This message has not been downloaded from the server.

I have several emails this week that will not download from the server. It is very frustrating as I need to be able read them as they are work related…any solutions 😟

I was also getting this error message all the time and I know the frustration by clearing the Mail app cache the issue is resolved for me. Before that, I tried many solutions from the webpage Fix This Message has not been Downloaded from the Server which my coworker shared with me. So, either the clearing of the Mail app cache worked, or the other solutions also correlated with it.  

No, none of these things solve the issue, which is a long-standing problem and is clearly a problem with iOS. It occurs most frequently with my yahoo account. It’s not a problem with Yahoo, because my yahoo app gets the email instantly. This really is a problem which Apple need to address because it relates to the Apple mail app.

This is a persistent problem in iPhone and iPad. When is something going to be done about it? None of the “fixes” work.

Super irritating. I've tried turning on turning off shutting off the email shutting it back on. My connections or find my Wi-Fi is fine storage is fine everything else is fine except for this. This is nonsense.

I have been experiencing this same issue for months now. Somehow Apple needs to resolve it as we can all be missing very important messages.

Apple, are you on this?

None of these options have ever fixed the issue in the entire 12 years of it being an issue.

Please read the thread. These generic suggestions have not helped. There’s a specific _apple_ issue here which _apple_ need to address.

It is so annoying to have the message ‘not downloaded from the server’ when it clearly has downloaded but just won’t display. It downloads on the iPhone but not the iPad. This is driving me up the wall and there seems to be nothing I can do about it.

In my case it's only with Yahoo!... 7 email accounts on my phone and it's only this one with the issue. Even weirder is that we have one iPhone in the house that has no issues but another iPhone and an iPad (all three devices are relatively current hardware [between 1 and 3 years old] and have the latest iOS updates) have the "message has not been downloaded" issue. I can't see what (if anything) is different between the working and non-working devices.

I have Apple iCloud storage and this (can’t be downloaded BS) happens to me daily! iOS 17 now and still happens.

I have had this problem for a while now also and nothing seems to help. I end up not being able to read them an end up having to trash them

Same here! Thank you for that info!

I found that if I forward these empty emails to myself, the message comes through in that email.

My Apple email is not download from the Service I can’t open it up

Since youre in IT guy maybe you can answer me this question (or not) I think my deleted texts are stuck on the apple server because ever since I updated to ios 17.2 my back up storage keeps increasing instead of decreasing. I delete texts manually everday. I was told by apple it takes to 4 days to delete on the server end and sometimes 180 days but Im wondering if its a glitch in ios 17.2 because it only started happening after I updated to 17.2 monday Dec. 11th Does apple really keep deleted things up to 180 days on the server end or is it longer than that? I was also told it might magically fix itself eventually