The iPhone’s Mail app isn’t immune to Apple Intelligence. In fact, the new AI features are automatically enabled once you update to the appropriate version of iOS and enable Apple Intelligence. Bam, your email is now sorted into different inboxes. Apple uses its AI prowess to automatically categorize emails into different buckets, separating your transactions, updates, and promotional emails from your primary contacts. These aren’t customizable, but you’re at least free to re-categorize an email that’s clearly in the wrong tab.

Apple Intelligence’s summary feature is also central. Apple attempts to summarize an email or thread into a single line, directly under the subject.

If you find these features annoying or useless, you can easily disable them. If you want to see all your emails in a single list view, as has been the case for over a decade, there’s an easy way to get back. And if you find the email summaries distracting, you can quickly remove those, too.

Apple Intelligence’s category features are part of the iOS 18.2 update, which is currently available as a developer beta and will roll out as a relatively more stable public beta option soon. You probably don’t need to worry about them yet, at least if you only update when the features are in their final stages. But if you have an iPhone 15 Pro or later, you may already see email digests, as they arrived in iOS 18.1. Also introduced in iOS 18.1 was Priority Messaging, where Apple attempts to surface emails it deems most important to the top of your inbox.