Getting email and text messages to your iPhone is a quick, efficient way to get communications. But there are times when you read a message and realize you can't or don't want to respond until later.

Jason Parker has been at CNET for nearly 15 years. He is the senior editor in charge of iOS software and has become an expert reviewer of the software that runs on each new Apple device. He now spends ...

Starting with iOS 16, Apple allows you to mark text messages as unread in the Messages app on your iPhone. You can mark a conversation as unread by swiping it to the right or by tapping and holding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How many times have you simply left all of your unimportant or promotional emails unread? Then, they pile up into a long scrolling ...

With the deluge of notifications we receive on a daily basis, it’s not always easy to respond right away. Luckily, iOS 16 has your back with a new feature that allows you to mark an message as unread ...

Unread has always been one of my favorite RSS clients due to its clean, elegant, gesture-based design, but as competing apps have continued advancing at a steady pace, Unread’s development stalled ...

Gmail lets you assign multiple labels to email messages to allow quick access to groups of messages. As an example, you may have labels for product inquiries, business advertisements, accounting and ...

For how much I write about tech, sometimes it’s shocking how low-tech my own methods can be. I’ve used such a practice to sort my email and keep track of what I need to action in it for a long time; I ...

Everyone I know seems to love Gmail, which is odd, really, when you consider that it makes so many things so darned difficult. One such task: Just show me my unread messages. Incomprehensibly, there's ...