Add your email account to your iPhone or iPad (iOS 16)
This guide will help you add your newly created email account to your Apple device, which could be an iPhone or iPad.
1. On your Apple device press on the Settings icon which looks like this:
2. Scroll through your Settings until you find Accounts & Passwords and press on that.
3. Then find Add Account and press on that.
4. Then choose Other which is at the bottom of the list:
5. Then select Add Mail Account
6. Next, you will need to enter the following:
- Your Full Name
- Your New Email Address
- The Password for your email account – this is the password you set when you created the mailbox in cPanel
- A description is optional, this is just for your reference.
Then press Next.
7. On the next screen, you will need to enter your Incoming and Outgoing Mail Server Settings.
Your Incoming Mail Server Hostname will be mail.your-domain.com. As an example, if your domain-name was: www.example.co.uk your Incoming Hostname would be: mail.example.co.uk
8. Press Next. On the next screen turn off Notes and leave Mail on and press Save.
Setting up your Trash folder
1. Press on the email account you have just added, then press on “Account” scroll down and click “Advanced”.
2. Under “Mailbox Behaviors” press on “Deleted Mailbox” by default it will select the “Trash” on the iPhone this needs to be changed; if you scroll down you should see a “Trash” folder lower down, press on that one to select.
3. Press “Advanced” in the top left, then “Account” and then “Done” in the top right, this will save your new settings.
Setting up your Sent folder
1. In your Mail Settings press on the email account you have just added, then press on “Account” scroll down and click “Advanced”.
2. Under “Mailbox Behaviours” press on “Sent Mailbox” by default it will select the “Sent” on the iPhone this needs to be changed; if you scroll down you should see a “Sent” folder lower down, press on that one to select.
3. Press “Advanced” in the top left, then “Account” and then “Done” in the top right, this will save your new settings.