mail slow to update in iOS 13

Well, this seems to have fixed it for me ! Turned everything off in Siri & Search (mail settings,) rebooted, worked right away. Thanks !

I have noticed a moderate improvement in speed by disabling Siri Suggestions and Learn From This Appl in Settings > Siri & Search.

I swapped to the outlook mail App last week. It has been problem free so far. Such a relief. It is just a bit of a pain to get used to it, but at least I’m getting my mail on time.

I got rid of the issue when the upgrade before this one came out. Resetting the IPhone and starting from the latest update which it was 13.something. My email went back to normal.

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. Can recommend you a few:

1. Spark (https://apps.apple.com/app/id997102246);
2. Gmail (https://apps.apple.com/app/id422689480);
3. Outlook (https://apps.apple.com/app/id951937596).

These are the best I know. You can add any mailboxes to these clients (not just @gmail.com in Gmail, for example) and each of them have some special features (Spark has the most). Check them out, I'm pretty sure you'd live them :)

I have the same issue after updating to IOS 13 (it is now version 13.3). A new message content is blank and it stays like that for the whole day unless I hard reset the iPhone (press and hold the Sleep/Wake button + Volume Down button in iPhone 7). After the restarting and opening Mail, messages will be updated. Such a annoying bug remaining after three updates is unacceptable.

struggled for last 3 months with the iOS 13 on loading emails until today. The emails have been responding less sluggish thus far.

Basically you need to do a hard restart. The one with volume up/down hold right key until logo appear thing. Google it. I have iPhone 8 btw

Ok, so I got in touch with Apple a few times and eventually a senior support advisor who was very helpful escalated it the engineer last week and called me back yesterday with an update. Apple have now accepted it is a software fault as they have received numerous complaints but have said they have no ETA on a software patch. Basically, I think they are trying to tell us that we just have to wait for iOS 14 for it to be fixed. What a poor show on Apple's behalf to have let such an annoying bug to be present for almost 1 year.

Whats bizarre is that a lot of people I'm assuming don't have this problem. The senior advisor told me that he has an iPhone and iPad Pro and none of these problems I mention are present on his devices. He even played back my screen recording and said he definitely doesn't have that problem.

Oh well...

After having this problem for over a year I think I have solved it and I can't believe I didn't just try this before. Basically, just remove the Mail app from the phone, so delete it totally. Reboot your iPhone. Reinstall the Mail app from the App Store. Open the Mail app and login with one of your accounts, then switch on the 'mail' toggle for all your accounts which will still be in your settings and turn on notifications / banners etc again. Thanks, hope this works for you also :)

Force quitting the app will typically solve the problem temporarily. Sometimes I try opening my archive folder and then reopening the inbox.

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.

Problem was worse for me in 13.1.x, 13.2 now seems to update the counter on the app immediately, but like others have posted, mail is only fetched when the app is open or for a short period after. Background last 24 hours 3m, last 10 days 35mins.

Really disappointing as this was an application (apart from the conversation issue they had early on) that has worked reliably. Like many of us this is now our personal and work phone and Apple do need to get this sorted, which I'm sure they will as they are aware of the issue.

Not a fix to Apple Mail, but I got fed up and just started using the Outlook app (to which you can add mail providers other than Hotmail etc). It’s actually a much nicer interface so quite satisfied with the switch. With Apple’s inertia, I suspect I won’t be the only one they’ll be losing to competitor apps.

This problem is apparently a subtle interaction. For instance, I have only one mailbox linked to my iPhoneX running 13.2.3 but I still experience the problem. The iPhoneX mail app does not update unless I press the filter at lower left to show only unread messages. Then it immediately updates. Go figure.