However, these don't work out all the time for everyone, for whatever reason, and we all have our own preferences. If the default Mail app and Safari work perfectly for you, then that's great. However, I continue to use Safari as my default browser, but there are plenty of fantastic alternatives, such as Google Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and more (I have these as backup browsers when something doesn't work in Safari).īut the point is that people like having options. I personally hate using the default Mail app, and much prefer using Spark for my email needs on my iPhone 12 Pro, iPad Pro, and Macs because of the feature set. With a whole plethora of great email apps and web browsers to choose from, this is fantastic. So far, even with the iOS 15 developer and public betas available, it seems that the only options for changing default apps continues to be email and web browser. For many of us, we'd like the option of not using the native Apple apps, so this is something that Apple should address sooner rather than later.
iOS 15 is looming just over the horizon, and we've yet to hear anything else about more options for changing default apps.
While these are good first steps, it's been almost a year, and we still have no other progress made.
CHANGE DEFAULT EMAIL APP IOS SOFTWARE
On top of finally being able to customize our Home screens with custom icons and widgets without requiring a jailbreak, iOS 14 really was a substantial software update. We were finally given the option to change our default email and web browser on the best iPhone and iPad. However, that started to change once Apple released iOS 14, and things began to look up. Even when the App Store launched in 2008 and opened the floodgates to thousands of applications from third-party developers, we never had an option to change what apps launch by default for things like email, calendars, web browsers, music, and more. Ever since Apple debuted the iPhone back in 2007, we've pretty much been limited to Apple's stock apps when it comes to what launches by default.