avateriCloud Mail vs Google Mail - what are your opinions?
HootinNHollerinProton mail
This is the way
Same. Switched to iCloud to get better privacy but iCloud would send a lot of normal and important emails straight to my junk folder. So I’m making the switch to proton.
VeniconeUsed to use Gmail, moved over to Icloud mail when I made the switch to Apple. I love how it scans the mail to add any event into my calendar if I want it to.
Sometimes a wee bit temperamental though
what do you mean by that ?
Temperamental? Like sometimes I would get an email and it wouldn’t show on the app but if I logged in to iCloud in the web it would be there. Also sometimes it hangs when refreshing but these problems seem to be less than previously.
I’ve almost finished transition to iCloud. No issues at all. I value my privacy more and more and with news google is going to train their LLMs on your content it was a no brainer for me.
Yeah this is also my concern at the moment
Do you have a source for that last bit? Not doubting, just genuinely want to learn about this if true.
Still using my gmail from the early days. Would like to use iCloud but switching would cause a lot of pain I feel. So many accounts using this address. Nowadays I use apples generated email addresses but even those redirect to the gmail address so…
but can’t you just redirect all the google stuff to apple mail and then change the mail for every important service?
It’s like moving when you ask the postal service to send your stuff to your new adress, so you won’t lose anything
That would be possible. It just wouldn’t change a lot in my case. Mails would still be on the Google server or at least processed by them if I’d delete them after redirecting. And I don’t use the gmail client but spark. Moving would just be for the sake of the data not being in googles hands anymore.
Maybe I’ll just have to plan in some time on the weekend and go through all of my services…
The search function on the apple mail app on phone is absolutely dreadful. I always have to go to gmail to search again. Otherwise I’d be happy to jump
magmaus3Disroot is a better provider than those two.
I prefer my mail provider doesn’t data mine my email to sell me products.
glacialsI wrote a whole thing on this, but tldr; I switched from Gmail to iCloud about a year ago. Gmail is better at filters, search, web UI, and spam filtering. iCloud is better at native UI, offline support, and ecosystem integration.
Overall I’m happy with it but only because I’m willing to pay the costs for the benefits, which I think is pretty rare.
Gmail’s auto and manual tagging system is better and easier to use than iCloud’s folders and archive is better in gmail where it’s basically just another folder on iCloud. iCloud doesn’t have ads though and better supports custom domains.
I just switched to iCloud from gmail so we will see if iCloud grows on me
bootyberrypancakesI haven’t used gmail in years, but I switched my domain email from Outlook and O365 to iCloud about a year ago to save a few dollars a month (already have iCloud+ 200gb). Pretty much just works how I expect email to, haven’t had any issues. I used Apple Mail already on my devices so same UI and everything for me.
iCloud Mail doesn’t have any advanced features, but it works great, it has no ads, it’s form a company with a good reputation, and it’s very cheap.
If the feature set has what you need, I wouldn’t even consider Gmail.
Paul Hulford@abhibeckert what advanced features would you want?
How good is the search feature in iCloud mail? How does it compare to gmail? Can you quickly and accurately find stuff?
I use both, though I don’t really use icloud email. I mostly use gmail because of the ease of access to it’s library of apps. And for me it’s much easier to upload/download files to google drive then it is to the icloud.
worst thing about icloud mail is the terrible junk filtering which you literally cannot disable and always has false positives. best you can do is set up a rule to move junk to inbox.
I use iCloud mail because everything I own is Apple. You just can’t beat how it syncs between my phone, Watch, iPad & MacBook. FWIW, the native mail app is the only one that can compose a new email from scratch on an Apple Watch. I’m all in with Apple services.
I switched from Gmail to iCloud and from iCloud to Fastmail. Couldn’t be happier. Give it a try.
iCloud Mail 🏆