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Using the home screen widget

The SmartMail widget shows the unread count and your latest emails on your phone's home screen.

  • Any user who has signed in to the app

How do you use the home screen widget?

The SmartMail widget shows the unread count and your latest emails on your phone's home screen. Who can do this: Any user who has signed in to the app. The widget refreshes when you leave the app and return to the home screen: reading, archiving or changing the theme for an email in the app is reflected in the widget immediately. Press and hold an empty area on the home screen and select Widgets.

Add widget

  1. Press and hold an empty area on the home screen and select Widgets.

  2. Find the SmartMail widget in the list (description: unread count and latest incoming emails) and drag it to the home screen.

  3. If your phone asks, select which mailbox to show; All shows all your mailboxes together.

SmartMail widget on the home screen
  1. 1Mailbox selection
  2. 2New email
  3. 3Email
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Use widget

  1. Tap the mailbox name in the top left 1. From the Which mailbox should be shown? window, select the mailbox to appear in the widget 4 5.

  2. To write a new email, tap the plus icon 2.

  3. Tap an email 3; it opens in the app under the account it belongs to.

  4. If the list is long, Show more appears at the end; when you tap it, the list stays in place and new emails are added below.

Widget box selection window
  1. 4Which mailbox should be shown?
  2. 5Select mailbox
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Note The widget refreshes when you leave the app and return to the home screen: reading an email, archiving it or changing the theme in the app is reflected in the widget immediately. When the app is closed, it refreshes about every half an hour.
Caution When there is no connection, the widget keeps its last view; if it could not be drawn at all, it says Could not connect.

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