According to our research, about 68% of individuals in 2016 preferred to open emails using their mobile device. In 2011, only about 8% of emails were opened using mobile devices. In just 5 short years the behaviors associated with emails has completely shifted. There has been a 500% increase in the amount of emails opened using mobile devices.

But this is just the beginning! Email systems such as Outlook 365 and Google Apps are taking over the email industry. The lack of emails opened on desktops will continue to decrease. According to our studies, only 32% of emails were opened with desktops, opposed to 68% opened with cell phones. It is proven that the iPhone is the device mostly used to open emails, at 42%.

Schools are switching email systems to Google Apps due to the fact that they are more advanced and simple to use. Teachers and students are able to interact and share files more easily than ever. Google Apps offers students and adults a limited amount of spam emails that they receive.

Schools are getting rid of expensive desktop suites and moving on to better things! According to research, school principals and district superintendents tend to open their emails off the clock on their mobile devices and even responding to the email from their mobile devices. However, they re-open and respond to the emails during their work hours using their work computers, that is why we see increase in re-opening the same email few times.

We can except to continue seeing impressive statistics regarding the usage of emails on smart phones!

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K12Prospects.com is an education email data provider. School principals email list, superintendents email list, and other district titles like IT directors, curriculum directors, assistant superintendents are some of our titles that we provide as an education data with more than 50 data points including email address.