In iOS 14, instead of launching Apple’s Mail app every time you tap an email address, you can choose Spark, Outlook, Gmail, or another mail app as your default. This has a lot of benefits, but also a few drawbacks.
How to Change the Default Email App on iPhone or iPad
Until now, whenever you tapped an email link on your Apple device, Mail would open, even if you were using another email app like Gmail. Worse yet, whenever you used the share sheet to email something from another app, you got the standard iOS Mail window. So even if you never used the built-in Mail app, you had to configure it to use the share feature. All that is gone: now you can set up an email app to take over. But should you care?
“No, because I hate most email clients,” La Stampa reporter Andrea Nepori told Lifewire via message. “Also, [Apple’s Mail app] has learned some of my usual actions, so it’s faster for me.”
Choosing new defaults is pretty easy, but Apple has done a good job of hiding the settings. It’s almost like they don’t want you to know about them.
