ICloud Mail is Slow

Same issue I've been having for over a month. It's impacting my productivity which is beyond annoying. Why is Apple not addressing this? Absurd.

It's everything, from dragging email to folders, to deleting emails, sending emails....

My iCloud mail has BEEN SLOW for a WEEK. NOTHING has changed in my setup. IT SUCKS. I'm seriously thinking of switching to gmail. I've had this issue repeatedly over the last few years. The browser is waiting for the server. I'm on a fibre optic 90MB link.

Same issue here, iCloud mail has been slow on all our iOS and Mac OS devices for the past 4 days. All devices up to date. Other mail service (Gmail) has no issue.

If this can't be addressed honestly from Apple soon they will start seeing loss of users and lawsuits.

This has been happening to me for the past few days, too, and it's almost 6 weeks after you posted this. So far, I have stumped THREE Apple tech support people, who have not come up with a solution to this for me. It's making iCloud email close to unusable for me (and btw, this is NOT happening with any of my other email accounts, all of them managed in Mail—only in my iCloud mail account).

The third tech support person suggested clearing out all unwanted mail from my iCloud account, and I deleted thousands in the last two days. But so far, it has had no effect on the problem.

Is this just a hopeless situation?

After the 10am slow down things seemed to get better. An hour or two later it seemed like the “checking for mail” and “updated just now” were completing faster than they had been. So I went and turned off my email forwarding. And things have definitely improved, unless I’m just deluding myself and today is really a holiday that I wasn’t aware of.

But the emails that had been taking a minute or so to load are appearing almost immediately. And the test emails I sent myself came in about 30 seconds instead of 3-5 minutes as before. I am keeping all my digits crossed but this does seem almost back to normal. A couple more emails came in as I was typing this and they both loaded immediately, other than late evenings and weekends that was the first time that has occurred for those specific emails. Still holding my breath but something has changed.