This message has not been downloaded from the server.

Plagued with this more and more on my iPad and iPhone. It may finally be time to break off Apple/IOS loyalty and flip to Samsung

I have the same issue on my iPad, which uses Apples own email app. I have two fixes.

1. On the iPad, select Reply and the message magically appears. It remains visible even after cancelling the reply.
2. On my iPhone, I use the Outlook email app. In this, I never get ‘not downloaded’.

I think this is appalling behaviour from Apple because in an increasingly digital world we receive many things (event passes, QR codes for parking, flight details) be email that we simply present on the device at the point we need to; check-in, or a concert gate etc. And almost all of these will be booked well in advance.

My own example is that I have booked a holiday to celebrate my wife’s birthday and received QR codes for the car park and the hotel reservation, four events, a restaurant booking and a link to prepay for a gluten free cake three days before we arrive (my wife is coeliac). I have just been to check everything, which I booked in January 2024, and on my iPad “message not downloaded”. I checked my phone…there they are! On the iPad, I clicked Reply and the whole message appeared, codes, QRs and the necessary link. I cancelled the Reply and the email contents remained on screen so I can use the link to pay for the cake. I then went through all the other emails and had to Reply to see them all too.

It must be date-related, but that is very poor from Apple.

Have discovered that if you reply to the email that won’t open from server you can read it.

And here we are on iOS 17.4 and this issue is as bad as ever. This has now been an issue for me since upgrading from 12 Pro Max to the 15 Pro Max.

I’ve tried everything and can’t fix it either. I downloaded the Yahoo app and it works on the Yahoo app but then it’s a stand alone app and not part of my overall Mail experience on my iPhone.

I have the same problems. Hope it will be sorted.

I have read the issues regarding messages not downloading from server. Has to be an Apple issue. Please fix it. This is April 17, 2024 and it appears still has not been addressed.

I have Apple iCloud storage, and I encounter the "can't be downloaded" issue daily! I'm using iOS 17, and it still persists.

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….

Having the same issue but with my gmail. Looked at this forum for answers. Did everything they mentioned nothing worked. Did it one more time and still nothing. Kept seeing this loading wheel next to my service provider. Tried to touch it to see the problem- nothing. Then the lower screen message that’s says “checking for mail…” touched that and apparently because I had changed my password recently. It wanted me to log back in with the new password for that account in settings. Then all of a sudden my email is flooded with 100+ missed emails and all the ones that weren’t loading. Now are finally loaded. Needless to say it might not work for all users but it worked for me. Irritated but glad I fixed my own issue and a little disappointed that even the issue or customer support hasn’t resolved this.

Is there a fix to this? This has been an issue for YEARS. If the message does not download in the specified amount of time, it just stops trying and the “this message has not been downloaded” screen displays. There should be way to keep the app downloading, or force download the email. Extremely frustrating when I check my email on my phone and it won’t show up, and then I have to go to my desktop and it’s visible to view and respond, no problem. This has been an issue for as long as I can remember - internet speeds vary, the app should not just time out if the top speeds are not achieved right away. Worse than when we had dial up!

This happens to me all too often when there is an attachment! It’s unacceptable. Sometimes it will open on either the Apple iPad or the Apple iPhone but not both! Def an Apple issue and only started about a year ago for me.

I fixed it. !!!

too many emails

i went to yahoo mail

searched for Macys

press search

then edit

then either delete one at a time or for fast action lightly touch top left of screen ren ringer down to bottom and hold it there and all of the Macy ads I had do previously deleted were highlighter

press delete

Using this technique with other others I deleted well over 1000 emails and not yahoo works fine on my iphone

this worked!!

Too many emails you must delete

went to yahoo mail

searched for Macys

press search

then edit

then either delete one at a time or for fast action lightly touch top left of screen ren ringer down to bottom and hold it there and all of the Macy ads I had do previously deleted were highlighter

press delete

Using this technique with other others I deleted well over 1000 emails and not yahoo works fine on my iphone

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This worked too many emails saved

went to yahoo mail

searched for Macys

press search

then edit

then either delete one at a time or for fast action lightly touch top left of screen ren ringer down to bottom and hold it there and all of the Macy ads I had do previously deleted were highlighter

press delete

Using this technique with other others I deleted well over 1000 emails and not yahoo works fine on my iphone

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Reply