I don’t see an option to do that.
Try Settings- Apps -Mail
there is a toggle under threading to put most recent on top.
That didn’t work. :(
Yeah, it’s not doing it for me either.
That setting is specific to a thread, not the whole inbox, which is what I think the OP is asking.
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Er, I’m not seeing it on a whole inbox.
Sorting an entire inbox in reverse order would encounter some problems. I’m pretty sure IMAP always loads from the top, so if you had hundreds or thousands of messages in a mailbox, loading everything to be able to reverse the sort would be expensive from a networking and computation standpoint.
Plus, although I don’t know this is true of Mail for sure, most iOS email apps don’t load entire mailboxes at once. They load the most recent messages and then continue loading if the user scrolls or does a search that requires earlier messages.
And then, of course, there’s the question of how this would be useful. I could imagine it with a mailbox that you’ve put relatively few messages into, but anything that’s been accumulating messages for years would be ridiculous: “Here’s your mail from 2009!”
That’s not to say this might not be useful, but it’s the sort of thing that makes sense mostly on a Mac where you have a larger screen, possibly faster connectivity, and more processing power for sorting.
Thanks the under-the-hood context @ace !
There are some use cases where this would be useful, and mail management/search methods users have developed where it would be useful to have more sorting capabilities, especially if they are busy and use iPhone heavily for email, or don’t have a computer at all.
It’s interesting that threads can be reordered but not an inbox. And that it involves a switch in Settings instead of a button in the app, like the Filter button fox example. A thread could have hundreds or more emails in it too.
Instead of sorting I suppose a user who knew roughly the date they were seeking could use a search. Hm I just tried that and maybe my syntax was wrong as the results were not even close to what I expected. Interesting that date is not in the Filter options. Ah well.