Getting Started with Spark: Tips and Tricks

Spark is an email client that offers a range of features and options to enhance your email experience. To get started with Spark, you can follow these steps:

Adding Accounts to Spark

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To add new accounts to Spark, simply tap the "Settings" icon and then select "Mail Accounts." This will allow you to add all sorts of accounts to Spark, including Google Exchange, Yahoo, iCloud, and Outlook. You can also use One Password to quickly log in to an account.

Syncing via iCloud

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One of the features that sets Spark apart from other email clients is its ability to sync your emails across all your devices using iCloud. This means that you can access your emails from any device, at any time, and they will always be up-to-date.

Customizing Your Email Experience

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Spark offers a range of options for customizing your email experience. For example, you can change the actions displayed on emails by going into "Settings" > "Email Viewer." This allows you to choose which actions to display on each email, such as "Delete," "Archive," or both.

Widgets and Sidebar

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Spark also offers a range of widgets that you can use to customize your email experience. These widgets are displayed on the sidebar and can be used to view attachments, recently seen emails, smart folders, and more. You can also customize the order in which these widgets appear by going into "Settings" > "Personalization" > "Widgets."

Using Widgets

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One of the most useful features of Spark's widget system is its ability to display a wide range of information at a glance. For example, you can view attachments, recently seen emails, and smart folders all from one place. You can also customize which widgets appear on your sidebar by going into "Settings" > "Personalization" > "Widgets."

Sidebar Customization

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Spark's sidebar is another feature that allows you to customize your email experience. By going into "Settings" > "Personalization" > "Sidebar," you can choose which widgets and features are displayed in this area.

Customizing Sound Preferences

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Spark also offers a range of sound preferences that you can use to enhance your email experience. By going into "Settings" > "Sound Preferences," you can choose from a variety of sounds, including the default Spark sound, as well as iOS sounds.

Managing Attachments

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One of the most useful features of Spark is its ability to display attachments in a clear and concise manner. You can view attachments by tapping the attachment button in the upper right-hand corner of an email. This allows you to quickly view attachments without having to open the email itself.

Viewing Recently Seen Emails

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Another feature that sets Spark apart from other email clients is its ability to display recently seen emails. By viewing these emails, you can quickly see which emails have been viewed by others and respond accordingly.

Smart Folders

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Spark also offers a range of smart folders that allow you to organize your emails in a customized way. These folders are created using natural language search queries and can be used to categorize emails based on keywords, sender, or subject.

Searching for Emails via Spotlight

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One of the most powerful features of Spark is its ability to search for emails using Spotlight. By searching for specific keywords or phrases, you can quickly find emails that match your search criteria.

Connecting Services

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Spark also offers a range of connected services that allow you to integrate it with other apps and services on your device. For example, you can connect Spark to your iOS calendar, which allows you to manage events and appointments directly from the email client.

Saving Emails as PDFs

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One of the most useful features of Spark is its ability to save emails as PDFs. This allows you to easily share emails with others or save them for later reading.

Managing Privacy Settings

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Spark also offers a range of privacy settings that allow you to customize how your email data is used and shared. By going into "Settings" > "Privacy Settings," you can adjust options such as loading remote images, protecting notification actions when your device is locked, and marking multiple messages with a red stamp.

Deleting Emails

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One of the most frustrating features of email clients is being unable to delete an email by mistake. Spark makes it easy to recover from these mistakes by adding a "Undo" feature that allows you to delete emails in reverse order.

Adding Email Aliases

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Spark also offers a range of features for customizing your email experience, including the ability to add email aliases. By going into "Settings" > "Mail Accounts" > Your Account > Add Alias, you can create new email addresses that forward to your main email address.

Deleting an Email Account

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If you need to delete an email account from Spark, simply go into "Settings" > "Mail Accounts," select the account you want to delete, and then tap the "Remove Account" button.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en50 spark getting started tips adding accounts you can add all sorts of accounts to spark just tap settings tap mail accounts tap add account and now you'll see Google exchange Yahoo iCloud even Outlook and other one password integration to help with adding accounts you can use one password to quickly log in to an account such as your Google account just tap the one password button in the upper right hand corner syncing via iCloud if you have multiple devices this is really handy just go to settings and then make sure you have sync settings via cloud enabled this will sync settings and accounts across multiple devices that you own setting default email address to set the default email address just go to settings and then tap on mail accounts and then tap default email address there you can set your default email address with ease refreshing the inbox while it's true that most email will arrive automatically you can still pull to refresh using the smart inbox in your smart inbox spark will actually separate emails depending on their type so below you'll find messages that you've read already and then above those you'll see all your unread messages sorted by type so you have personal notifications and newsletters viewing message details just tap the subject of a message to view all of your message details message detail action when viewing message details just tap on one of the details to view actions associated with that detail so for instance if I want to add the contact to my address book I can do this change message type you can also change the message type associated with an email so here you can see this is a newsletter but if I tap on it I can change it from a newsletter to a personal message or to a notification composing email to compose email it's really easy just tap the compose button in the bottom right hand corner minimizing email to minimize an in progress draft tap the x button and then tap the minimize button and of course you can also maximize a minimized email swiping between emails just swipe left or right to swipe between emails pinning emails to pin an email just tap the pin button above the message details like that snoozing emails if you need to get back to a message at a later date just tap the snooze button in the upper right hand corner and then tap a snooze time C customize snooes to customize snooes tap settings and then tap snoozes and here you can customize all the snooes you can enable and disable snoozes and you can customize the time associated with the snooze using swipes spark allows you to swipe four different ways on an email in an inbox to take action on that email customizing swipes of course you can customize what those swipes do just go to settings personalization and then tap where it says swipes and now you'll see all the different types of swipes and their Associated action so you can see all the actions here notification preferences per account you can set up per account notification preferences by going to settings mail accounts selecting your account and then choosing one of the three available notification preferences setting signatures to set a signature go to settings then tap signatures and now you can add a signature or you can edit an existing signature and also associate a default account for that signature changing signatures on the fly when you're composing a new email you can of course go into a signature and edit it or you can swipe on the signature to change it on the Fly you can also use the ellipses button for more details customizing badges you can customize badge notifications by going into settings Badges and you can disable all badges or only show badges for certain accounts attaching photos just tap the photos button at the top of the email composition window and you'll see all your photos you can also drill down into different folders attaching files just tap the little paper clip button at the top and then you can tap into different services like iCloud drive to attach files searching using natural language you can use natural language when performing search queries within spark as you can see here so nice to have saving search queries to save a search query just tap the little star button in the upper right hand corner of the query and now you can go into search and then tap saved and then recall your search Mass archiving and deleting you can perform mass deletions and archives by using the drag handles at the bottom of an inbox managing multiple inbox items to get into edit mode tap and hold on a message in the Inbox and then you'll have various options for managing that email using quick replies you can quick reply to email that has a personal message type so I'm going to just send a thumbs up to this message and you can see the progress bar go across and once it's finished it's going to send that email just like that adding custom quick replies to add a custom quick reply go into settings tap quick replies tap add new and you can add your own custom quick reply changing background color to change the background color go into settings select background color and then choose between dark sky dark blue or light blue customizing email viewer and browser you can customize the actions displayed on emails by going into settings email viewer and then you'll see the actions here so you can choose delete archive or both I'm going to change it to Archive and notice there's a delete button now but once I refresh or go to a new email the delete button is now an archive button using widgets on the iPad widgets are displayed on the side in the little blue bar here you can just tap there to view widgets now you can of course also cust customize widgets by going into settings personalization tapping widgets and now you'll see all sorts of customization options for widgets so we're going to add a new widget here going to add a snooze widget and we're going to rearrange that order of that widget as well so now the snooze widget should be at the top just like this using the sidebar along with widgets you also have the sidebar which is right here now like widgets you can also customize the sidebar by going into the personalization settings and selecting the widgets tab changing sound preferences spark has its own Unique Sounds but if you don't like them you can go into settings and then go into sound preferences and then use the iOS sounds instead viewing multiple email attachments just swipe or tap the attachment button in the upper right hand corner viewing attachments across all accounts you can tap the attachments shortcut in your sidebar or in widgets to view all attachments across all accounts viewing recently seen email similarly to attachments you can view recently seen email right from the sidebar setting up smart folders smart folders can be established underneath Widgets or the sidebar so just go into settings personalization choose Widgets or sidebar and then tap add new and then smart folder and now you can add your own search query using natural language like we did here now we're just going to save that you can also change the accounts that are associated with the smart folder so now we'll go all all the way out and we'll tap on our new smart pholder right here searching for emails via Spotlight you can find specific emails within Spotlight search and then tap the search result to open it up directly in spark changing notification actions by going to settings and then notification actions you can change the options that appear when receiving an email notification and notification center connecting Services of course the iOS sign share sheet works but you can also add connected services to add integration directly within spark using the calendar widget the calendar widget actually goes out and Taps into your iOS calendars that you have set up on your device so you can go in you can manage different events you can go in and edit those events set up invites Etc saving emails as PDFs one of the really cool features is the ability to save an email as a PDF and it looks really good let me show you right here you just tap the share button select save as PDF F and here's what it looks like slick looking managing privacy settings if you go into settings and privacy settings you can adjust things like loading remote images and protecting notification actions when your device is locked marking multiple messages is red to mark multiple messages tap the little button in the upper right hand corner of the inbox bundle just like this undoing actions we've all been there before we delete an email we didn't mean to delete well just tap the undo button in the bottom left hand corner to bring it back adding an email Alias just tap settings and then tap mail accounts tap your account and then add the alias in the Alias box like this how to delete an email account to delete an email account open up settings go to mail accounts tap your account and scroll down and then tap remove account iPad support you can now use spark on your iPad yes with the new 1.6 update you can use spark with your iPad and even your IP P Pro managing email on Apple watch Apple watch support isn't new for spark but now with spark 1.6 it has watch os2 compatibility meaning this is a native app and as you can see it runs much faster than before in fact I'm just going to pin this email right here and you're going to see it happen on my iPad in the background so let's have a look there you go there we go so ladies and gentlemen that has been a look at 50 getting started tips for spark let me know what you think in the comments this is Jeff with 95 Mac\n"