Remind Me folder in Mail is empty despite showing 2 unresolved reminders

I just wanted to let you know you are not alone. I have been wondering in my head who on earth developed this feature and didn't test the scenario you describe above. The QA person must have been out sick that day. I now have 4 ghost reminders out there that I will never find. thank you for the tip on at least clearing the reminder.

It seems Apple has never heard of "Inbox Zero" in its life. Reminders are absolutely useless like this.

I find it concerning that Apple overlooked such a critical issue. I'm genuinely hoping for a solution to retrieve the messages marked as 'Remind Me,' as the badge number updates, but my Remind Me box remains mysteriously empty. My workflow involves maintaining an inbox zero approach, where everything swiftly moves to the archive, and I use flags to indicate the importance of an email. It's imperative for Apple to address and patch this oversight as soon as possible!

I had the same annoying issue. I went to my mailboxes on iPhone and hit the Edit button in the upper right corner. The next screen showed a checkmark by each mailbox that was visible. I unchecked Remind Me then hit Done. This hid it from my mailboxes. Then I repeated the process to recheck Remind me. Remind me then showed in mailboxes again, but was cleared.

I have the same issue. Badge Shows >1 but no email in that mailbox.

It would be great to be able to search for "all mails that have an active reminder". That would help.

YES! This worked, whereas highlighting every mailbox and using the Clear Reminder suggestion above did not work for me. Apple should remove this feature until they get it working if an email is moved out of the Inbox. I don't know how you ever came up with that fix, but I'm very appreciative.

Without giving a "step by step" procedure, it's possible to find involved mail in a few steps using Terminal

• give full disk access to Terminal in privacy settings
• find message-id that are in "remind me" using the following :

more ~/Library/Mail/V10/MailData/EMUbiquitouslyPersistedDictionary-com.apple.mail.remindMe.plist

• grab message-id enclosed in <string></string>
• run a grep command with each message-id to find mail files :

find ~/Library/Mail/V10/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep "put the message-id here"


• from the output open files ending with .emlx extensions (you can use more)
• from there, you can get the Subject from headers and search for that subject in Mail
• you'll be able to clear the reminder

Some notes :

• Mail is sadly unable to search by message-id, that's why I suggest using the Subject
• entries in EMUbiquitouslyPersistedDictionary file will be removed when "remind me" flag will be cleared

QA here (not for Apple) and also very disappointed. But…I found a fix for the phantom remind me issue.

Good to the Edit button, disable remind me showing, close out, then reenable it if you like. Got rid of mine at least. 😮‍💨

Just coming across this thread as I'm having a similar problem on my Mac. It's not quite the same problem because I didn't move any of my 'Remind Me' emails outside of my Inbox. There are several emails right in my inbox that I set to 'Remind Me' but they don't show up in the Remind Me folder. Frustrating.

Hey,

This feature is designed to work in a different way. It's for the people who have many emails in their inbox (as opposed to the people keeping the "zero inbox" rule). See Apple's notes on the subject.

I'd personally like it to work also in such a way that it'll remind me even when I move the email let's say to Archive folder, but it doesn't work that way. It creates the problem mentioned here in this thread, so I'd avoid using it that way (!)

The best way to get reminded about an email is to drag that email onto the Reminders' icon in the Dock and release when it appears in the Reminders' window.

Update to my previous post. Sorry, I am afraid I had a premature celebration. Although it did clear the Remind me mailbox initially, that annoying unresolved notification is back. Guess I will just have to live with it.

After all these years, this is the issue that made me switch away from Apple Mail. I now have emails in the "Remind Me" folder and I have no idea what they are because the folder is empty and Mail isn't going to actually remind me. What an oversight on Apple's part!

I have exactly the same issue. And I confirm the stupid way it works.

Managing this reminder feature is ridiculous...

Why setting this if it stays in the inbox to work ?

My only issue is that I have an email with a reminder set, but I do not remember in which folder I did put it... and I have lots and lors of folders...

I would have been so easy to be able to search that type of emails... but no. Not available.