Feb 05, 2020 How to set your default email reader. Launch Mail from your dock or the Finder. Click Mail in the menu bar at the top of the screen. Click Preferences. Click the dropdown next to Default Mail Reader. Click the app you'd like to set as the default. Source: iMore. To change the default app for a file on macOS 10.15 and set a new one, click on the browser of your choice from the list. Change the Default Email Application. In the email department, Mail is the default application that macOS uses when opening emails. Despite being an old stalwart, Mail does not have cooler features of the modern email clients.
There was a lot to take in at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference this year, so you may have missed this important nugget of information: Apple will finally iOS users to their default email and web browser apps with the arrival of the new iOS 14.
Currently, if you were to write a new email message or click on a link, your iPhone or iPad would automatically open the Apple Mail or Safari apps. Obviously, this isn’t optimal if you use a different app to surf the web or check your email.
Change Default Mail Mac
There are a slew of popular third-party email clients, like Spark or even Google’s own Gmail app, and web browser apps, such as Chrome, in the App Store. Starting with iOS 14, you can change your default apps for email and web browsing to those, or to any other third-party options.
If you missed this in the 2020 WWDC keynote today, it’s not your fault. Apple didn’t exactly shout their new feature from the mountaintops. It was tucked away on a slide for the iPadOS and only popped up onscreen when Apple mentioned that the iPad would receive other new iOS features as well.
Jul 04, 2020 One of the slides in the WWDC presentation featured a block that announced users will be able to change their default browser and default email app. Support for changing default apps is a long. Second, default apps are the ones that are always used to do a certain thing. For example, when you tap a website link in an email, it always opens in Safari. That makes Safari the default web browser on your iPhone. When a website includes a physical address and you tap it to get directions, Apple Maps launches because it is the default.
That’s right, it didn’t even appear on the iOS slide that promoted all of the new features — probably because it means there’s a chance you won’t use Apple’s own email or web browser app. It is, however, as the one and only new Settings option when you scroll all the way down Apple’s iOS 14 Preview webpage.
Anyway, it’s a long-awaited and welcome addition to iOS devices!
Change your default web browser
- Choose System Preferences from the Apple () menu.
- Click General.
- Choose your web browser from the 'Default web browser' pop-up menu.
Mac Set Default Email Application
Change your default email app
- Open Mail.
- Choose Preferences from the Mail menu, then click General. Or, if you're prompted to set up an email account, add your account, then choose Preferences from the Mail menu.*
- Choose your email app from the 'Default email reader' pop-up menu.
Mac Change Default Mail App
* You can also set your default email app in the preferences of your third-party email app.