iPhone email swipe behaviour modifications
With iOS4, Apple made some nice changes to the mail application. The thread functionality in particular is great. One thing that I don't like though is that now when swiping a message in the inbox, instead of showing a delete button, it shows an archive button. Perhaps this is something that folks prefer and were asking for, but I find that it has disrupted my iPhone mail work-flow quite a bit.
I get a lot of mail, and there is a lot of it that I simply don't need to see and a lot that once seen I don't need to keep (facebook updates, urgent action updates from environmental//humanitarian organizations and the like) and liked that in the old interface I could easily swipe and delete these. It made this task almost easier on my phone than it was when logged into gmail. I certainly archive plenty of mail, but really miss the ability to easily delete mail also.
Thinking about it, it occurred to me that it might be possible to have the best of both worlds - wouldn't it be great if swiping left let you delete and swiping right let you archive (or vice versa)? If you like this idea and would like to see it on your phone, get noisy about it - spread the word. Post something on an apple forum. My hope is that other folks will hop on board with this idea and that it will eventually be integrated in some future version of iOS.
