The same email on your phone and your computer

Understand why a message read on the phone is already read on the computer, and be able to put your account on a new device by yourself.

Your email is not stored inside your phone, and it is not stored inside your computer. It lives on the mail company’s machines, and every device you own is a window looking at the same pile.

That is why reading something on the phone makes it read on the computer, why deleting on one deletes on both, and why a brand new phone has fifteen years of your post on it within a minute of signing in.

Key points

What to remember

Try this

On your phone, archive one message. Then look at the same mailbox on your computer and watch that it has gone from there too. Seeing it happen is what makes the idea stick.

Practice: The same email on your phone and your computer. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.

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