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Mail app has confusing icon for moving messages on Mac OS 27 and slow performance since MacOS 26

since Mac OS 27 when moving mail from inbox to a folder I get an arrow icon with a mail symbol drifting a half inch below it. It used to be just a mail icon I think, so now all these graphics flying around just makes it confusing which folder I am dropping it in. There's also a mail symbol flying down from the top of the inbox list when I click on a piece of mail to move it.


since MacOS 26 I think also the performance seems to have gone downhill, it seems to take forever to "move" messages if I mass delete my junk mail for example. In Mac OS 27 things just seem additionally sticky so far.


It was trying to provide information at the top on priority messages which I turned off as it was just prioritizing information from junk mail.


If there is any other setting I can turn off to optimize performance of mail or change the behavior of the icons to be less confusing that would be helpful. I don't need any processing of my mail by AI etc just show me my inboxes (mainly gmail accounts).

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in addition when I scroll to the top of "All Inboxes" as I frequently do, it easily now triggers "checking for mail" across all my accounts (x8) which I don't need or want. If there is a way to turn this off so I can just scroll my inboxes the way it used to simply work, would be useful.


(I have submitted feedback on these issues to apple, fwiw - keep Mail simple!!).