You can import mail, calendars, reminders and contacts from Hotmail server to iPad. If no mistakes when you input your email ID or password, you will pass the authentication and a new dialogue like below shows up: When you have filled up the required info in last step, tap on Next to proceed. Your iPad Air will then verify your HOTMAIL login credentials.
So a good email account description would be your full email address or something more descriptive such as Matt Hotmail. For example, if you add Matt as the email account description, you will be confused as you may have Matt used as an Yahoo email account description, if you simply use Hotmail as the email account description, you may have multiple Hotmail accounts.
Although you can simply add any text as the email description, it is highly recommend to use something descriptive especially when you have many emails or even multiple hotmail accounts to be setup on the same iPad. Make sure to use your full email address including the part, such as The description is something to help you easily find out it is your Hotmail account from the existing email accounts list. In the new page, enter Hotmail ID, Password, Description.
We recommend you adding Hotmail to iPad via option which can sync your mail, contacts, calendar, reminders from Hotmail server to iPad. To add Hotmail to iPad Air, you can choose the Exchange, or Other option to proceed. Apparently there is no option like Microsoft Hotmail which we may find in earlier iPad models or iOS versions. You will then find a list of all available email service providers, including iCloud, Microsoft Exchange, Google Mail, Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail. Tap on Add Account option below the active email accounts list. You can refer to this tutorial to add Outlook, Hotmail, Live mail to iPhone. If you are on the latest iOS 11, Go to Settings > Accounts & Passwords and tap Add Account. Select Mails, Contacts, Calendars, you will then see a list of all existing email accounts configured on your iPad air. Tap to open Settings on your iPad Air or iPad mini home screen. Setup Hotmail Account on iPad Air & iPad Mini If so, how do I get my iPad Air or iPad mini to sync with hotmail? Check out below tips and tricks. Don’t be confused as iPad Air or iPad mini is actually powerful enough to support most email services that are compatible with IMAP or POP protocols. So new iPad Air & iPad mini users may think their Hotmail won’t work on the iPad because it doesn’t even come up as an option. Hotmail is not an option on iPad any more. When you go to Settings, then Mail section trying to add Hotmail on iPad Air, iPad mini, you can only find options like iCloud, Microsoft Exchange, Google Mail, Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail. Want to setup your Hotmail account on iPad Air, iPad mini or other models? New iPad Air users may have trouble adding their Hotmail email to iPad Air as there is no Hotmail option found during the configuration process.