Q: Icloud email is unusably slow on all devices including IOS
Hi,
In the past several weeks, I have noticed that icloud is ridiculously slow to handle requests to access email. This is true on my iPhone 6, my old iPad, my Mac, and my PC using Outlook as a front end.
Moving or deleting an email takes upwards of 20 to 30 seconds. Opening an email take 15 seconds.
On my iPhone, deleted emails reappear at some later time, presumably because the request to the server to execute the delete command timed out.
I have searched the web and found lots of old complaints about this, but nothing new in 2016. This is definitely a new and frustrating problem. I may have to abandon iCloud.
iPhone 6s, iOS 9.3.2, Also Outlook, Mac
Posted on May 17, 2016 9:27 AM
All,
Thank you again for your comments and the time you took to respond to my concerns.
I am happy to report that the issue has been fixed, unceremoniously, in the middle of the night, My icloud email performance is now equal to or better than gmail.
Unfortunately I have no information to add regarding what changed, what got fixed, or if (indeed) my behavior had anything to do with this. I can simply state that I made no changes on my end other than rebooting one of my computers. (Recall this happened on three computers (Mac, PC), and using Outlook as well as the web-based portal on three different web browsers.)
Thank you,
Bill
Posted on May 23, 2016 9:13 AM