mail slow to update in iOS 13

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.

I am also having the exact same issue, never happened to me before IOS 13. Would really like to know why my mail is so slow to come in all of a sudden.

Me too. Both .2 and .3 the same. Delete mail and it takes a good few seconds to update app counter. Incoming mail is also sluggish. Not at all I would expect from Apple

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!!!

Yes, I am having the same problem with 13.1.3. When I click into my 'unread' inbox there are still 'read' messages in there, whereas in previous iOS updates the refresh was much quicker and only unread e-mails were displayed.

Please FIX THIS Apple, I need access to my unread messages only in an instant due to a busy workload.

Like many other users of iOS 13 (in all released versions up to .3), the email App has become slow and balky. All settings adjustments, reloads, restarts etc have not fixed it.

Fire alerts and power shutdowns in Sonoma County are a big deal right now and my iPhone email notification has been rendered useless by this unfortunate Apple iOS13 update - I get an email tone and preview but I can’t actually read the email for 20 minutes or more.

One thing I noticed is that since iOS 13, mail background activity disappeared entirely (went to zero) in the battery settings. This changed yesterday when I added some vibration notifications to email accounts. Hypothetically this behavior could be an optimization where knowing that all other forms of notifications other than sound require the user to wake up the phone in order to see them, that it doesn't perform the background work at the expense of a delay in seeing the email when you do pick up the phone and check. It could also be a straight up bug where adding sound notification clears up an underlying data issue that affects background mail processing. I had previously had no sound or vibration notifications for any email accounts as it is super annoying due to volume of email. This morning when I woke up, mail showed background activity for the first time since updating to iOS 13.

On all of the iPhones that I support: No e-mail issues with iOS 12. But every phone running iOS 13 is *massively* slow for “All Inboxes” (unified InBox). Each individual e-mail account’s own InBox is fine.

”All Inboxes” was instant and always updated promptly and in real times with iOS 12, but now is massively slow and takes forever with iOS 13.

On both newer and older iPhones.

Update: The new iOS 13.2 is much better/faster than iOS 13.1, but still much slower than iOS 12! Makes the native Mail app almost unusable.

And no third-party mail apps have any similar issues at all.

Just bought new iPhone 11 Pro and when I go to delete a message in mail there’s a few seconds delay when I swipe to delete. A few times mail just froze completely, had to soft restart phone. Very frustrating!!! Was excited to get new 11 pro, not so excited now!