I am stumped by this seemingly obvious feature.
One of the key things that makes gmail great is the ability to keep all your mail from forever and then search it using flexible google search when you need to find something.
I just got an iPhone and both the apple mail program, and even the google mobile app for iPhone appear to have left searching your mail off the list of capabilities. When you go to gmail.google.com from an iPhone, it recognizes that you are on an iPhone browser and redirects you to a fancy AJAX client that is very nice, but doesn’t allow search.
There has to be a way? Anyone? I spent 2 hours searching the web for this issue and I have not found either a resolution, or even confirmation that you can’t do it.
The google supplied gmail app on blackberry has search mail. Why would they leave that out on iPhone? It’s a mystery.
If I can’t search mail, I will probably return the iPhone. Browsing is nice, but there are a few must have email features…
The only workaround I have found is to go to gmail.google.com (which takes you to mobile gmail with no search), then scroll to the bottom an select "Desktop version" where you get the full web page you would get on a real computer. Then you can search gmail and do all other features, but you lose the nice mobile reader.
The mobile gmail Blackberry client from Google has search mail, which is why I found it very surprising that Google would release this without – and it has been out for over 6 months, plenty of time to add the feature.
I wonder if apple will not allow them to do it so they can sell more mobile me? Does mobile me have search mail? If it does, I smell a conspiracy.
you are correct, you cannot search email with it.
this is a major gripe with the mobile gmail