mail slow to update in iOS 13

I also updated to iOS 13.3 in the hope of a solution (based on Apple's optimistic release notes), but the problems persist on my iPhone X. As conrad234 mentions above, I have to exit from the "inbox", open the "sent" box (or another one), and then reopen the "inbox" in order to get my incoming emails ... very cumbersome and time-consuming.

You are right. The problem appeared on most email clients.

when I enabled Signal Messenger’s access to contact data on ios13.0 it started on my phone. Signal was useless. It got killed by the os. As soon as I deleted all contacts ( 5000 with 100 groups) Mail started to behave normally again. So I reduced the groups and deleted all local contacts. When I resynced contacts fron iCloud thinges turned towards normal for me.

I have the issue with the apple email app where you put all you email accounts together. In the other hand, I downloaded Gmail and hotmail app separated and they work perfect. It is obvious that apple has an issue and it is a big one.

This resolved for all our company's iOS devices. Thanks so much for sharing and for your positivity! Almost didn't see it amongst all the negative posts surrounding it.

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

You can also check “fetch data” switch to every 15 minutes from

automatic since automatic only pulls if on WiFi. I don’t know if there was a previous setting that was better. It should offer automatic no matter if in WiFi or

cellular. This is a BUG.

Same issue here. I tap on the "Unread Mail" icon and then immediately back to All Mail and everything shows up. Outlook Mail works fine.

I’m using Outlook right now instead of the buggy Apple Mail app...

it’s quite good

finally I found a workaround that does not degenerate after a day: Microsoft Outlook for iOS (sic!). I use it for my imap and gsuite Mail accounts.

+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.

I have an open engineering ticket for the last three weeks. They know it’s messed up but have no fix for it yet.

13.3.2 was supposed to fix it, but failed in spectacular fashion.

at least they haven’t tried the ol’ reset your phone to plain and start over thing and admitted it’s at the OS level. I think mainly because I sent them diagnostics from two iPads and an iPhone all exhibiting the same behavior 😖

It seems to have a connection to syncing contacts. After disconnecting from icloud mail worked again. then, after contacts were synced again, the mail app slowed down again, rendering the iphone useless for mail.

Even third party mail apps like Gmail stop working after they ask for permission to read accounts. I have 5000 accounts and had never a problem on ios 12,11,10,9..

My current workaround is to use gmail iOS app to instantly retrieve emails. I, too, get the message header only (via iOS mail app) and blank content with spinning wheeliething. Also have intermittent probs with (unrelated other than iOS 13.x) voicemail (“mailbox full” when not & Verizon has had many complaints...apparently relayed to new iOS and network syncing issues).

looking forward to resolution, like so many users

It takes 20-40 seconds to update any Exchange folder (Input, Sent,...) on my iPad 5th generation with iOS 13.3 It seems that every time the folders are „created“ again : Checking For Mail / Updated Just Now / waiting 20-40 seconds until Mails shown - this is independent from the Wi-Fi connection/speed. Obvious bug, all was fine with iOS 12.x

Very annoying :-(

I tried Apple Support. The rep wasn't aware of the problem, but she acknowledged it when I sent her the link. We tried toggling it back from push to fetch and back to push. It didn't solve the problem for me, as I am having the same issue.

And your company will continue to lose money. Because Apple does not care.

Why don’t you reset your iDevice and reset all the accounts?

Not only do they not care, but they’re MORE THAN HAPPY TO WASTE YOUR TIME.