Email not sending on iPhone

The feature is fine, just make its operation user friendly.

If you close the Mail app before the clock has run out, the email disappears forever. That's what everybody here is complaining about.

Just swipe (no force close) and hey presto - the email you carefully crafted has disappeared from everywhere forever (despite the "woosh").

Terrible UX.

juliangallow wrote:

Just swipe (no force close) and hey presto - the email you carefully crafted has disappeared from everywhere forever (despite the "woosh").

it doesn’t on any of my 4 iOS devices. My mail sends after I have closed the mail app by returning to the Home screen, after the 10 second delay I have set. Have you actually tested this? I did, several times.

Same here - it took me two very angry customers to realize that I was locking my phone directly after hearing the whoosh sound and that was causing emails to disappear without a trace. Maddening to say the least.

Just found this thread: I've had the same problem with one of my email system in iPhone's 'Mail' ever since I upgraded to iOS 16.5.1, which simply sends my emails to 'Outbox' and it stays there; I have 'Delay Sending' switched off. I have iOS 16.5.1 on my iPad and the same email system in 'Mail' sends no problem at all, with exactly the same credentials: most odd and REALLY infuriating!

Hi, many thanks for your timely reply which I appreciate. I have tried all the fixes mentioned above: the credentials (Outgoing Mail Server - Passwords etc.), are the same in iPad and iPhone - iPad functions perfectly, iPhone doesn’t: iPhone emails stay in in ‘Outbox’ in this particular email system that I mention. With any email I send in this particular system I get: ‘Cannot Send Mail’ The server rejected the recipient’s addresses. The message has been placed in your Outbox.

Incidentally, I believe that my issue has everything to do with this thread, 'Some Mail not sending in iOS 16’ no?

Anyway, thanks for your attention to this.

Ah, OK you're right: I was taken in by the header which seemed to fit my circumstances?

I do in fact have a VPN on my iPhone though it’s switched off; I’ll try deleting the VPN profile and App anyway and see what happens: thanks again.

Hmmm……….deleted my VPN profile and App, shut down and re-started my iPhone and the fault remains the same: a most curious fault?

I have a few system operating in ‘Mail’ working fine: I've removed and reinstalled this particular email system from ‘Mail’ several times since the fault started a few days ago; unfortunately I can't seem to find a way around it?

Again, thanks for your help.

Similar issue. However it "sends", I hear the swoosh. it disappears, But then it is not in the sent folder, not in the drafts, not in the outbox, no where, and I follow up with intended recipients, they didn't get the email. this seems to happen more with forwarded and replied emails than new created but happens with all. this is a HUGE issue especially when work time related emails... claiming "but I sent the email!!!"

I am having an issue where I will reply to an email, hit send. It appears to go through, and then days later when I wonder why no one has replied it is because the email never went through. No trace of it at all. Not in drafts, not in outbox, nothing. At first I thought ok, maybe I didn't send it. But now that it's happened probably 25 times since the update, I know its not me. It's causing issues with my job. It doesn't do it every time. Only sometimes. I don't think it has to do with closing the app immediately because most of the time it works. But on the occasions where it doesn't its a MAJOR issue. Apple, PLEASE FIX!

For years, I have been replying to emails through Mail in my iPhones and randomly there will be an “error mail not sent” message and my carefully composed email reply will have vanished without a trace! Gone!

This is so frustrating. To spend so much time composing important messages and they don’t. Send and they vanish. It’s been happening since my iPhone 6plus right through XR and now 14 Pro Max. Vanished, not in draft nit in sent folder. Gone.

Dear Apple, we buy your phones to COMMUNICATE. This ongoing mail failure problem is UNACCEPTABLE! Fix it!

My undo send delay has never been on and I’ve been having this intermittent problem since iPhone6plus was new, through XR to my present 14 Pro Max. It is soo frustrating to not have reliable APPLE MAIL and especially to have my carefully crafted words VANISH without a trace. You must do better, APPLE. Much better!

What I am thinking is that apple and google doesn’t or aren’t compatible with each other because I’ll be at home using my own providers WiFi and no that I’ve got good speed and I can’t send out a damm email on my Gmail and talking about disappearing emails I’m with you on that I’ve even created a special folder and knowing that I saved a email and I’ll be damm it just disappeared but when you talk to apple about it they tell you they have no control over emails it’s the email provider that you need to talk too and let’s freaking forget trying to get ahold of somebody on google

the only thing I disagree with you on your statement is how Samsung is better than a iPhone sorry android are not friendly user and then you have to download **** you don’t need to do on a iPhone but this my opinion Ty.

When I try to receive an email it doesn't work so say now I went to put my email in for something I would go to mail app and see if its their but over the past few years its been going through to my mums phone and I don’t know what to do I've tried backing up my phone and that wont work either

I have exactly the same problem as you.

I too am facing the same exact problem 😒