This message has not been downloaded from the server.

For what it is worth. I have escalated it to Apple today. It turns out that they know there is an issue and are actively wanting to pursue it. So maybe, just maybe, they will be able to fix it in future updates of iOS.

I called about this and other issues yesterday. They insisted it was an AOL email problem. I was firm that this is happening to hundreds of thousands of Apple iPhone users who don’t use AOL for their mail and this was a UNIVERSAL problem. The rep sai something like “at Apple, we like to look at each issue INDIVIDUALLY! This is nuts! Also, it has adversely affected us in so many ways. My doc sends a link to our telehealth appt. I’m late for it. My insurance sends a one time password….** the time it opens, it’s expired. My “game night” web ex link won’t open and I’m late for that! Arrrgghhhh!!!!!

I fixed mine the other day and here’s how you do it one. Go to your yahoo email and search for an email that you know you have many of. 2

Then press edit.

put your finger on the top left-hand corner of your screen with a very light touch run your finger down to the bottom of your screen and hold it there and every single email that you’ve searched over the years will come up.

3. Hit the button.

Deleted emails that way it works just fine

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.  

It gets better. Not only is it doing this to me for an email that I need to get a link from and that the phone did have yesterday, but when I hit reply on the message it says hasn’t been down loaded, it shows the full body of the message in the reply, so it absolutely has already download it and does have it. This bogus, fake error message is nothing but complete broken nonsense from Apple, making it harder for us to use the phone to do crucial things that we need to do in our businesses, for no reason that is possible to see.

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

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

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

Apple don’t monitor these discussions. So, I got in touch with Apple-care. They are now actively working on the issue. Expect it to be resolved in an iOS update. I’ll post progress reports.

Right now Apple are working on it.

Same here so I separately downloaded the Yahoo app and I can get them there

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

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.

This is indeed an infuriating problem which DOES occur when using iCloud email too. Since they don’t want to fix it, it’s almost as if Apple would rather you use another email app instead of their own….

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.