However, you can change where you see the previews and whether or not you want to use a column layout. The classic layout has been updated and you no longer have that option within your Mail Preferences. Lather, rinse, repeat.ĭepending on your OS, version of the app, etc., once you have selected a bunch of email messages you may have to use this trick to deselect them.With macOS Catalina, Apple made a change to the layout of the Mail app. Then we selected all of the ones with a pink background and reset those to white. So for example in our image below, in order to remove the background highlight colors we had to first select all of the orange highlighted messages, and set those to white (using the color picker from Format > Show Colors). What we have found is that if you have several different highlight colors, as in our image below, you have to select all of the images of one color, reset those to white, then select all of the messages that have a different color, reset those to white, and so on. To remove the background color from previously highlighted messages you have to go into the message list and select the colored messages and reset the color to white. How to Remove a Highlighted Background Color from Email in Your Messages List in Apple Mail You can uncheck or even delete that rule under Mail > Preferences > Rules, but that will not clear the colored background from email that you have already received! So here’s what you need to do. In this case we chose to use red, because spam makes us see red.īut the really tricky bit is this: suppose that you created a rule that turned the background of all email of a certain type a certain color, and now you want to undo that rule. This will bring up the color palette from which you can select any color.Ĭlick on the color you want, and the individual message will then be highlighted with that background color. Just select the message that you want to highlight and then go up to the menu bar and select ‘Format > Show Colors’.
You do that from the message list itself. What if you want to highlight just one specific email in your message list, maybe the one that includes your kid’s Paypal address to send them that money while they are away at college? How to Set a Background Color for Just a Single Message So that’s how to add color backgrounds to color code certain types of email in your email message list. As you can see, we tend to color-code spam to make it easy to identify it and easy to delete it. You can do this with as many rules as you like. Set Color > of background > (whatever color you want) Your tips via CashApp, Venmo, or Paypal are appreciated! Receipts will come from ISIPP.Ĭreate a new rule based on the email address, or some specific word or phrase, and then select ‘Perform the following actions:’ The Internet Patrol is completely free, and reader-supported.
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