I was on Gmail with a custom domain for a good 7 years or so and in this last year I switched to iCloud mail and have been happy with it. I trust apple more than I do google when it comes to email privacy. And I think what really pulled me over to having apple host my mail is the private relay feature which is super cool.

the better question is - how do you transfer out of Google Mail to anything else after 15 years of usage of this mail? at this point even if Im willing to, I just can't, too many places to be transferred.

Still using my gmail from the early days. Would like to use iCloud but switching would cause a lot of pain I feel. So many accounts using this address. Nowadays I use apples generated email addresses but even those redirect to the gmail address so..

Used to use Gmail, moved over to Icloud mail when I made the switch to Apple. I love how it scans the mail to add any event into my calendar if I want it to.

Sometimes a wee bit temperamental though

I wrote a whole thing on this, but tldr; I switched from Gmail to iCloud about a year ago. Gmail is better at filters, search, web UI, and spam filtering. iCloud is better at native UI, offline support, and ecosystem integration.

Overall I’m happy with it but only because I’m willing to pay the costs for the benefits, which I think is pretty rare.

The search function on the apple mail app on phone is absolutely dreadful. I always have to go to gmail to search again. Otherwise I’d be happy to jump

@avater I’m trying to leave google at all but there’s always something that stuck me like google photos and drive. Drive is a minor problem, the big issue is photos.

iCloud Mail doesn't have any advanced features, but it works great, it has no ads, it's form a company with a good reputation, and it's very cheap.

If the feature set has what you need, there really isn't anything better (unless you pay a lot more).

I switched from Gmail to iCloud and from iCloud to Fastmail. Couldn't be happier. Give it a try.

I’ve almost finished transition to iCloud. No issues at all. I value my privacy more and more and with news google is going to train their LLMs on your content it was a no brainer for me.

worst thing about icloud mail is the terrible junk filtering which you literally cannot disable and always has false positives. best you can do is set up a rule to move junk to inbox.

best thing is hide my email

Gmail’s auto and manual tagging system is better and easier to use than iCloud’s folders and archive is better in gmail where it’s basically just another folder on iCloud. iCloud doesn’t have ads though and better supports custom domains.

I just switched to iCloud from gmail so we will see if iCloud grows on me

I use iCloud mail because everything I own is Apple. You just can’t beat how it syncs between my phone, Watch, iPad & MacBook. FWIW, the native mail app is the only one that can compose a new email from scratch on an Apple Watch. I’m all in with Apple services.

I haven’t used gmail in years, but I switched my domain email from O365 to iCloud about a year ago to save a few dollars a month (already have iCloud+ 200gb). Pretty much just works how I expect email to, haven’t had any issues. I used Apple Mail already on my devices so same UI and everything for me.

I prefer my mail provider doesn’t data mine my email to sell me products.

How good is the search feature in iCloud mail? How does it compare to gmail? Can you quickly and accurately find stuff?

Disroot is a better provider than those two.

I use both, though I don't really use icloud email. I mostly use gmail because of the ease of access to it's library of apps. And for me it's much easier to upload/download files to google drive then it is to the icloud.