Gmail not syncing across devices in apple mail app

Hi, I was going to try this but when I hit delete, Apple gives the warning “contacts, calendars etc affiliated with this account may be deleted”. Do you know how to see what contacts are affiliated with an account? I don’t want to delete the account to solve the mail issue and wind up causing a whole other issue!

My issue is the iPhone mail app keeps saying I have over 200 unread messages when in fact I have none unread. When I delete the read messages the count doesn’t go down. The gmail app says 93 or whatever which is probably true. I review and clean out the other mail app which is what is saying 200 unread. I’m so frustrated. Hours with Apple support to finally say it’s a google/gmail issue and it’s impossible to get support from them.

im fearful to delete any app. I’m not techie!

was that the issue you were having with syncing? This started about 2 weeks ago.

thank you.

I am afraid it's going to take deleting your gmail account and re-installing it. I'm afraid to do it alone- I was going to go ask for help at the Genius Bar but my son says he'll walk me through it. wish me luck

i have been dealing with this for a few months and it seems that it is merely a sync issue on the google backend. Essentially, the backwards sync from phone to gmail smtp server broke and needed to be reset.

Alas, the fix is to delete the gmail account from your phone and reinstall it. that should fix the sync. that bad part is that you have go go back through everything you have deleted since the break and re-delete, etc.

I have a gmail syncing issue. when using gmail on chrome, my deleted and read messages are not syncing with my iphone, ipad and apple mail. Per a community recommendation: I made sure apple mail is set up with IMAP (but I don't use apple mail, prefer reading gmail on chrome). I also made sure gmail is IMAP enabled under settings. In any event, I still see 150+ unread messages on my iphone, ipad and apple mail. Comments anyone?

MacBookPro not syncing with iPhone 13 and I get interrupted by receiving computer computer-generated note saying enter a password. U have to cancel the notice and continue. Also sometimes I have to manually shut down the computer in order to get in touch with the system and

I've been having this problem on my MacBook for some time and just fixed it this way:

Open Mail, click Mailbox in the menu bar, then click Synchronise All Accounts.

Fixed it instantly for me, previously "Get All New Mail" wasn't updating Gmail as it was out of sync. Hope this helps!

This was the solution that worked for me!

I use multiple gmail accounts on the Mail app/prog -- on both my iPhone & MacBook. Typically, I have no issues with syncing changes made in either direction and was being thrown when the changes I made on my iPhone (deleting, opening, moving to folders, etc.) were not syncing with my MacBook.

I opened webmail (mail.google.com, in this case) and found that the changes hadn't been made there either.

While other threads/solutions may be helpful for others (making sure iOS is up to date, phone restarted, fetched new data / synchronized accts on each device, toggled from deleted to archived in advanced settings), I was nearly to the point of deleting & adding the accounts back ... nearly, but didn't want to go through the hassle.

I'm sure glad I found this thread. Toggling from 'Push' to 'Manual' for the gmail accounts on my iPhone (settings > mail > accounts > fetch new data) worked immediately. Changes made on the iPhone synced with webmail and the Mail program on the MacBook in under a minute.

Thank you Jimborino! :)

*upvote, upvote*

Hey Fretnicker, I began experiencing these issues last week and toggling from 'Push' to 'Manual' for the gmail accounts on my iPhone (settings > mail > accounts > fetch new data) solved my issues instantly.

I hope this works for you too. Good luck!

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I use multiple gmail accounts on the Mail app/prog -- on both my iPhone & MacBook. Typically, I have no issues with syncing changes made in either direction and was being thrown when the changes I made on my iPhone (deleting, opening, moving to folders, etc.) were not syncing with my MacBook.

I opened webmail (mail.google.com, in this case) and found that the changes hadn't been made there either.

While other threads/solutions may be helpful for others (making sure iOS is up to date, phone restarted, fetched new data / synchronized accts on each device, toggled from deleted to archived in advanced settings), I was nearly to the point of deleting & adding the accounts back ... nearly, but didn't want to go through the hassle.

I'm sure glad I found this thread. Toggling from 'Push' to 'Manual' for the gmail accounts on my iPhone (settings > mail > accounts > fetch new data) worked immediately. Changes made on the iPhone synced with webmail and the Mail program on the MacBook in under a minute.

i have the same issue that just recently started

Same. I’ve tried everything and it’s incredibly frustrating.

Deleting the offending gmail account on my iPhone and reinstalling it worked to fix this vexatious problem.

I did do both but only the iOS deletion and reinstall fixed the problem.

I’m having the same issue, have you found a fix?

Did you delete your Gmail account from ALL desktop and IOS devices and then re-install them or did you just do one?