How To Manage Your Apple ID Account In Settings On IPhone

For quite some time now, you’ve been able to manage your Apple ID account in Settings on your iPhone. But with iOS 10.3, Apple made it even easier. At the top of your Settings menu, you’ll see your Apple ID profile photo and name. This new option allows you to look at your Apple ID profile in one glance and provides quick access to your Apple ID settings so that you can make any changes you want and manage your Apple ID account overall. Here’s how to manage your Apple ID account in Settings on iPhone. Sign up to iPhone Life's Tip of the Day Newsletter and we'll send you a tip each day to save time and get the most out of your iPhone or iPad. Open the Settings app. At the top, you’ll see your Apple ID profile picture and name. Tap on this block. Here you’ll see an overview of your Apple ID account including access to Apple ID info such as Name, Phone Numbers, Email, as well as Password & Security, and Payment & Shipping. Below that you’ll see iCloud, iTunes & App Store, and Family Sharing.

Clicking on each will give you quick access to the settings for each category. Lastly you’ll see the list of your devices also using your Apple ID. And the very bottom, you’ll see Sign Out, which would sign your Apple ID out of the device you’re using. At the very top of this page, you’ll see your name and Apple ID email. You’ll also see your Apple ID profile photo, and you can tap Edit to change the photo you’re using. It’s best to go through the different menus to see what you can do in each. There are a lot of different settings you have convenient access to from this one main menu. Open the Settings app. At the top, you’ll see your Apple ID profile picture and name. Tap on this block. Select Password & Security. Open the Settings app. At the top, you’ll see your Apple ID profile picture and name. Tap on this block. Select Payment & Shipping. Select your card under Payment Method to edit the credit card you’re using for your Apple ID. Tap on your address to edit your Shipping Address for Apple Store purchases. There’s quite a bit more you can access from this one over-arching menu. One of my favorite things about this new menu in iOS 10.3 is the ability to see what iPhone model you have without needing your model number. Take a few minutes to explore, and you’ll get an idea of when accessing this menu is ideal.

This is the best choice when managing an email account on multiple devices. It allows all data within the account to remain in sync and so things such as marking emails as read, will just happen automatically. Some of the information from the previous screen will already appear in the top section, so lets deal with the Incoming Mailserver. Your Username is your full email address (unless you have been told otherwise) and your Password will be the same as before. So, if you took our tip to copy it from the Notes App earlier, you can just paste it in here. Note: Most of the support enquiries we get relating to setting up email accounts, turn out to be an incorrectly entered mailserver host name. This is because we are used to typing the @ symbol with this type of entry, so check you got that bit right. The Outgoing Mailserver settings are most likely a mirror of the incoming mailserver settings. Just check the Host Name you have been provided. Tap Next to continue.

At this point, your device is checking its connection with the mailserver. You may well see an alert notice ‘Cannot Verify Server Identity’. Click on Continue to confirm you trust the mailserver you’re using. It will probably appear twice as it checks both Incoming and Outgoing ports. Now it’s time to complete the set up of your new email account. If you wish to use Notes with this account, you can turn it on first. Otherwise, just tap Save and return back to your home screen. One of the best features about using IMAP, is that emails in your inbox remain in sync across all your devices. Now we want to make sure the same things happens to emails in your Sent and Draft folders too. Go to the Settings app, scroll down to Mail and tap to continue. The first option in this view is ‘Accounts’ and takes us through to see all the email accounts on your device, so tap it to continue.

Your new email account will be easy to identify by the description you gave it earlier. Tap it to continue. You will now see your email address shown next to the Account label. Tap that to continue. The account overview shows the details you entered previously. We don’t want to change any of this so scroll down and tap on Advanced to continue. The top section here handles Mailbox Behaviours and that’s what we need to configure. We’re going to set the behaviour of the Sent folder in this example, and you can simply repeat this process for any other folders you see listed here. Tap on Sent to continue. The current folder in use is identified by a check mark (tick). You may well see that your device has opted to use the folder within the On My iPhone section at the top. You will need to change this to use the Sent folder within the On The Server section. Doing this means that emails sent from your iOS device will be stored with any emails sent via the webmail service or from other email applications that access this account (providing they’ve also been configured correctly). Tap the Sent folder option in the On The Server section to select it. You can now tap Advanced at the top of the screen to go back and make changes to any other folders, like Drafts, in a similar way. When you’re finished you can return back to the home screen. Well done - you have now setup your new email account. Now you just need to try it out.