iOS Email Setup Guide

General: This guide is a step-by-step walkthrough for setting up email on an iOS device for a

University of Cincinnati employee. This guide is only attended for University faculty or staff

with UCMail email accounts.

Guide Requirements:

iOS Device (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch)

Internet Access

UC Faculty or Staff email account (UCMail)

On the main menu, locate the Settings icon and click it.

Click Settings

The screen should now look similar to the picture below. Locate the Mail, Contacts, Calendars

option on the left panel.

Click Mail, Contacts, Calendars

Now Click Add Account…

Click Add Account…

Click on Microsoft Exchange

Click Microsoft Exchange

A popup window will appear. Type your UCMail email account in the 6+2@ucmail.uc.edu

form. Even if you typically give out your alias (firstname.lastname@uc.edu), for now use your

official email address. The password is your UC password.

Type your UC username, and add @ucmail.uc.edu to the end of it here.

For the description, fill out whatever you’d like the account to be referred to as. It is left as

the default, Exchange, in the example below, but you could put a more descriptive name like

Work Email or UCMail. When you are ready, click Next.

Type your email, password, and

description and click Next.

After a moment, new fields will appear on the pop-up window.

New text fields will appear.

Fill out the additional text fields as shown in the picture below. Use your own username and

password. Click Next when you are ready.

Server: ucmail.uc.edu

Domain: ad

Username: UC username (6+2)

When you are ready, click Next.

Now select what items you’d like to sync with your iOS device. Then click Save.

Choose what you’d

like to sync, and then

press Save.

When you arrive back to this screen, you will notice a new accounts listed. Congratulations,

you have just setup your UCMail account with your iOS device.

The email account has been setup and

will start downloading your messages

shortly.