Homescreen Mail icon behaviour on click

Question

Have just set up my iPhone4 with IOS4.1 and have noticed that when clicking the mail icon I open one of my mail accounts instead of opening the 'Mailboxes' list of accounts. Didn't happen before on my 3G with IOS4.1. Anyone else getting this behaviour?

Answer 1

You're welcome.
There is no change with the Mail app from pre-iOS4 and iOS4 in regards to leaving the app. When pressing the home button to leave the app pre-iOS4, the app was not quit. When removing the app from the Fast App Switching or recently used apps bar, it is no different from leaving the app prior to iOS4. The same applies when removing the Phone app and Messages app from the Fast App Switching or recently used apps bar. Doing so does not quit these apps. They remain suspended regardless if removed from the Fast App Switching bar or recently used apps bar which doesn't accomplish anything.
There is nothing gained by removing the Mail app and Safari from the Fast App Switching or recently used apps bar which is the same for the Phone and Messages app.
I rarely access the Fast App Switching or recently used apps bar. The only time I do access it is to quit a 3rd party app that is running in the background such as music streaming app.
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+Is the fast app switcher dock a task manager?+
+You’ll remember this question for the OS 4 keynote Q&A session:+
+Q: How do you close applications when multitasking?+
+A: (Scott Forstall) You don’t have to. The user just uses things and doesn’t ever have to worry about it.+
+A: (Steve Jobs) It’s like we said on the iPad, if you see a stylus, they blew it. In multitasking, if you see a task manager… they blew it. Users shouldn’t ever have to think about it.+
+You can manage your apps manually in the hidden dock by removing them, which sends them to the closed state, but what Steve said still holds true…the users don’t have to think about it. *A regular user on OS 4 can get along just fine without closing apps manually or even looking at the hidden dock at all for that matter.* All the operations of managing the apps for memory and CPU concerns are taken care of automatically by system, *so there is no advantage to closing them yourself.*+
Only with a 3rd party app that is running in the background such as a music streaming app, or if you want to quit a game that has been updated for iOS4 to be suspended when leaving the game so you can return to the game where you left off without having to restart the app and begin the game from scratch.
Since this is a problem or bug only when removing the Mail app from the Fast App Switching or recently used apps bar, there is no need to do it since there is nothing gained when doing so.