Your iPhone’s inbox can become a tangled mess of emails from multiple recipients. iOS 10 now includes a Settings option to turn on Complete Threads, which will let you see every message within the thread — including sent messages and ones stored outside your mailbox.

You can also mute notifications for a particular thread, which will keep you from seeing new messages that belong to it until you read them.

View All Messages in a Thread

When you send and receive multiple messages in a thread, they tend to accumulate over time and take up space on your phone. While the stock Messages app does not have an option to delete them all, you can manage them on a regular basis to clear up space and keep your device tidy.

There are a few options available to help you manage your message threads, including the ability to view all messages in a thread. Whether you need to see all the pictures, videos, links, or documents shared in a thread, you can access them through Settings and iMessage on your iPhone or iPad.

Alternatively, you can search for a phrase, word, event, or person within a thread, which will display messages that match your search term. Depending on the type of search you perform, other messages in the thread may also appear below your search results.

In some cases, it can be difficult to navigate a large number of messages in a thread, especially when you’re looking for the latest message. To help with this, you can turn on a feature called Collapse Read Messages in Mail’s preferences to make it easier to navigate.

Another helpful setting is Most Recent Message on Top, which positions the most recent message at the top of the thread instead of the oldest. This can be a great way to scan a busy thread, but you can choose to disable it if you prefer a more chronological approach.

Complete Threads is a similar option that shows all messages in the thread, even those that are stored in different mailboxes. This can be useful for those who have important conversation emails saved in their main mailbox and would like to keep track of the original thread.

Lastly, you can mute or close a thread if you’re not involved in it. This will clear away the clutter in the channel sidebar for everyone.

iMessage threads are a great way to communicate with others and discuss a topic in more detail. But they can also get messy with all the images, videos, and other attachments you share over time. Fortunately, there’s a hidden feature in iMessage that lets you delete the unnecessary photos and videos from a thread.

Collapse Read Messages

The iPhone has a plethora of email applications but Mail is the star of the show. While the latest version isn’t quite as slick as the desktop version, it can still get your pulse racing if you’re into email as a hobby or business. One of the coolest new features is complete threads which lets you see every single message in a thread and sort it by newest first or oldest last. Aside from displaying all your email inboxes, the main halo of this functionality is that you don’t have to scroll through thousands of old messages to find that important message or email.
Most Recent Message on Top

There’s no doubt that Apple’s Messages app is the best way to send and receive text messages. Unfortunately, the app is not without its flaws. For example, there’s no built-in way to find or delete old text messages if you don’t have an iCloud backup. Luckily, you can fix most of these issues with a few simple taps on the screen.

One of the most useful features in the Messages app is its ability to show you what messages are most relevant to you at any given time. This feature is particularly useful when you’re looking to find an old message that you may have deleted from your inbox. You can do this by using a combination of keyword searches, tapping on your newest messages or even using the app’s built-in search function. The app will also display a list of your recently read messages. You can also filter these by date and other attributes, like content type and subject. The app even has a built-in tool to recommend new conversations to you based on your preferences.

Mute

There are some instances in which you don’t want to receive a flurry of notifications for an email thread. For example, if you’re a part of a chatty group email thread where everyone is “Replying All” with their own email, those notifications can be really annoying and distract you from getting work done.

Apple’s Mail app has a nifty feature that lets you mute messages in a thread to silence those annoying alerts. The feature works for both iMessages and SMS texts, and you can even mute conversations with just one person.

The process is simple enough, and muting a conversation only takes seconds. To do it, launch the Mail app and select an inbox where you’d like to mute an email thread. Then, simply swipe left on the message and choose “More.” This will bring up a pop-up menu with an option to mute it.

Once you’ve chosen to mute the thread, you can see that it is muted on your screen with a small bell icon and diagonal line through it. This makes it easy to identify which threads you’ve muted, and helps you distinguish them from the rest of the unmuted messages in your mailbox with a quick glance.

Another nice feature is that the muted thread will automatically be marked as read and won’t be notified of new incoming replies in the same way as normal emails would. However, if you ever need to unmute the thread, all you have to do is follow the same process again and swipe left on the message to access the hidden options, then choose “Unmute” from the popup menu.

Besides, you can also change the default action of this nifty trick by customizing the action to archive or delete any new messages that hit muted threads as well. To do that, open Settings on your iOS 13 or later device and tap Mail from the root list.

Once you’ve set your preferences, the muted thread will be marked as read on all devices using the same iCloud account going forward. It’ll also be unmuted across those devices when you next open Mail on that device.