How to add AOL email on Iphone

Whenever we go to access our AOL email account, we have to first visit the email login page and then have to fill in the required login information for accessing it. However, this task can become simpler if we Add AOL email on iPhone or any other device which we use to save our time of repeated login. Having our account logged in on our phone will make us ease of its accessibility anytime and anywhere. 

Also, it is worth noticing that adding and deleting anything from iPhone is a tedious task to do as you have to undergo a significantly long process to get the task done. Therefore, for making it easier for you, we have written this article which will cover all the settings that one should do to set up AOL email on iPhone for its unhindered usage.

Method for Adding AOL Mail on iPhone-

Here, we have elaborated on the way of adding your AOL to your iPhone. In fact, using this way you can add as many accounts you want to your [hone from different email service providers. So, without wasting further time, let’s go through the process to Add AOL email on iPhone:

1. First, you have to go to your phone settings.
2. When you scroll down further into the settings you will see a “Mail” tab.
3. Tapping on that tab, you will be directed to a new page.
4. On that page, you have to tap on the “Accounts” option.
5. Thereafter, tap on the “Add Account” button.
6. Now, there will be a list of some email service providers like Yahoo, Google, iCloud, etc. If AOL is there, tap on it, otherwise, tap on the “Other”, which will be present at the bottom of the screen.
7. On the next page, you have to enter your AOL email address and password of that email account in their respective fields.
8. Now, tap on the “Next” button. Here, you have to wait for a minute or two till your account get verified.
9. Now, choose information, like a calendar or contacts from your email account.
10. At last, click on the “Save” button to save the changes and you are good to go with your AOL mail on your iPhone.

Manually Setup AOL Email in iPhone

In order to do the set up AOL email on iPhone manually, we have to do the mail server settings and it is necessary to do these settings with utmost precision, otherwise, you will face problems while using your email account.

Before jumping right into the process there are some pieces of information that we need to consider. While doing mail server settings, we have to do the settings for incoming and outgoing mail servers. These servers are governed by three email protocols which are IMAP, POP, and SMTP. IMAP and POP are used for the incoming mail server while SMTP is for the outgoing mail server.

People often complain that AOL email not working on iPhone this is mainly because they messed up while doing incoming mail server settings. For this, we either have to use IMAP or POP, however, it is recommended to use IMAP over POP, because IMAP does the two-way sync i.e., it connects our mail with the mail server and does the same changes for our all-email accounts of the same service provider that are logged in on different devices. In simple words using IMAP, we can log in with the same email account on different devices. On the other hand, POP is just opposite to IMAP, it does the one-way-sync and therefore we cannot use our email account on different devices.

Therefore, to prevent yourself from such a situation follow these steps to manually configure email in iPhone:

1. First, you have to go to the settings.
2. There go to the “Mail” tap and tap on the “Add Accounts” option.
3. Now, click on the “Add Account” button and click on the “Other” link on the service provider page.
4. Then, tap on “Add Mail Account”.
5. Here, you have to enter your AOL email address and password.
6. Tap on the “Next” button.
7. Now a new page for mail server settings will appear where you have to choose between IMAP or POP, however, IMAP is recommended if you do not have specific reasons to choose POP.
8. There, you have to fill in the following information:
   1. Account Type: IMAP
      1. Incoming Mail Server: imap.aol.com
      2. Port No.: 993
      3. Encrypted Connection: SSL/TLS or SSL
      4. Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.aol.com
      5. Port No.: 465
      6. Encrypted Connection: SSL/ TLS, Auto
   2. Account Type: POP
      1. Incoming Mail Server: pop.aol.com
      2. Port No.: 995
      3. Encrypted Connection: SSL/TLS or SSL
      4. Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.aol.com
      5. Port No.: 465
      6. Encrypted Connection: SSL/ TLS, Auto
9. Lastly, tap “Next” and you are done doing with setting up AOL email on iPhone.