, and they replied to me individually, but it looked for all hell like the reply was to the group, which was an embarrassing optical illusion.
I really ask email to do as litte as possible.
A lot of my (extremely long) Apple experience consists of turning off gratuitous features that interfere with my workflow. But mail is reliable, and also accessible at icloud.com (log in) if you enable icloud web access.
I have iCloud plu$. I’ve tried Gmail account in app mail but I didn’t like it, but I will try again
You can continue using Gmail through the Apple Mail app with "Hide IP Address" and "Block All Remote Content" enabled, which significantly reduces Google's tracking capabilities while maintaining access to your Gmail history and account across all platforms.
I got my Gmail account back when it was in invite-only beta. I tried moving to iCloud, and ProtonMail… it never happened. I have too much history, too many places have that Gmail account and I don’t even know who. Even if I had an exhaustive list, changing it everywhere would likely be impossible.
I recently decided to give up and start divesting from the other accounts.
I will likely keep the iCloud Mail account, since I use iCloud for contacts, calendar, etc.. but it’s only my dad and a few accounts that it’s used for these days.
When I went to ProtonMail, I religiously tracked every time I used it anywhere so I should be able to unwind it.
I want to divest from Google as a whole, I even pay for Kagi. However, at this point it would be impossible to actually delete my account. All I did by trying was complicate my life and confuse everyone. I told my family to use iCloud to email me and my dad was the only person who actually switched. I suffered in this purgatory of email providers for probably the last 10+ years before recently coming to my senses.
I do just use the email though. I don’t use Gmail as the reason to use all of Google’s information management stuff. I don’t use Drive, Docs, Keep, Tasks, Contacts, Calendar, or any of that other stuff. Gmail, YouTube, and Maps (for points of interest and business information… not navigation). Early on with the iPhone where were weird sync issues when trying to use Google Contacts with the Apple apps, due to some different fields in play, so I moved away from all of that and never looked back. In my personal life, the crossover between mail and calendar is pretty light, and I only send email to a few people where contacts integration also isn’t a big deal.
I did have about 5 alt gmail accounts. I did recently go through those, migrate some accounts, and delete those in full, so that was nice. But most of them had been sitting largely unused for 10 years, which made it easier. I’ve also been using the same password manager for nearly 20 years, so that was also a huge help.
in my country we don't use text messages or emails to contact but whatsapp (so no emails) I have 7 gmail accounts, 1 main one, a secondary one that I manage for a family member and another older one that I have just for nostalgia, I use the others for spam. I only use Apple apps and they work great for me.I could never use proton mail as the main one, the apple services I use are: reminders, apple maps, imessage, drive, and other apple apps, they work. owned by google I only use youtube and gmail
I connected Gmail to the Mail app on MacOS via IMAP, backed that up to iCloud, and setup my personal custom domain with iCloud Customer Domains. I then forwarded the Gmail to it and deleted all the mail on the Gmail side. I would not go back to Gmail, I considered getting rid of the Google account entirely recently. Hide My Email is also really nice and easy if you use Safari.
You are a good candidate for AppleCare. You will worry about the phone a lot less and be able to afford repairs.
As for email, why limit yourself to just one? If you really want to dump Gmail then buy a domain and sign up with the email provider of your choice. It isn’t expensive and is easier than you think. Then you aren’t platform locked at all.
I don't know where you live but here in Italy when I discovered Applecare it had already expired without the possibility of activating it
for me it would be useless (I think) to buy a domain, I don't send many emails (about a couple a month) I just have to receive them. in my country we only use whatsapp for everything, emails only when you have to deal with government services or sign-up to social media and stuff
The iCloud Mail Spam filter is weird, it filters out a lot of legit mail for me.
I am all in on the Apple ecosystem with 5 Apple devices. My Apple ID which I’ve had since 2003 (iTunes) is attached to a Yahoo email address.
iCloud email just uses standard protocols and can be used with any email app. You just have to go on the web and create an “app specific password”
https://support.apple.com/en-us/102654
But why move to iCloud? I even use Apple’s Hide My Email with my yahoo account.