Full of Bugs, Poor Functionality
This app is a BETA at best. Try working with Drafts to start - constantly closing without notice losing all changes. Then:
1. Quick replies - a "Readle" advertisement and green check box cannot be toggled off in settings by user. As a result it it useless. Do not want advertising on my emails. I do not even use it and the quick reply bar should have a setting toggle to turn off. Further, the quick reply shows in sent folder but if you try to forward that quick reply email, for later confirmation, etc - nothing appears. User has no shareable record that a reply was sent.
2. Swipe right to PIN an item does not work in sent folder. Swipe right to delete apparently irrevocably deletes. Not sure what the trash folder in sidebar is connected to but deleted emails by swipe do not appear in trash.
3. App does not receive mail unless open. Badge not therefore working unless app is open. Need to push Apple to stop this nonsense if the cause of this is them restricting developers. If not, need to fix this.
4. Google Drive does not appear as a "move to" activity. It is a direct swipe option but the icon is not in move to choices
5. Does "send to spam" actually report the email as spam to the email account provider? i.e. Apple, or Gmail. Selecting this option for an email should have exact same result as pushing the gmail "report spam" button when in Gmail mail app, and same for Apple emails. Future email from senders marked Spam in Spark should be automatically diverted to Spam folder.
6. Swipe to 2Do should remember (or have a settings selection) the preferred 2Do list, not always default to 2Do "Inbox" list.
7. Need a "Sent (all accounts)" widget. [all] Inbox is there - why no Sent?
8. Make a delayed send feature. Very helpful and a great differentiator for this app. Allows user to write and apply a send time or date that automatically triggers at that time and/or date and "send". Very cool and many uses for this functionality.
9. Again, make a paid version - many including me happy to pay for these and other high end refinements.
10. No header information to quickly see what of email account a new mail in in box was snet to.
11. Clicking an email link should not open a dialogue "spark wants to open chrome" it should open the browser page as in native mail app!
12. A Contacts widgets would be a super handy thing. Nice to have connected to an email app to scroll through contacts.
13. Editing emails in drafts was glitchy. The drafts repeatedly close and changes lost. Theres a bug here. It woulf be nice also if drafts opened for edit by simply tapping the body of the draft as in native ios mail app.
14. Swipping to delete an email in inbox correctly deletes the email but then the large right side area that should then show the content of next email that is highlighted in the inbox, shows a gray screen with the Spark logo. It should show the body / text of next email not require an extra step of having to click on that email in the list to then see the content
15. Syncing of email read/unread status and badge count between devices only works if Spark is both open AND in foreground of the device. A real weakness compared to native ios mail app.
16 No unified sent widget
17 sending from or replying to an earlier Apple email (@me) alias you sent sends from your associated primary apple email address.
Copying an emails text does not auto scroll the copying highlighting when the text to be copied does not fit in the visible pane. Cannot highlight text unless it is in view - no scrollong highlight.
No unified "unread" mail folder or widget
18 not clear if this app has the same fatal flaw as Boxer - emails, particularly sent via @me address intermittantly do not arrive to addressee. No confirmation from tech support that this app is not vulnerbale to this known flaw as well.
19. Email read still show unread in badge until you manually highlight another email. They should go unread after the email is highlighted.
20. Sister App expert only appears as save to in icloud
21. When working on a draft, the background is constantly changing or updating or something - very distracting.
22. Constantly being asked to "Undo Read - yes, no"
23. Tilting the ipad and/or other issue results in constant UNDO previous action dialogue popping up
24. UNDO while compsiong an email is one undo level only, does not go back to undo multiple edits
25. Tech support routinely does not respond.
26. Never ending "preparing draft" comes up periodically when forwarding emails.
27. Highlighting, copying and pasting not easy - some touch screen sensitivity needs to be corrected
28. SUPER GLITCHY WORKING IN DRAFT FOLDER WITH EDITING EMAILS. Constantly closing loosing any changes. Giving strange message - doc closed from another device - and disappearing upon maximizing if you minimze Spark to jump to another app for a minute.
29. Must save email attachment photos one by one, or if possible not easy clear how
30. Sometimes Badge shows new email but nothing marked with blue marker in inbox
31. Regularly when forwarding emails, none of the to be forwarded text is there - its a blank email.
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