Outlook Swipe Options Cracked Up To

Microsoft Outlook does something better than Apple Mail does.

OK, OK, Im being hyperbolic here, as there are actually plenty of things that Outlook does just as well as or even better than Mail.

Anyhow, one feature that Outlook for Mac added recently is the ability to swipe left or right across a message to get options for flagging it, trashing it, marking it as read, and so on.

Apple Mail has had this functionality for a long time, of course, but heres how Microsoft does it better: Outlook lets you configure it with a lot more options, and YOU CAN DISABLE IT, TOO.

Within Apple Mail, the preference for setting up what happens when you swipe has been removed, and you cant turn off the swiping behavior, either.

Not cool, Apple. Within Outlook for Mac, though, you can turn this off if youd like to.

Hooray To get started, open Outlook, of course, and then choose the Outlook menu at the top-left corner of your screen to click on Preferences.

Once that window opens, select Reading and then find the Swipe Gestures section at the bottom.

Youve got a lot of choices for what swiping left or swiping right will do, as you can see, and the best option of all is on those drop-downs, too: None.

So if you dont want Outlook to detect your swiping at all, you have that power.

Im resisting the urge to say something here like Was that so hard, Apple Im not saying that.

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