Here’s How You Can Setup AT&T Email Account on iPhone?

Having trouble managing your AT&T email account through the web client? Don’t worry. Like most users, you can also set up your AT&T account on your phone to easily perform all the essential functions. Setting up an AT&T email account on the phone allows users to send and receive email directly through the phone. This eliminates the need to go through the lengthy process of logging into an AT&T email account on computers/laptops.

[Note: AT&T has recently overtaken Yahoo’s email administration and thus, Yahoo and AT&T’s powered email services like SBCGlobal and Bellsouth are migrated to ‘@Att.net’ domain. So, from now, even those users who want to access Yahoo, SBCGlobal, and Bellsouth domains on their respective mobile devices, have to configure the AT&T email service only.]

Well, the process of setting up an AT&T email account on a mobile device is pretty simple. It is only necessary to have the following list of things given below in advance:

Basic prerequisites for setting up AT&T mail

Strong and secure Internet connection.
AT&T email account user information, such as “Username, email address, and password.”
Below are the correct AT&T email server settings.

Proper AT&T Email Server Setup for iPhone (versions 7 and later)

AT&T Mail IMAP server settings for iPhone
incoming server	imap.mail.att.net
incoming port	143
outgoing server	smtp.mail.att.net
departure port	465 or 587
Safe Harbor	993
security type	SSL/TLS
unsafe port	143
security type	No
Requires an encrypted connection	In
Encrypted connection type	SSL

Step 1: Configuration

To start the setup process, tap the ‘Settings’ app icon on the home page of the app menu on your iPhone.

Step 2: Mail, contacts and calendars

In your iPhone’s settings, scroll down the page until you find the ‘Mail, Contacts & Calendars’ option.
Tap on it to navigate to the ‘Mail, Contacts and Calendar Settings Page’.

Step 3: Add an account

From there, you need to tap on the “Add Account” option which is available just below the iCloud label.

Step 4: The rest

Then select the name of your email provider ‘Att.net’ if it is available in the list of providers. However, in case ‘Att.net’ is not available, select ‘Other’ as an option from the available list.

Step 5: Add an email account

Then, you just need to tap on the “Add Email Account” option to continue with the setup process.

Step 6: User data

Now, to add your AT&T email account to your iPhone, you need to enter the following ‘User Details’ of your account in the relevant text fields:

Name: Enter your full name (can be any name) and tap the ‘Next’ button.
Email – Enter your AT&T account email address and tap the “Next” button.
Password – Enter your AT&T email account password and tap the ‘Next’ button
Description: Enter a short personal description or simply enter ‘AT&T Email’.

Step 7: Next

Once you have finished entering the above information about your AT&T email account, tap the “Next” button to enter the “AT&T Email Server Settings”.

Step 8 – Configuring the incoming mail server

To enter iPhone AT&T settings in ‘Incoming Mail Server Settings’ section, you need to select ‘IMAP’ or ‘POP3’ as the account type option. So based on your choice:

If you selected ‘IMAP’, enter the following information:

Hostname: Enter ‘imap.mail.att.net’
Username: Enter your ‘AT&T Email Account ID’
Password: Enter your ‘AT&T Email Account Password’

And, if you selected ‘POP3’, enter the following details:

Hostname: Enter ‘inbound.att.net’
Username: Enter your ‘AT&T Email Account ID’
Password: Enter your ‘AT&T Email Account Password’

Step 9 – Configuring the outgoing mail server

Similarly, in the ‘Outgoing Mail Server Settings’ section, you need to enter the settings below based on your choice of ‘IMAP’ or ‘POP3’ account type.

If you selected ‘IMAP’, enter the following information:

Hostname: Enter ‘smtp.mail.att.net’
Username: Enter your ‘AT&T Email Account ID’
Password: Enter your ‘AT&T Email Account Password’

And, if you selected ‘POP3’, enter the following details:

Hostname: Enter ‘outbound.att.net’
Username: Enter your ‘AT&T Email Account ID’
Password: Enter your ‘AT&T Email Account Password’

Step 10: Save

After carefully entering the ‘Incoming and Outgoing Server Information’ mentioned above, tap on the ‘Save’ option. This will save your AT&T email account to your iPhone.
Also, you need to make sure that the ‘Mail’ option is checked.

Step 11: Incoming Mail Server

Now you have to check if all the entered settings are correct or not! To do this, select the recently added ‘AT&T Email Account’ on the next screen.
Then scroll down to tap on the “Advanced” option to make sure the following information appears on the screen:

Use SSL: Yes
Authentication: your AT&T password
Server port: 993 (for IMAP) or 995 (for POP3)

Step 12: Outgoing mail server

Similarly, under ‘Outgoing mail server’, go to ‘Mail server section’ and tap on ‘smtp.mail.att.net’ to ensure that the following information appears on the screen:

Use SSL: Yes
Authentication: your AT&T password
Server port: 465

Step 13: Done and Reboot

Once you’re done entering and verifying your AT&T email server details, tap the “Done” button in the top right corner.
Then go back to the previous screen to exit the ‘Settings’ of your iPhone.
Finally, ‘Reboot’ your iPhone to finally finish the setup process and activate your added AT&T email account.

Step 14: Use an AT&T email account on the iPhone

Congratulations, your AT&T email account is now set up on your iPhone. You can now access your AT&T email account to send and receive att.net email on your iPhone.

So this is the whole setup process how you can connect your iPhone to your AT&T email account using AT&T.net email service provider. However, as stated above, the configuration can also be done directly by selecting ‘Yahoo’ as the email provider. And, here, follow the steps of the same—

Open the ‘Settings’ of your iPhone.

Below that, tap on ‘Mail, Contacts & Calendars’.

Then select the ‘Accounts’ option.

Also, tap on the “Add Account” option.

Now here you have to select ‘Yahoo’ instead of ‘Other’ as your email provider option.

After that, steps ‘5 to 15’ are the same.

That’s all! We hope this comprehensive step-by-step guide on the AT&T iPhone setup process will help all AT&T email account owners to set up their Att.net email account on iPhone (especially those with no technical background). . However, if you run into the “AT&T email account not working on iPhone” problem after setting it up on your iPhone, luckily we also have a detailed troubleshooting guide. And we assure you that it will be worth considering!

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