Why does Apple‘s iOS want access to my Gmail account?

Guitar75 wrote:

I should have included that Apple‘s iOS wanted access to read, delete etc. my emails. That was what concerned me but it is something they had been doing all along.

That's not true and paranoia. Apple is not reading your emails. They won't delete your emails. They can't delete your emails. Only you can read and delete your emails IF you grant iOS access to your accounts.

There is truly no platform, which protects your data better than iOS.

Well, if iOS can’t read your emails how can it display the contents of the emails to you?

Outlook will do the same thing, as will any other email client. They're all set up to request access in order to finish setting up your Gmail account.

Well that would make sense. Especially, since you changed your gmail account password.

I hope we've given you peace of mind.

That's correct. If you don't enter the correct mail credentials in the mail app, you won't see, be able to respond to, or be able to delete email.

The above scenario happened to me , now I don't recieve my gmail on the phone .

Can you please provide more information? Are you trying to add your Gmail account to the Apple Mail app? If so, then yes, Apple will need information about that account in order to bring that email to the app where you may read it. If I am guessing wrong, please describe the circumstance where Apple is trying to access your Gmail account.