# Configuring your email settings on your iPhone

> A quick guide to the key email settings available on your iPhone, from fetch frequency to signatures.

Source: https://www.kualo.com/knowledgebase/email-apple/configuring-your-email-settings-on-your-iphone
Updated: 2026-06-09

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The iPhone Mail app gives you a good range of options for controlling how your email looks and behaves. Here is a walkthrough of the most useful settings.

## Opening the mail settings

1. Open the **Settings** app on your iPhone. Its location on your home screen may vary.

   ![Settings icon](https://kb-cdn.kualo.com/7d/83/7d833d3516204f5794ef9e6bbe0aaa250e811926.png)

2. Scroll down and tap **Mail**.

   ![Mail settings](https://kb-cdn.kualo.com/01/68/0168e5927459f6c1a5526a48ba36caf373046d9a.png)

## Fetch new data

3. Tap **Fetch New Data** to control how often your iPhone checks for new messages.

   ![Fetch New Data option](https://kb-cdn.kualo.com/9b/c7/9bc7403a22cfde5603de270fbbf427746702169d.png)

4. If your email service supports **Push**, you can enable it here so messages arrive as soon as they are delivered. Otherwise, set **Fetch** to check at a fixed interval - every 15, 30, or 60 minutes - or choose **Manually** to check only when you open the app.

   ![Push and Fetch options](https://kb-cdn.kualo.com/b5/b6/b5b6fa4b4dfc29e4fbccc4cb26bd8e09ef032cce.png)

## Message display options

5. Back in the main Mail settings, you can set how many messages to show at once and how many **Preview** lines to display beneath each subject line.

   ![Preview lines setting](https://kb-cdn.kualo.com/9c/a4/9ca4ee880cd94ccc18865d9dfe986bad47ff48bf.png)

6. You can also adjust the text size and choose whether to show **To** and **Cc** labels in the message list.

   ![Font size and label options](https://kb-cdn.kualo.com/48/f9/48f9527d56ab547fe3acc24a9018c3215dd13d31.png)

## Signatures and default account

7. Enable **Always Bcc Myself** if you want a copy of every sent message delivered to your inbox. You can also set a custom **Signature** and, if you have more than one account, choose which is your **Default Account**.

   ![Signature and default account settings](https://kb-cdn.kualo.com/65/b8/65b80bb7b73a850804fbd78218dbdc7d7b012a42.png)


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