How to open my email account on my phone

Email remains one of the most prominent forms of communication, especially for businesses. However, with people using so many devices throughout their day, it can be tricky to keep track of email accounts and access them. This is especially true for business accounts, which often lack the purpose-built web interfaces that consumer accounts such as Gmail or iCloud offer.

To make things simpler, we’ve compiled instructions on how to access your emails from the devices you already use daily—including your business email. What’s more, we’ve put together four rules for making accessing your emails easier than ever, regardless of the device you use.

How to Check Emails on a Smartphone

These days, smartphones are powerful enough to perform most of the basic functions that a person would need from a computer. This includes being a convenient and simple tool to check your email, especially when you’re on the move.

Popular phone brands will generally come with a built-in mail client, such as Gmail or generic “Email” apps on Android phones and Apple Email on iPhones. However, the process to access your emails on your smartphone is relatively similar regardless of the client it comes with.

How To Get My Email On My Android Email App?

Generic Android email apps will generally follow the following setup to access your emails:

How Do I Open My Email Via The Gmail App? 

For those people looking to access their business emails via the Gmail app on their smartphone, you simply have to add that account to an existing Gmail account.

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How Do I Check My Email on My iPhone?

For Apple users, the process is a little different. Rather than adding your email account to an email app, you have to add it as an account via the phone settings.

However, just because your smartphone comes with an email client doesn’t mean you have to use it. There are plenty of other third-party email clients on the Play Store and App Store, many of which offer far more comprehensive tools than your in-built client.

Spike, for example, enables you to check your emails on your smartphone and offers other powerful productivity tools such as Online Notes, Tasks & To-Do Lists, and more.

Top Tip: Tablets, such as iPads, Samsung Tabs, and Amazon Fire’s, will often follow the same setups to access your email as smartphones. They are likely to even have the same app as your phone, so try following the same instructions as above.

If you can’t find an email app that works on your tablet, then remember that you can always use a webmail client via the tablet’s browser.

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How Do I Check My Email With Spike? 

That’s it! You’re up and running with all of Spike’s powerful email tools at your fingertips. What’s more, Spike won’t take up your precious smartphone storage space. At only 33MB, Spike is much smaller than other smartphone email clients such as Outlook (260MB), Gmail (200MB), and Yahoo (165MB) so it’s perfect for those running low on storage space.

How to Check Emails on a Desktop

Just like with your smartphone, your computer is likely to have a built-in desktop email client with which you can check your email. If you are using Windows 10, this ships with a built-in app called “Mail.” Apple users also get an in-built app called “Mail,” but these are not the same program.

How Do I Get My Emails Onto Windows 10 Mail?

Adding your email account to Windows 10 Mail is very simple. First, if you have logged into your computer using an Outlook account, this will automatically be added. However, you can add numerous other accounts to the Mail app too.

How Do I Get My Emails in the macOS Mail App?

There are a few ways to check your emails in the Apple Mail app. If it is your first time using the app, you will be prompted to choose a mail provider from a list of common services or “Other” for self-hosted email accounts. If you’re looking to add another account, it’s relatively simple:

However, as with smartphones, you are not limited to the email client you are given! Third-party clients are available, with Spike offering an app for both Windows and macOS.

How to Check Emails in Your Browser

Most consumer email providers offer a webmail client, so you can check your emails directly in your browser. If you’re a Gmail user, for example, you will almost always open your email in the Gmail web app.

Business email services, however, will often be self-hosted and so will not have a dedicated web interface, especially when set up by your web host. Instead, they tend to use third-party, open-source webmail clients. Some common ones that you may come across are Roundcube, SquirrelMail and Horde.

These webmail clients are fantastic for getting the basics done, especially if you are looking for free or open-source ways to check your email in your browser. However, they can feel a little clunky and look a bit dated, so if you want something sleeker and more modern, then it’s worth exploring other options.

Spike, for example, offers webmail client services for any email address whether consumer or business and does so with a clean, modern, and intuitive design. What’s more, Spike brings a bunch of other tools into your inbox as well, such as collaborative Online Notes, Video Conferencing, and Voice Memos.

Checking Emails on a Chromebook – Is Gmail My Only Option?

Gmail is the obvious choice for people using a Chromebook, since both are within the Google ecosystem, meaning high compatibility. However, for those not using Gmail, especially business email accounts, there are plenty of other options. In fact, since Chromebooks are entirely browser-based, you can use any webmail client.

This includes the basic ones we listed earlier, such as Roundcube, SquirrelMail, and Horde, and more comprehensive productivity platforms like Spike. Using a third-party web client such as Spike brings the added benefit of having other productivity tools included in your inbox.

As such, you are then able to access your business emails on a Chromebook (regardless of where they are hosted) and have access to task management tools, video conferencing, voice memos, and more.

However You Access Your Email, Make it as Easy as Possible with These 4 Rules

Whether you’re checking your emails on your smartphone, desktop, browser, tablet, or watch, there are a few tips and tricks to make your email experience smoother than ever. Let’s take a look at four rules that you can start using today.

Conclusion

Now you should have a good idea about how to check your email on a smartphone, desktop, and web browser using both generic mail apps and third-party providers. So don’t settle for the mail client that was preinstalled. Instead, Find an email app that meets your needs. Combine that with our four top tips for email management, and you’ll be checking and managing your email like a pro in no time.

For more email tips and tricks, check out the Spike blog today or tweet us @SpikeNowHQ.