AOL Email on iphone 13 Not Updating Automatically

So it seems that eventually, the automatic updates stop. If you reboot the phone, they start again ... eventually stopping. There is obviously a bug in iOS that Apple seems either resistant to acknowledge or reluctant to fix.

Actually, I restarted my iphone and it was working fine for a few hours. Now it stopped. Same symptom as others have described in other threads on this topic. I'm not so sure it's related to AOL specifically. I think it might be an iOS issue.

If you search this group or google the symptom, you'll find many many complaints about this very same symptom happening on iphones. It's not targeting only me. The idea of getting automatic email refresh to work by reboot and it eventually not working with the only way of getting it to work again is via another reboot screams defect. It makes no sense to blame the email provider, if it was the provider, it would not work at all.

Well, we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. I'm telling you I have proven that you can have your mail automatically updated from AOL to Apple Mail. It's happening as we speak. Now, it may be true that if you close your mail app that this "discontinues" the auto update (and in my opinion, this is a bug). I don't know what else to say.

Do you know the difference between online and batch? It should not be necessary for an app to be open "online" in order for an OS to be able to update it's database in the background. And in point of fact, when you reboot the phone to "clear" whatever is causing the defect here, it DOES update automatically in the background without opening it. It continues to update for a period of hours and then stops again.

Same thing happens with gmail. It's a bug in iOS. There is absolutely no other possible explanation when a reboot of the phone clears things up temporarily every time no fail.