Apple Mail - Inbox Messages overlapping

First, ensure that you have updated to the most recent version of iPadOS - currently iPadOS 14.8 or iPadOS 15.0.2.

If the iPad is already running one of these two versions, force close the Mail App - and then force-restart your iPad.

To force close an App, swipe-upwards from the bottom edge of the screen to the centre - and pause briefly before lifting your finger from the screen; the Task Switcher will open, showing thumbnail images for each App. Swipe the Mail App off the top of the screen.

Next, force-restart the iPad:

• On an iPad with a Home button: Press and hold the top button and the Home button at the same time. When the Apple logo appears, release both buttons.
• On other iPad models: Press and quickly release the volume up button, press and quickly release the volume down button, then press and hold the top button. When the Apple logo appears, release the button.

I was helping a friend who had this problem with a latest model M1 iPad. We tried various fixes found on the internet such as going to default dynamic type sizes, installing the latest updates, force quitting Mail and rebooting. Some helped briefly but none persisted with the double text returning.

The one fix that so far seems to have worked is a hard reset. This is accomplished on the iPad Pro with FaceId by pressing and releasing the volume up button, then the volume down button then pressing and holding the single button until the iPad screen goes black then keep holding until the Apple logo appears. These steps are done in sequence.

I was having the same problem. I force closed the mail app but noticed .there were several mail thumbnails in the gallery. I force closed ALL the apps and it appears to have resolved the issue. To force close: Swipe up from the bottom of the screen, then swipe up on each thumbnail of each app you want to force close.

I have the same problem and it does not go away permanently even after a hard reset. if you do not "zoom" or increase your font text size, or use "bold" on the iPad it will go away. It is maddening one can not use these features, but that is the only way I have had any success with this problem. Hope this helps.. It worked for me..

I updated to 15.4.1, and the problem seems to have been resolved. I hope others are seeing the same.

I have not seen the issue in two weeks, whereas before, I was seeing the issue each time my user used the iPad.

Try rebooting your iPad.

If it doesn't work then, check if there are any software updates you didn't install.

Solved: Overlapping mail is an old deleted mail. Solution: Empty trash completely. Reboot. Problem solved. Hope this helps.

Empty your all of your email trash, shut down the iPad and start it back up again. Other people have suggested this and it worked for me.

I think I may have found the solution. Today I emptied my Junk mail and then emptied my Trash mail, forced closed email app and then turned off ipad - not hard reset, turned ipad on a couple minutes later. So far I do not have any overlapping emails.

I spoke to Apple support about this. As expected, they cannot bring the issue to their engineers unless we've tried a wipe of the device.

So, I not just wiped, but plugged it into my Mac and did a restore. This is supposed to wipe and reload the OS. I then restored data and gave it back to my user. Sure enough, it happened again. Time to get back on the phone to report this to Apple and hope that they do something about it.

Not sure what device this is happening on for everyone else, but it is a 4th gen iPad Pro in my case.

This has been a recurring problem on my iPad for several months. If I reboot, the inbox returns to its clean state, but shortly after the duplicate inbox problem reoccurs. I’ve also tried cleaning our my junk and trash mailboxes, but this is not a fix. Re-installing app in its simple state does nothing either. I feel that Apple should fix this since many are complaining about it and having to constantly reboot is not the user-friendly sophisticated system I expect from Apple.

I noticed this morning that emails in ICloud had blank spaces between them. I deleted all icloud emails and that removed the Inbox overlapping problem. Im hoping this is a permanent solution but it seems for me at least that it is a problem with ICloud emails.

This has been a recurring problem on my iPad for several months. If I reboot, the inbox returns to its clean state, but shortly after the duplicate inbox problem reoccurs. I’ve also tried cleaning our my junk and trash mailboxes, but this is not a fix. Re-installing app in its simple state does nothing either. I feel that Apple should fix this since many are complaining about it and having to constantly reboot is not the user-friendly sophisticated system I expect from Apple.

I'm having this issue as well. Email is an o365 account. It seems to have started after upgrading to iPadOS 15.

I have tried everything suggested here (force reset, latest version, display/font settings, kill Mail app, and reboot) but the issue always comes back. I also set all mail folders to "push" so that when I access those folders, the emails are already there and not all coming in at once, possibly causing this rendering issue. That also didn't do anything and the issue persists.

I haven't tried removing the account and resyncing, or wiping the iPad.

Yes, the fix does seem to be temporary. My friend's issues seems to only involve one email account. It's an IMAP account hosted by her local internet service provider. I'm curious as to which email accounts are causing you problems? Are you seeing it on iCloud, Google or a different email service?