Gmail not syncing across devices in apple mail app

1. All I had to do was open up on my iPhone 13 into the settings
2. In the search bar typed in "Accounts"
3. Select Mail -> Accounts option
4. In the Accounts view look towards the end and in the Fetch New Data, changed the setting to PUSH

Solve my problem instantly. Do this across your other apple devices

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.

On an ios phone or tablet, under the "Mail/accounts/fetch new data" make sure fetch is set to manual.

It seems IOS updates sometimes reset this to "automatically" which even indicates right there that it will only fetch new data when on WiFi and plugged into power. That's one reason it won't resync with Gmail. When set to manual, when you open the mail app or drag down to refresh the inbox, it's manually syncing and will do it properly.

Hope it helps.

I was finally able to get mine to sync. I went to:

• settings
• mail
• accounts
• click on which mail account you want
• account settings
• advanced
• moved discarded messages into deleted mailbox
• Archive mailbox to the archive

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

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!

I deleted the gmail account from mail in setting and re added it and that fixed it. Had the ball ache of deleting lots of emails for an hour but issue now sorted.

Deleting and reinstalling the gmail account from my phone also did the trick. i did not have to go back through everything and re-delete. Problem seems to be solved, at least for now.

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

I was able to fix mine after doing all the other standard things, I went again into settings, mail, and selected the gmail account. Deleted it and then added it again (make sure you know your password to account). It now works smooth as silk and the iPad instantly updates the iPhone. I tried this earlier but software was earlier version so maybe had something to do with it not working first time. You may have to do this on all your devices. It was getting to be a real pain… but now back to way Apple products should work… seamlessly. Good luck

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

Going into settings/mail and removing the account and adding the account back did the trick. Now my gmail on the web is in sync with my iphone & iPad.

I seem to have resolved the issue this morning. I reinstalled the gmail account on my iPhone. Now it seems to be syncing with my MacBook again finally.