Knowledge base
1000 FAQs, 500 tutorials and explanatory videos. Here, there are only solutions!
Set up Apple Mail (iOS app) with IMAP profile (email)
This guide explains how to connect the mobile app Apple Mail on iOS to an email address hosted by Infomaniak.
Preamble
- Your iOS device will be automatically configured using configuration profiles .mobileconfig compatible with Apple, unlike a manual configuration.
- It is possible to delete a configuration profile once installed (scroll to the bottom of this page for explanations).
- Infomaniak mail is compatible with any application supporting IMAP/SMTP.
- For additional help contact the support of the software used or a Partner — also discover the role of the host.
Install a configuration profile
Prerequisites
- Create the address within my kSuite or on a Mail Service (Mail Service alone, or existing within a kSuite).
- Test the email password (do not confuse it with the one used to log in to the Infomaniak interface).
- Check on Service Mail that the automatic diagnostic is correct.
- Have added the email address in question to Mail Infomaniak to use the synchronization assistant and for the Apple profile to work on your devices.
Download the profile from the relevant iOS device or send it from another device (if you already have a working email address, for example):
- Click here to access the Infomaniak configuration tool (online service https://config.infomaniak.com) — log in if necessary to your Infomaniak account on the Organization managing your email address.
- Choose to install the profile on this device:
- Choose to synchronize emails:
- Choose to synchronize another application than the Infomaniak Mail app:
- Enter the password for the email address (attached to Mail Infomaniak (Webmail)) that you want to synchronize on iOS.
- Press the blue Verify button:
- Tap to copy the validated password.
- Download the configuration profile and allow it to open:
- Open the settings of the iOS device:
- Tap on the recently downloaded profile:
- Press the blue Verify button:
- Unlock your iOS device:
- Press the blue Install button:
- Paste the previously verified email password (point 7 above).
- Tap Next:
- There you go, your email address is now set up in the Apple Mail application, which you can open and control:
Delete an Apple profile
Refer to the official documentation by changing the system version at the top of the page* if necessary.
*Why is it necessary to choose the guide version that exactly matches your macOS / iOS system version? Apple introduces significant changes with each new system version, for example, a path on iOS 15
:
becomes this on iOS 16
:
Link to this FAQ: