IOS 13 Icloud email not being pushed

Unreal that this isn't fixed by now. Expecting to be notified when you get an email without having to manually check the mail app is basic, basic, basic. This is a pretty huge bug, IMO and I am frankly disappointed (and surprised) Apple wouldn't almost immediately push out an update to fix this.

The pathetically sad thing is that this is most prevalent on Apple's OWN email (iCloud email) - exchange stuff seems to be pushed just fine. So Apple's own iCloud email is failing to be pushed into the mail app.

Apple likes to boast about their stuff working so great because they "design their own hardware AND software". Well - that only works well if their software isn't designed with buggy s#it like this.

Do they not test basic functionality anymore?

#ridiculous

This is all true. I never had a problem with the Apple Mail app before. I hate the Gmail app and was forwarding my Gmail to my iCloud address. It worked great. I’d get instant notifications and when I read an message on my phone it would be marked read on my iPad. I noticed that I was missing messages this way so I transitioned over to solely using iCloud. I updated all of my subscriptions with my iCloud email address and then Apple went and fiddled with the mail app and the iCloud service.

Its not a problem. At least I know that I’m not alone. My husband uses Gmail and doesn’t mind the Gmail app. I don’t like how Gmail thinks it knows better what emails I want to see than I do. This is why I abandoned Gmail.

It has been very frustrating. From what I've found it's not a consistent issue with most users. We have around 35 iPhone users at my work and only one of them in addition to me is experiencing this issue with the mail app. He and I both upgraded to new iPhone pros at the same time and transferred our content and settings from our previous iPhone. I've tried to figure out if there's any pattern to why this issue impacts some but not others.

I’m sure it’s not 100% failing on all iPhones, but it is widespread enough where Apple should be placing this as an extreme high priority bug fix.

The fact that they haven’t fixed the issue this far into iOS13 is extraordinary. This bug has been there since day 1 of iOS 13.

I hope we are not talking into empty space in this forum and that Apple sees us reporting this issue. If anyone knows any emails of Apple leadership- I would hope they may consider notifying them.

This is Apple’s own iCloud email that’s not being pushed. What an embarrassment.

I'm have the same issue. Will not Push t phone. Only fetch once I connect to WiFi or open the email App.

-Made sure phone is up to date

-checked push/fetch settings

-checked cellular data settings

-reset network settings

-hard restart phone

nothing is fixing it.. extremely aggravating.

Hilarious. I opened the mail app this evening and had 13 emails download that were sent from this morning onwards.

Whomever is in charge of Apple’s software experience needs to be fired as iOS 13 is a disaster through and through.

This is totally unacceptable.

“It just DOESN’T work” should be Apple’s new slogan.

So I’m now starting to see a change in push performance. Slowly started to get better these past two days. Today, I can honestly say all emails have been pushed on time. Perhaps as stated above this is a server side issue they are addressing. Crossing my fingers that this sticks and issue is resolved going forward.

I'm still having this issue. Mine seems worse that what y'all have described though. Opening my email app doesn't push my emails, I need to open every single email account within the app for the emails within each account to get pushed. It took a little while to figure that out. So today I went into my school email because I was surprised I hadn't heard back from someone yet, & two emails from two days ago pushed through. So I've had an important email sitting there for two days & I had no idea because it wasn't showing up in the app. I hate IOS 13, I've had so many problems with it. All of these issues makes me want to get out of apple products.

I‘ve exactly the same push problems since iOS 13 (iPhone X). Tried all suggested fixes with no luck. My older iPhone 6 with iOS 12 works as supposed and Mail is „pushing real good“...

It‘s frustrating af, that simple standard features aren‘t working.

Hey Vaishnav (and all others),

I applied all your recommendations and now after a couple of weeks, the download of new mails is quicker.

However, although the notification shows the first part of the mail, it is not being pushed in the Inbox. I still have to wait for a download. Please advise how to improve. Txs.

Hey @harry,

Can I get more details please and make sure you have done the notifications settings I mentioned above correctly and the fetch is 15 min as I said these should be done after the reinstallation of mail app

Hey Vaishnav,

I did exactly what you recommended in your message of Jan 18.

What happens now: I get a notification of a new mail on my lock screen and when I touch it, the mail app is opened. However the mail is not in the Inbox yet, it needs to be (down)loaded first. Hence, I still have to wait for new mails to arrive in my Inbox.

Similar with me, except I don't have the lock screen notification turned on. But the badge shows the correct number of new emails, and as you say, they're not actually in the in box until I open the app and they then download.

And you know what they’re aware of and not aware of how? Also, that’s a lot of code to go through to find what may be something as small as an incorrect or missing character.

There are other mail readers available on the App Store. I have successfully used one. I prefer the Mail app on the phone and I can deal with the minor inconvenience of my messages not being synced across my devices until they fix it.

I would participate in the beta program if I had another device to use but since I only have one I will not do so. As I stated, I have been closely working with a rep and giving them all kinds of information and helping to create logs for the developers.

Sometimes, when they try to improve something, something else goes wrong. You just have to be patient with them. After all, they’re only human.

I haven’t experienced any other issues with iOS 13. Everything else works as expected.

Is it mildly inconvenient to open the mail app and wait a few seconds for the messages to load? Yes.

Is it also mildly inconvenient to open the mail app on my iPad to sync the messages? Yes.

Am I going to let it get me bent out of shape and effect the rest of my day? No.

Getting so mad over something so trivial is a choice you make. It’s just as easy to choose to not let it effect you so deeply. Once the developers find the bug, they’ll squash it. Until then, I get my notifications and I can red my messages. Not such a big deal.