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This wikiHow teaches you how to change your mail settings so that messages sent to your iCloud.com email address arrive on your iPhone immediately.
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1Open your iPhone's Settings. It's an app with a gray gear icon on one of your home screens. It may be in a folder called “Utilities.”
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2Scroll down and tap Mail. It's in the fifth group of settings.Advertisement
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3Tap Accounts.
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4Tap Fetch New Data.
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5Slide the “Push” switch to the On position.
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6Tap iCloud.
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7Select Push. Now when someone sends an email to your iCloud email address, it will be “pushed” to your phone as soon as it's received by the server.[1]
- If you organize your mail with iCloud filters, you can choose not to push a certain mailbox by deselecting it under “Pushed Mailboxes.[2] ”
- Your iPhone can only receive pushed data when it's connected to the Internet.
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1. Open your Settings.
2. Tap Mail.
3. Tap Accounts.
4. Tap Fetch New Data.
5. Slide the “Push” switch to the On position.
6. Tap iCloud.
7. Select Push.
