In that location are many iOS electronic mail clients bachelor that provide button notifications for new email messages, just oftentimes these apps need to store your email login credentials on their servers, posing a security risk and ofttimes violating employee agreements by sharing these credentials with a tertiary party. The congenital-in Mail client in iOS provide this characteristic in a manner that doesn't store your credentials on Apple tree'south servers, as the email client has special admission to iOS to download your messages in the background without the need to employ an external server.

There are ii ways you can get push notifications for your important emails in iOS 12: You lot can specify individual contacts that will generate a button notification, or you lot can permit all emails from a particular email account to generate push notifications. Nosotros'll explore both of these options.

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How to manage e-mail notifications with Mail VIPs

If in that location are only a few contacts that y'all're concerned about getting e-mail notifications from, you tin use a lesser known feature of iOS Mail service called VIPs. Through this VIP list, y'all can specify contacts that volition generate push notifications on your iOS device to alert yous to new emails from the contact.

To gear up upward a contact in your VIPs, perform these steps.

  1. Open the Mail app.
  2. Navigate to the All Mailboxes view.
  3. Select the I push button beside of the VIP mailbox.
  4. Select Add together VIP… to select a contact and add them to the listing (Figure A).

Effigy A

Later on you lot configure the first contact in your VIP list, ensure that notifications are allowed for VIPs by tapping the VIP Alerts button to manage alerts. Ensure that the Allow Notifications pick is selected, and and then select the type of notification alert style y'all adopt (Figure B).

Figure B

In one case this is ready upward, whenever you receive a notification from a contact specified as a VIP, that e-mail bulletin will announced on your Lock Screen and Notification Centre to alert you to the arrival of the message.

How to generate notifications by email account

If you desire to get a push notification for every email bulletin on a particular email business relationship, you can configure such notifications on a per-account basis.

To configure notifications based on email account, follow these steps.

  1. Open up the Settings app.
  2. Navigate to Notifications | Mail.
  3. Select the email business relationship you wish to enable notifications on.
  4. Ensure Permit Notifications is enabled, and then select an Alert type: Lock Screen, Notification Center, or Banners (Figure C).

Effigy C

Later making this change, you will start receiving push notifications for all new emails received on the accounts for which you enabled notifications.