How to change email on iPhone

You have created a new email address, would you like to use it on your iPhone instead of what you’ve used so far but you do not know how to do it? Are you tired of the limitations of the iOS Mail app – first of all the inability to receive push notifications from Gmail – but you do not know which alternative solutions to rely on? No problem, you’ve come to the right place at the right time!

With today’s tutorial, in fact, I’ll explain how to change email on iPhone in order to replace the default address set in the Mail app and / or the iCloud account used for online data synchronization. Also, if you need it, I’ll list a number of alternative clients that can replace Mail very well and fill many of its shortcomings.

In short: whatever your needs, if you need a hand to manage the email on your iPhone, you do not have to do is take five minutes of free time and put into practice the instructions that you find below. I assure you that even if you are not a technology expert, you will be able to set up your “iPhone” and the apps for managing emails on the latter in no time. Good reading and good work!

Index

• How to change email on iPhone
  – Set the default email address on iPhone
• Change iCloud accounts on iPhone
• Change email clients on iPhone

How to change email on iPhone

Do you want to change the email address set on your iPhone and replace it with a different one? Nothing easier: the first step you need to take is to go to the settings of the “iPhone” and remove the e-mail address that you do not intend to use anymore.

Then press the Settings icon on the home screen (gear), go to Account and password and tap the email account you want to delete (eg Gmail or Outlook). Then, tap the Delete account item at the bottom of the screen that opened, confirm the operation by pressing the Delete button from iPhone and you’re done

How to change email on iPhone

If you want to delete an iCloud account from Mail, select it from the Settings> iOS Account and Password menu and move the lever for the Mail option to OFF.

By doing so, you will remove the iCloud account from Mail but will not disable the online data synchronization functions (contacts, photos, videos, reminders, etc.) with the famous Apple service. If you want to completely delete an iCloud account from the iPhone to replace it with another, follow the instructions in the next chapter of this tutorial.

How to change email on iPhone

Now you just have to configure the new email address you want to use on the iPhone. Back then in the Settings menu of iOS, go to Account and password and presses the entry Add account that is below.

On the next screen, choose the email service that includes the email address you want to add to the iPhone: iCloud, Exchange, Google, Yahoo !, AOL or Outlook.com; log in by entering the username and password of your account, choose which items to synchronize with the iPhone between mail, contacts, calendars, reminders and notes (using the appropriate levette) and presses on the item Save placed in the upper right corner save the settings.

How to change email on iPhone

If the email address you want to configure on your iPhone does not refer to any of the providers mentioned above, go to the Settings menu> Account and password of iOS, presses on the item Add account and select the item Other and then that Add account Mail from the screen that opens.

At this point, fill out the form that is proposed to you with your name, the email address you want to add on the iPhone, the password to access it and a description for it; presses the Forward button (located at the top right) and enter the IMAP or POP parameters of the email service to which your email address belongs in the appropriate text fields. Finally, presses the Next button, choose which items to synchronize with iOS (mail, contacts, calendars, etc.) and press Save to complete the configuration of the account.

How to change email on iPhone

Set the default email address on iPhone

If you have decided to set a new email address on the iPhone without deleting the one (or the ones) that you had previously set, you will probably want to set the latter as the default Mail account, ie as an address to send mail by default through the client of Apple mail.

To choose which email address to use as the default address in Mail for iOS, go to the Settings> iOS Mail menu, tap on the Default Account option at the bottom of the screen and put the check mark next to the account name that you want to use as a default in Mail (eg Gmail).

How to change email on iPhone

For the management of contacts is the same thing: if you want to make sure that the address book of iOS synchronize email addresses and phone numbers with a service other than iCloud, go to the menu Settings> Contacts and choose the service of your preference through the ‘Default account option.

Change iCloud accounts on iPhone

Have you created a new iCloud account and want to use it on your iPhone instead of the one currently set on your phone? Nothing could be easier. First, however, I suggest you make a complete backup of the data on the “iPhone” and download the data of your interest, primarily photos and videos, from the iCloud account you are about to remove from the iPhone.

If you do not know how to download photos from iCloud, read my tutorial dedicated to the topic. If, instead, you need a hand to make a local backup of the data on the iPhone, see my guide on how to backup iPhone.

How to change email on iPhone

Once you’ve saved all the data you’re interested in, you can remove the current iCloud account from your iPhone. Go then in the Settings menu of iOS (the gear icon located on the home screen), tap on your name, scroll to the bottom of the screen that opens and presses the Exit button.

At this point, enter the password of your Apple ID, press the Deactivate button and confirm your desire to delete the iCloud account from the device by pressing the appropriate button.

Once disconnected from your current iCloud account, you can set up a new account on the iPhone simply by going to the Settings menu of iOS and pressing on the item Log in to iPhone. Easier than that ?!

If you do not know a few steps, take a look at my tutorial on how to activate iCloud on iPhone where I explained how to best configure an iCloud account on the Apple smartphone.

Change email clients on iPhone

How to change email on iPhone