How-to: Reorder iPhone email accounts to your liking | JOEyGADGET

How-to: Reorder iPhone email accounts to your liking

One thing that bugs me about the iPhone’s email program is the inability to rearrange the order of email accounts to my liking.

Unfortunately there’s no “Edit” button like Phone Favorites to drag names up or down to reorder them.

But there is a way to reorder your email accounts to your satisfaction. Here’s how:

  1. Plug in your iPhone and launch iTunes.
  2. Select your iPhone in the Devices column on the left, then click the Info tab at the top of the screen.
  3. Click “Sync selected mail accounts:” if it isn’t already selected.
  4. Uncheck any mail accounts that may be selected except the mail account you want to appear at the top of your email accounts list.
  5. Click Sync.
  6. When iTunes finishes syncing leave the prior mail account checked then check the mail account you want to appear as the next account on your email accounts list.
  7. Click Sync.
  8. Repeat step 6 for each additional mail account until you’ve synced them all.

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4 Responses to “How-to: Reorder iPhone email accounts to your liking”


  1. 1 Mark Schoneveld

    Thanks, Joey! This is a great tip for one big annoyance I’ve been wishing I could fix. Sweet.

  2. 2 Mark

    Thank you. Elegant solution that could have been made so much easier by our friends at Apple.

  3. 3 Ron

    Very nice! I’ll try this when I get home.

  4. 4 Ron

    Well this won’t work if none of the accounts on your iPhone were originally synced from your computer. Oh well.

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