mail slow to update in iOS 13

Glad to hear it works for you now. I was also hoping it would help, but it has not helped at all for me.

Same problem, exactly as before - so I definitely cannot join you in thanking Apple :-(

Perhaps iOS 14 or iOS 15 might possible resolve this ...

This issue has remained unresolved for months now. Not a word from Apple either. There are more and more issues pupping up on apple products. I have to spend more and more time every day resolving various types of problems that surface. This morning for instance, impossible to install the last update on Apple Watch. It remains stuck at "Verifying". I tried multiple suggestions. None works so far. Unresolved issues seem to be the new Apple reality.

But fixing that would take time away from developing more Emojis. Besides, who uses an iPhone for mail???

OK, yes.... I'm being sarcastic. I rely on push notifications for monitoring equipment... Delays can mean lost $$$.

I use an android in the office for emails.

I have the exact issue too. Mail worked OK until IOS 13... and now with every update it seems worse. I've tried removing and re-adding my mail accounts, deleting and reinstalling mail app, reseting network settings that just got me more problems with lost wifi passwords not being resynchronised from icloud keychain, turning off siri ... nothing helps. Mail on my iphone is totally unusable! I have to restart my phone, kill the app a few times and still end up waisting 15minutes and 50% of battery just to read and replay ONE SINGLE EMAIL !

Sorry to say, but if this issue is not resolved soon (and I mean VERY soon) I will have to change to android! Mail on a phone is the most important, yes, THE MOST IMPORTANT business app. No mail no business. No business no money. No money no iPhone! Get the picture?!

JF.

Boggles the mind as to why this has not been addressed by Apple. If anyone has read any incisive articles that explore the “why’s”, would love a link—Especially to current article/s (lots of stale discussions piling up as the issue has continued for so long.)

I’d be interested in reading current articles that explore the “why’s” as well.

You’d think broken push mail would be a priority for Apple to fix. It’s a serious regression. I’ll sometimes get mail pushed to the iPhone but not the iPad. I’ll get a new mail badge, and the message fails to appear in the inbox more often than not. Only a manual refresh or toggling of the unread filter will reveal the message. This has been going on since September 2019!

I tried switching to “fetch,” and even that isn’t reliable.

This should be embarrassing for Apple. They ought to apologize if they can’t fix it. Yet they continue to put their heads in the sand.

I switched from Windows XP to Mac back in 2005 because Microsoft failed to fix their buggy OS and took an arrogant approach towards customer complaints. Apple seems to be taking a page from Microsoft’s old book.

I never thought I’d imagine being as disgusted with Apple’s software quality as I am now.

I know for certain that Apple staff are reading these posts. I just wish they’d reply and tell us that there is problem and that they are working on it or this whole thing is a figment of our imaginations and we should all just go away.

Come on, Apple is there an issue or isn’t there?

i have been having the exact same problem for months. It is really doing my head in especially now we are on lockdown. I have to keep checking my emails regularly. My phone alerts me by sound that the email has come in but I don’t see the email for at least a minute. Very frustrating.

I don't use my iCloud email address. The problem occurs with both my personal and business email addresses... Exchange based services and pop3 services.

Its been going on since September... Just crazy!

My experience is the same. Its great how the community continues to live with this problem and is troubleshooting for Apple. Now if we could only get Apple to focus some attention on the problem and get it resolved!

Do not bother trying to fix this issue. It’s most likely a problem with RAM management in iOS 13. Apple is well aware of it but are unable to fix it. Otherwise they would’ve fixed it already.

Instead of admitting it, Apple chooses to drive their users nuts by feigning knowledge of the issue when receiving complaints, ignoring bug reports, or wasting your precious time with meaningless resets and iOS/iPadOS restores.

Apple is a spectacularly profitable company. Acknowledging these complaints about the Mail app would do more damage to them than simply ignoring them.

These complaints have cost Apple’s customers a great deal of time and money. But they do not care because it’s not hurting their profits. They are perfectly fine with making sub-par software nowadays.

Expect more bugs. And do not expect this bug to be fixed in iOS 13, if at all.

Thank you "the whitehart" for your lucid letter.

I'm afraid you are completely correct. I have reluctantly come to realise that Apple has gradually become complacent in its current leading position, and they have simultaneously become less innovative and more unresponsive to customers' concerns. In the long-run, this does not augur well for Apple as a company, but they seem to be oblivious of this in the comfort of the super-profits they are presently enjoying.

I still harbour a slim hope that they might address this "Mail" issue in iOS 14, but I am becoming more and more pessimistic. The future will tell.

Patel Smith wrote:

Turned off your "Low power" mode and turned on "Background App Refresh" you can will get faster update of your Mailbox.

Very funny bro, do you even see mail app in this "Background App Refresh" option? And how they are related then? Low Power and B-A-Refresh are enabled by default actually :P

Thank you "the whitehart" for your lucid letter.

I'm afraid you are completely correct. I have reluctantly come to realise that Apple has gradually become complacent in its current leading position, and they have simultaneously become less innovative and more unresponsive to customers' concerns. In the long-run, this does not augur well for Apple as a company, but they seem to be oblivious of this in the comfort of the super-profits they are presently enjoying.

I still harbour a slim hope that they might address this "Mail" issue in iOS 14, but I am becoming more and more pessimistic. The future will tell.

It is really causing our company problems. We have 8 units and all of them are effected by this email problem which has been going on for what must be a year now. It breaks me to know I’m going to have to switch to Android.