How to Pin Emails in Outlook

To make sure you don’t forget important messages, you can make emails stay at the top of your inbox. With the Pin feature in Outlook, you simply pin the message until you take care of it and then unpin it when you’re done.

Here’s how to pin an email in Outlook on the web, desktop, and mobile devices.

Pin Emails in Outlook on the Web

When you use Outlook on the web to manage your messages, you can pin an email easily.

You should then see your pinned messages at the top with the pin icon highlighted.

To unpin an email, use any of the above options to deselect the pin icon or chooseUnpin.

Related:Learn how tomake an email group in Outlook.

Pin Emails in Outlook on the Desktop

If you use the Outlook desktop client on Windows, there isn’t currently a feature for pinning an email. However, you do have the option to pin an email in Outlook on Mac.

Make sure you’re using the “new” Outlook rather than the legacy version on macOS.

You’ll then see your pinned messages at the top of your Focused inbox and thePinicon will be highlighted on the message.

If you want to unpin the email later, you can use any of the above actions to remove the pin or selectUnpin.

Pin Emails in Outlook on Mobile

If you’re a mobile email user, you can pin messages inOutlook on your Android device or iPhonetoo.

You can make pinning emails faster on your mobile device by adding it to a swipe action. Then, just slide the email to pin it, or later, unpin it.

Tap thearrowto go back, theXto close the Settings, and give your swipe action a try.

Pinning an email in Outlook is a quick and handy way to make sure you don’t forget a message. Will you use the feature?

Now that you know how to pin an email in Outlook, take a look athow to create rules in Outlookif you’d like to pin important emails automatically.

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