iPhone: some emails in “All Sent items” showing as unread

I’m having same issue on an iPad Air 2 set up for AOL mail. The issues seems to have initially occurred in the last few weeks and IMO likely due to one of the IPadOS updates.

It probably has nothing to do with an update. It's been a problem for Verizon hosted email accounts, which include AOL and Yahoo.

How is Apple going to fix a Windows issue?

And if you want Apple to hear you this is not the place to do it, as Apple does not participate in this user-to-user forum.

https://apple.com/feedback

Well, us guys are just users like you. And the fact that it happens on a Chromebook proves that it’s not an Apple problem or anything that Apple has any control over. Thank you for that insight.

Well, I have 6 email addresses in my mail app, and none of them exhibit this problem. I don't have my yahoo email address in Mail so I can't see if it has a problem for me. But most likely it's something odd about Yahoo, so you might want to check a Yahoo support forum.

Having same exact issue.

If sending an email from my Yahoo email address, whether I do it through the mail app on iOS or on through Mac Mail, those sent messages are marked as unread in both "All Sent" folder on iPhone and in individual Yahoo account sent folders on both iPhone and Mac.

When sent through my Mac Mail, I have noticed a delay in Yahoo sent messages being downloaded to my iPhone. But that might just be something between my two devices.

If anyone finds a solution to the issue re: Yahoo sent email being marked as unread on both an iPhone and/or a Mac, I would really appreciate you sharing.

Many Thanks,

B

Larry, I ain't a tech guy - especially not a Level 9 and I only have 8 points - I know what I know and I have tried different ways of sending emails and every time I send myself an email from my iphone i get doubles in my sent items, one unread and one read

so stop with the challenging questions - this isn't twitter.

APPLE FIX THE ISSUE

Same here...if sending an email through Yahoo webmail, the "unread email" problem in the sent folder doesn't occur.

Problem occurs on my Mac desktop using Apple Mail and Thunderbird. Also on my Chromebook Gmail app.

Funny thing is, sometimes if I send an email using a NON-Yahoo account through Apple Mail, the sent email will end up in the Yahoo Sent folder and show as unread. Maybe that's a clue for you tech guys.

Interesting point. I guess in these times when the norm is for companies to always try to blame someone else (whether correctly or incorrectly) I never thought of that considering the fact that Apple basically said that it must be their issue. I am trying to upload logs from my Mac for their engineers to look at but have not been able to get them to successfully transfer (another issue). If I get something back from them I will post it here.

You mean like the people who posted in this very thread that they have this problem on their Android phone? That was very helpful. And the people who posted that they had the problem using Thunderbird on their computer? Also very helpful. And the people who posted that it only happens with Yahoo and/or AOL, and not with any other email services? Very helpful.

Interested wrinkle... I just downloaded Thunderbird on my Windows laptop and sent a test message. The message did NOT appear in Thunderbird’s sent folder as unread. Everything worked normally on that end. Not sure what that means but I thought I would add it to the discussion.

Hi All. Not just Yahoo. Having the same issue with AOL. It's been weeks. Happens 100% of the time on my Mac (High Sierra), and only occasionally (I think) on my iPhone (iOS 12.4.1). Making me nuts. Glad to hear it's not just me. And clearly not AOL. Nor due to (either) recent system update. Just appeared one day, about 2 months ago.

Since you didn't bother to read the thread, I'll point out that AOL and Yahoo are the same, running (or not) on the same servers. Verizon owns both AOL and Yahoo, and Verizon mail (which also uses the same servers) has the same problems.

Yes, I saw that fact after I posted. For some reason not all of the thread had loaded for me, until after my post showed up. Tried to offer as much as I could to the conversation. Forgive me if my behavior wasn't up to your standards.

The unread sent email is more than enough. Now my incoming text messages are going to the unknown sender tab and then once I open them they migrate contact and SMS to tab. Apple needs to get this crap fixed. We spend waaaaay too much money on their products to have to deal with these nuisances