GMail not marked read on computer after reading on iphone

Hi BenEvest,

To clarify, is the sync broken both ways? For example, if you go to the web server and read one or more emails, then refresh the Mail app on your iPhone, are they then marked as read?

Additionally, if you haven't already, toggle Mail off and back on under Settings > Mail > Accounts > [your gmail account name]. This forces a resync with the Gmail server.

If the issue continues beyond that, remove the account from your iPhone entirely and add it back.

• Sync photos between your Mac and iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

"Log out of or remove email accounts

1. Go to Settings  > Mail > Accounts.
2. Tap the email account you want to remove, then do one of the following:

• If you’re removing an iCloud email account: Tap iCloud, tap iCloud Mail, then turn off “Use on this iPhone.”
• If you’re removing another email account: Turn off Mail.
  • Note: To remove the email account from all apps on your iPhone, tap Delete Account.

Add email accounts

The first time you open the Mail app on your iPhone, you may be asked to set up an email account—just follow the onscreen instructions.

To add additional email accounts, do the following:

1. Go to Settings  > Mail > Accounts > Add Account.
2. Do one of the following:

• Tap an email service—for example, iCloud or Microsoft Exchange—then enter your email account information.
• Tap Other, tap Add Mail Account, then enter your email account information."

Cheers!

Thanks to everyone who took time to reply and especially to DerekM87. His suggestions worked for me. I tried toggling on and off which didn't help. I then deleted my gmail account on my iphone. It mail not have been necessary but I cleaned out my Safari cache and switched my phone off and back on again. They I added the email back. On my iphone, I clicked on each category of my email account - inbox, sent, drafts, etc including ones that I had added. It added back each one along with my gmail calendar that I use. I'm back in business after several days of frustration. I had also checked to be sure I had the latest apple update which was 16.5.1 at the time but that itself didn't solve it.

If this previously didn't work for you, you might want to try once again or please post for others if you found something that did.

I experienced the same thing. It was happening on devices, apps, and when I'd log in to GMail via a browser. I deleted my GMail account from all of my devices (phone, Mac Mini, iPads), reinstalled it and everything seems to be sync'd up. Hope that helps someone.

When I read gmail on my laptop, the email is marked as read on my iphone, but when I read on my iphone, the email is not marked as read. Leading to same issue of having to delete many emails I'd already read. I just deleted my gmail account from my iphone and added it back, but that did not work (e.g., I opened an email on my phone, read it, but it was showing as unread via the gmail browswer on my laptop). I installed the gmail/google app on my iphone, and that seemed to do the trick. I prefer not to learn how to use yet another app, but I guess it's better than deleting extra emails everyday.

I should have clarified that I had 2 gmail accounts on my iphone and the problem was only with 1 of them. Also, changes made on my computer showed up on my iphone but changes made on my iphone such as "read" and deletions didn't relect back on the gmail on my computer (Windows 10). The fix above solved that.

I should also clarify that after I went thru the above steps of deleting and adding back my gmail account to my iphone, it loaded the current state of my gmail account onto my iphone. Meaning that messages previously deleted on my iphone since this started, showed up again but now when I delete them or read them on the iphone, the change is reflected on my computer gmail. Hope that helps.

I had this problem too... And up until this problem started happening a little bit ago I've realized that people also have not been getting my emails that I've sent from my iPhone 14, even though they all appear to have sent. Tried it on my computer, and they were able to confirm they received it that time. Also, when I deleted the account off my phone and then added it back, I had apparently 70 (I get a lot of emails) unread and somehow back in my inbox after having already viewed them, replied to some of them (which appeared to have sent but didn't), and filed them the way I wanted them, all over again. But I believe after doing that, we're back to normal. Thank goodness somebody already had this question answered or I could have been looking at a much bigger problem!

I have no problem with Gmail on ios16, 15,14,...

Delete the account from all your devices and then add the account back to all of them.

The original response covered this.

Delete emails on your iPhone or iPad – Apple Support

Add an email account to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

Log out of or remove email accounts in Mail on Mac – Apple Support (UK)

Add email accounts in Mail on Mac – Apple Support (UK)

Deleting the Gmail account from iphone and installing it back solved the issue! The only problem, a lot of emails now are again "unread" so you have to go through them again. But once done, it should work smoothly again.

Thank you! I deleted and reloaded my gmail account and it’s back to working beautifully!

I seem to have fixed my issue. I tried all of the suggestions here but nothing worked.

So, I went into gmail on Safari, on a computer, went to settings and turns out the POP transfer was turned off there, not on the iPhone. I also do not know how it got turned off since I don't go around changing my gmail settings but maybe it will help some of you to check this.

mail.google.com then the settings button on the top right -> advanced settings -> Forwarding and POP/IMAP.

Good luck.

delete gmail account from the device where it’s happening and reinstall. Will have to mark many messages as “read” after that since it didn’t do it on main gmail, but once it’s done, it will be good

Deleting and reinstalling worked for me in terms of the sync, but a new issue emerged. My phone says no new messages unless I open the mail app and refresh. I have the push setting on but still it needs a manual push to show messages. Weird!

This might be a good reason to fully migrate over to the Gmail app. My impression is this kind of issue will continue as Apple and Google keep updating and adding new features.

I HOPE someone sees these posts and fixes our issue! Mine is the same - one gmail account works fine with my iPhone syncing with my computer and the other account does not sync at all. So every night I'm deleting tons of messages that I already read and deleted on my phone.

Tonight I got the idea to forward my messages from my gmail account that is not syncing to the account that is syncing. IT WORKED! So now at least when I do things on my iPhone it syncs to my computer and it's less work. If you can't forward to your work gmail - maybe try setting up a new gmail account and forward the account that's not syncing to a new account to see if that works.

Same problem here with one interesting note. Mail on IOS set up with 2 Gmail accounts. One works fine! The other will not mark as read on Gmail after being read or deleted in Mail on IOS. Emails marked read or deleted in Gmail are marked read or deleted in Mail on IOS. All began with IOS 16. Now using IOS 16.3.1 with no fix.