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Open and Reply to an Email in Gmail on iPhone 6

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Video: Open and Reply to an Email in Gmail on iPhone 6

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You're watching VisiHow. In this video, we are going to show you how you can open an email message and reply to it in the Gmail application on the iPhone 6.

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To begin, we need unlock the phone by pressing the lock button on the side
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Alternatively, we press the home button at the bottom
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We swipe
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We can enter our passcode or just use the fingerprint scanner
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We need to find and tap the Gmail icon
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The icon is white and has an envelope in the middle. Tapping the icon will open up the application. We should automatically be logged onto one of our email accounts. If we are not logged onto our email account, we can refer to the VisiHow video available at https://visihow.com/Add_Account_to_Gmail_on_iPhone_6 to learn how to add an account to this application.
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In this video, we have some email messages that we have not read
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We can tap anywhere on a message bar to open up the unread email message.

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If we want, we can scroll down
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If we need to reply, we tap the arrow icon
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The icon is next to the name at the top.

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We will have the option to reply to the message or forward it
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We tap "Reply". This will bring up the email message below our response, which we can start typing.
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Let's type a reply
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In this video, it is just one word.
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When we are satisfied with the reply, we tap "Done"
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Then, we tap the send icon
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The icon is a right-pointing arrow, which looks like a paper airplane, in the top right-hand corner. We'll see "Sending..." at the bottom. That means that Gmail is sending our response. It will be eventually sent.
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Let's tap "Primary" to go back to "Primary" email messages
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The previously selected message will be no longer in bold
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This is because we've already read the message and responded to it. We are back to where we were at the beginning.
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