iCloud User Guide
- Welcome
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- Sign in and use iCloud.com
- Customize and use the homepage tiles
- Keynote
- Numbers
- Pages
- Recover files and information
- Use iCloud on your Windows device
- Get more help with iCloud
- Legal notices and acknowledgements
- Copyright
Read email in Mail on iCloud.com
You can view mail sent to your @icloud.com email address and any aliases in Mail on iCloud.com. If you have iCloud+, you can also view mail sent to your custom email domain addresses.
To view your iCloud Mail on other devices, see Set up iCloud Mail on all your devices.
Note: Custom Email Domain isn’t available in all countries or regions.
Read an email
Go to icloud.com/mail, then sign in to your Apple Account (if necessary).
Click Inbox in the Mailboxes list.
If you want to see a list of emails in a different mail folder, click that folder instead. For example, click Sent to see a list of emails you sent.
Select the email in your email list.
In your email list, emails are labeled with the following icons:
Icon | Description | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | An email is unread. | ||||||||||
 | An email contains an attachment. See Download email attachments from Mail on iCloud.com. | ||||||||||
 | An email that you replied to. See Reply to or forward email in Mail on iCloud.com. | ||||||||||
 | An email that you forwarded. See Reply to or forward email in Mail on iCloud.com. | ||||||||||
 | An email that you flagged. See Search, filter, and flag email in Mail on iCloud.com. | ||||||||||
Check for new emails
Your emails are updated automatically, but you can also manually refresh them.
Go to icloud.com/mail, then sign in to your Apple Account (if necessary).
Click
at the top of the Mailboxes list.
Mark an email as unread
Go to icloud.com/mail, then sign in to your Apple Account (if necessary).
Select the email or emails you want to mark as unread in your email list.
Do one of the following:
Mark an email as unread: Click
, then click Mark as Unread.Mark an individual email in a conversation as unread: Click
in the bottom-right corner of the email, then click Mark as Unread.Mark multiple emails as unread: Click Mark, then click Mark as Unread.
Tip: You can also hold your pointer over an email in the message list, click 
, then choose Mark as Unread.
If you can’t read an email because it’s encrypted, open it from one of your trusted devices. See What is a digitally signed and encrypted email?