mail slow to update in iOS 13

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I have an XS and have been experiencing the exact same problem with all releases of iOS 13. This is incredibly frustrating and time consuming. What will it take to bring this to Apple’s attention so that it is addressed?

To be specific, I think there are two separate situations. One is where I receive an audible notification of new email but no new messages appear in my ‘all inboxes’ view. I have found that by navigating to the inbox of a particular email account, for example Gmail, and then back to the ‘all inboxes’ view, the newly revived messages will then appear.

The other situation is where I can clearly see new messages in my inbox but when I click on one of them, the message content/body does not appear (ie it’s blank). I have not yet identified repeatable steps / workaround to make the message body appear but once enough time has lapsed, it appears.

Not acceptable...

I so regret updating to IOS 13.1.3 my iPhone is noow so slugggish it is almost impoosible to use. If there was a Apple representative reading here I would tell him to tell Apple to shove it up their ***.

+1 for the having the exact same issue as original post. I've tried removing the mail app and reinstalling, flipping the mail accounts off/on, and changing the mail view settings (thinking maybe my legacy thread settings are slowing it down). Nothing works. This is a huge problem as I can't rely on Apple Mail with iOS 13. Not sure what to do here.

So I found something that resolved the issue for me. You need to turn off Siri and background search settings, restart and wait overnight. Go to settings, mail, Siri & Search and turn everything off. It will take a few hours or overnight to see the impact.

Hi!

First, try re-configuring your mail boxes. Maybe there's some authentication issues are going on.

Second, try re-configuring the fetch method.

Here's how:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201419

You also can walk trough entire article, other things might help to.

Let me know it changed anything for you.

FYI, everyone:

A. I have spoken with Apple Tech Support about these issues. They are aware of them and hope to fix Mail soon.

B. There are two stop-gap solutions:

1. Most (or everyone?) with this problem are experiencing unusable Mail when going to All Inboxes. If you choose just one e-mail account Inbox at a time, the Mail app works perfectly well, or close to it.

2. Use Outlook, which is a fantastic e-mail app. :)

@88

a few questions if you don’t mind since I’m contemplating what you’ve done.

1. can Apple mail and outlook coexist while both receiving iCloud mail
2. were you using iCloud mail or something else like gmail
3. if you left both Apple mail and outlook signed in did they both push to your phone or did you have to set one to fetch
4. finally, I assume you created an app specific password when you signed outlook into your iCloud account.

Another couple of hints I am seeing...

1. When I see badge notifications and open email, it takes +/- 10 seconds for the new messages to appear when I open iOS mail. If I click on the filter button at the bottom left side of the screen, the messages appear instantly. Navigating back to the unfiltered view provides visibility to all messages including the new unread messages...
2. I was on an airplane last week and checked my phone for mail after we took off and I had already initiated airplane mode. Again, the badge icon indicated I had 3 unread messages. When I opened the iOS mail app there were no new messages. I then clicked on the filter button and poof... 3 new readable messages. When I clicked on the filter button again, I returned to my full list of messages including the new unread email messages.

There is clearly something amiss somewhere between iOS and the mail app. The messages are clearly downloading without issue as they were present and available even in airplane mode but not visible in the app until I applied the filter. One test that would have been interesting would have been to see if the messages appeared if I waited the requisite 10 seconds without applying the filter button... I will try to remember that next time I am flying.

I have the iPhone XS Max and I have been experiencing the same issue since the last update. This is completely ridiculous from Apple side. I bought supposedly the best phone in the market, but I am considering to switch to Galaxy. It is even for videos sent through email as well

Both my husband and I have tried all the suggestion for both our IPhones and IPads. Sadly nothing has changed. Email still shows up as no content. Down loading extremely slow.

hope this gets resolved soon.

Same problem. Tried the fix above but doesn’t seem to have changed anything. Very frustrating. I often have to open emails 2-3 times before the email counter will disappear and downloading is incredibly slow.

Same issue on my XS Max... 12 was so much better. Email in ios13 is horrible. I have the same issues and my work forces me to use Apple’s email app. The background refresh doesn’t work.. so notifications don’t work... so my Apple Watch is now useless as I monitor VIP emails via notifications. Totally broken now.

Apple, please fix this! This kind of irritation is totally unacceptable. I’m stuck with your devices that don’t work.... I’m a very angry customer who may need to switch to Android hardware just to get something that works.

please fix this!!!