I recently did a soft reset of my iPhone XS. I am running IOS 13.4.1. Since then the only way to get new emails is to open the Mail app. I no longer get notified about new emails on the lock screen. I remember older IOS’s used to have a Push option where you could choose how often your phone would look for new emails but that doesn’t exist anymore. How can I get the phone to notify me of new emails without me having to open the Mail app?
iPhone XS Max, iOS 13
That is not a Push option. Only Exchange accounts can Push, all other accounts Fetch. In Settings, go to Passwords & Accounts. From there, tap on Fetch New Data. Select your individual Mail accounts and make sure they are set to Fetch. Then scroll down on the page under Fetch, and set the time limit for your Fetch. I just will say, do not use Automatically. Read what it says about battery life. I have mine set to Fetch every 30 minutes. I'm not aware of any of my personal mail that needs to be checked more often than that. My work account is an Exchange account, which is Pushed, and that is the only mail I'm worried about.
That is not a Push option. Only Exchange accounts can Push, all other accounts Fetch. In Settings, go to Passwords & Accounts. From there, tap on Fetch New Data. Select your individual Mail accounts and make sure they are set to Fetch. Then scroll down on the page under Fetch, and set the time limit for your Fetch. I just will say, do not use Automatically. Read what it says about battery life. I have mine set to Fetch every 30 minutes. I'm not aware of any of my personal mail that needs to be checked more often than that. My work account is an Exchange account, which is Pushed, and that is the only mail I'm worried about.
Thank you. I went into that section of Settings. My main Mail account was set to Fetch whereas my iCloud one, which I never use, was set to Push. I changed that to Fetch. But under the Fetch section, Automatically was already checked & yet my iPhone still does not seem to notify me of new emails unless I open up the Mail app.
iCloud, as an Apple account, can support Push. If your main mail account was set to Fetch, did you check to see what the Fetch timing was? As I said earlier, Automatic is not the setting to put it on. Set it to one of the time settings for it to Fetch mail. Then check your notifications to ensure you get notice of mail being Fetched.
I must have misunderstood you. I thought the problem with the Automatic setting was a battery drain issue but that my phone should still notify me of new emails. Mine, as I said before, was not doing that. Having said that I did switch the Fetch timing to 15 minutes & it seems to be working fine. Thank you!
You're welcome. What I was referring to was to see what it said about battery life for setting your fetch time. Glad it is working for you now.
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