"Some Results May Not Appear" Error in Mail after iOS 18 update

Same issue here since updating ‐ extremely frustrating!! Now the app feels completely useless; I’ve had issues with searching for emails using the Mail app prior to update, but now this is next level problematic!

I lost all mail last week for one of of my email account. It was a Gmail account so I thought Gmail issue but now I wonder. Today I received an email from a seller I bought from about August this year. I wanted to compare prices. This email could not be located and I got the same “some results”. I thought Gmail again until I found this thread. What is going on?????

I entered this a few days ago then I remembered another post that I can’t find today. I had my issues when it told me some emails were not read. I couldn’t find the unread one so I highlighted all and noticed they were all unread even though I was told only one was unread. I don’t remember it I clicked read but after this all my emails disappeared. Google claimed I had a virus email and they could not retrieve the missing emails

My iPhone is on the current system and is locked, charging and connected to my home WiFi all night, every night, as I plug it in next to the bed.

But a search for emails always produces very limited results, to the extent that if I am out, or in a meeting, i will make excuses about 'not having filed my mails properly'. How embarrassing.

When will Apple fix this longstanding problem?

(Please don't tell me to 're-start my phone, upgrade the OS, or report this on the Apple support site' as I've done all this, many, many times over the last few years. It seems to me that giving that kind of advice is just a cheap way for some people to increase their Support Points score without having to use their brain...)

It’s ridiculous I don’t know if apple even reads this so it’s useless. I had files disappear for no reason and all my play list disappeared! They want you to use Apple Music! I paid for all my songs and I want them where I want them! We have become dependent on apple and that’s bad.

i agree! I’m fighting with Origin over my elec where I communicated to take extra money out as direct debit and I can’t get it up !! This is major and needs to be sorted I need those emails a proof of conversation asap!

who do we complain too

Just hoping to add to the clamor that eventually creates a fix. This started with 18 and I have since updated to 18.2, which gave me a lot of useless AI functions and random buttons that I don't need, but did not restore my ability to, you know, SEARCH MY EMAIL. I use Apple mail for work and it is really impacting my ability to do my job on the road. If it keeps up, it might be time to give up on Apple products altogether.

I just started having this problem a few days ago. It’s awful. I am a PC user with an iPhone and the weirdest thing is my Gmail search function is equally screwed up.

Does any one have a solution?

has any one called Apple or gone to the Genius Bar?

I’m not a techie. I don’t know what to do.

I’ve had this ever since the last IOS update amongst other issues, but this one is the worst. I keep wanting to look up emails my travel agent has sent, however the message keeps coming up.

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I am discussing this with Apple now. As of this morning, I have emails from yesterday that say the eye haven’t been downloaded to the server. Started discussing it and suddenly my emails were working and I was able to see emails from months ago that weren’t showing up before. As usual, the problem was my phone, the amount of memory I have, my network connection, my charger, everything but the change Apple made. Even though this has never been an issue in the past the message is “it takes time to swap over emails when you upgrade the operating system especially when there are a lot to download”. I told him the problem has occurred for months and he said he would look into it really quick. It sounded like Apple wasn’t aware of the problem at all so I asked if they really haven’t been monitoring these forums and he said that they are aware of the reports and it is being investigated. I don’t have high hopes and about to abandon ship with everyone else that’s leaving. This is beyond ridiculous. I’ll update y’all as soon as I can.

Wow, I replied twice here asking Apple for accountability and they deleted it twice.

So, I’ll leave it up to the global community to draw the dots on their lack of reply here and blind mission to satisfy users in coffee shops posting selfies and not the global community that use these things as a business device.

For me, as a long term user, manager of 4 companies and apple developer, this is the absolute final straw.

The continuous battle against autocorrect deciding what I really mean and being blocked from which character of text I actually want to edit, along with the ridiculous over complication of basic apps shows that Apple doesn’t respect my choices or needs and is only bent on supporting vain instagram selfie posters.

I wanted to upvote your comment, but now Apple is putting a limit on how many up votes I have! I've only clicked up vote on five or six items on this thread. I only get five or six votes an hour???. What are they talking about? this is beyond ridiculous. I have the same problem with everybody else and I'm not even allowed to upload things on the thread. Apple is gonna force me to make my own comment and then not answer -ridiculous

It's always disappointing to bump into a problem and find that users reported it months ago. I am piling on to hopefully escalate the issue. Referencing past emails is a daily use case. Apple is not storing my email on their server, so why are they limiting my downloads? I don't understand how this makes sense. I'll be switching to Outlook ASAP. "Can you go into my office and search my mail?" is not something I should ever need to ask a colleague.

Finding this thread gave me a second of hope… until I opened it to see all of us asking the same thing: APPLE! WHY?!

This day and age, our world RELIES on technology. Email is essential to perform daily tasks. Searching for previous email discussions is detrimental for many of our employers. This is just simply disgusting that Apple has not addressed this. Apple, DO BETTER! 🤦🏻‍♀️