Apple Mail

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2009–2025), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Apple Mail, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 6 complaints

Can't find an email containing a specific word on Apple devices2025-10-11
Search misses emails that exist, forcing a switch to Gmail web2023-04-06
Calendar notifications fire unreliably and arrive late, so meetings are missed2020-05-22
Trash and reply icons adjacent on the right; delete needs no confirmation, reply icon opens menu2019-12-23
Full-screen layout makes text lines so long, with 30-40 words, that it is hard to read2011-07-26
Other email clients' workflows feel slow and painful, with no native archive2009-01-28