Got a New iPhone or iPad? Here’s How to Set up iCloud Email on Spike

If you just picked up a new iPhone or iPad, you’re likely going to want to set up your iCloud email on Spike. Unlike Gmail, Apple doesn’t have a native third-party login window for your account, so you’ll likely need to set up an app-specific password with iCloud to add your email.

Generate an App-specific Password for Spike

To generate an app-specific password with iCloud for Spike, follow these handy instructions (it’ll take about five minutes):

Add iCloud Email to Spike

You can now use your iCloud account on Spike to receive all of your @icloud, @mac, and @me email, and chat with people using Spike’s chat-like messenger interface. What’s more is that you can also start unlocking all of Spike’s superpowers like Spike’s online and collaborative Notes, a merged calendar, Spike Groups, and more. Spike starts just like your previous email app that can consolidate all of your email accounts, but it ends up being a complete digital workspace that can manage projects, become your task tracker, your video chat hub, and more.

Take a look around the app, and go ahead and set up a few message templates for your iCloud email. With Spike Message Templates, you can take anything you routinely email and create a template for easy access to it each time you need to send it. Do you have a frequent response for how you reply to incoming sales pitches? What about requests for purchases? With Spike’s Message Templates feature, you can customize a canned response and use it each time you need it. Customize it to your heart’s desire, save it to your library, and then reuse it over and over.

Don’t stop your workflow by taking your hands off the keyboard, either. Spike lets you easily insert a template with keyboard shortcuts. When creating an email, simply type “/” (forward slash) to select and insert your template. Slash, enter, and done. 

Your iCloud email in Spike also now supports @mentions. When teams are spread out across multiple time zones, your work is often asynchronous, meaning that you work at different times. If you wake up with multiple Spike Groups to look through, the @mentions will help you focus on the messages that require your attention.

All you need to do is type “@” and start typing the contact’s name. Use the arrows to select the contact and press enter (or click if you love using your mouse), and they’ll instantly be added into the conversation if they aren’t already there.

If you have more than a single email address, don’t stop at adding just your iCloud account either. Spike works with Gmail, Google Workspace, Yahoo, Outlook, and more. To add more accounts, repeat the same process of taping on the Spike icon in the left on, click Add Account and repeat the process over for as many email addresses as you have.

Revoke your App-specific Password in iCloud

If you need to revoke an app-specific password in iCloud, you’ll need to visit Apple’s Manage your Apple ID page once again and repeat the process from the beginning of logging in.