Gmail not syncing after iOS 18.2 update on iPhone 14 Pro

low power mode, which YOU turn on and off, does not affect email. So if it is on, turn it off.

Here is Apple’s advice for troubleshooting email issues→If you can’t send or receive emails on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

I would add to that if you have a 3rd party VPN installed, even if you are not using it, delete the VPN profile in Settings/General/VPN & Device Management/VPN. Don't just turn it off; delete the profile. If that fixes it, you can try reinstalling VPN.

Superduperappleguy wrote:

I got mine to work by switching the mail categories to list view instead of category view.

To add to superduperappleguy’s suggestion, doing list view worked but only once I did it to each mail account’s inbox individually. Doing list view on “all inboxes” didn’t change anything.

switching to List on iphone made ipad mail appear “correctly.”

thanks

18.2 both devices.

went to get my free bbq sando with email.

email showed on ipad.

when i got there and opened my iphone to Mail, no coupon email!!!

came home. now i noticed my iPHONE Mail — the only one that has this new “Primary” thing — i has figured it was a new label for ALL INBOXES. so i noticed, wow, the mail *showing* in the iphone was quite a bit different.I had never noticed. WOW.

Came to this thread. On the iPhone using the upper right 3 dots, I switched it to List. Now Primary has gone/switched.

And the iPhone now looks like and the same mail messages as the iPad.

For me, that is all I did. No wifi or any other changes, no restarts.

ymmv

My emails were not downloading to my Gmail account after I updated my iPhone 13 to iOS 18.2. I disabled my VPN and it is now functioning normally.

That last bit on deleting the VPN profile fixed the problem for me. 👍🏼 Thanks!

I’m on iPhone 15 Pro, iOS 18.2, Mozilla VPN.

I had the same issues on both of my new iPhone and iPad, I went into Setup/App/Mail/Account, deleted Gmail account then added Gmail account. It worked for me.

I had the same problem. After the iOS 18.2 update with my Gmail not syncing to my iPhone mail app. Here’s how I was able to fix it. Open your Gmail app. at the top There’s a banner with several options primary will be highlighted in blue tap it, and it will change to all mail. That fixed my problem and Gmail came into my iPhone Mail app. Hope this helps everyone.

I've been seeing this issue since the 18.2 update and it appears to be related to some kind of rate limiting - in my case the problem is specific to gmail, to whom I assume some requests are getting blocked after a number of connections.

A quick workaround to get mails moving again is to switch IP address, by dropping off wifi and falling back to mobile data, or using a VPN (if you have one).

Not a long term solution but maybe enough to prevent me from switching to outlook while I wait for Apple to fix this.

I got mine to work by switching the mail categories to list view instead of category view.

Have you changed your gmail password recently, or added 2 factor authentication?

This worked for me too: switch off WiFi, fetch mail, turn on WiFi again. Works now. 😀

I've also been noticing this issue on multiple devices these past 2 weeks.

Using a VPN Immediately got it syncing again! Thank you!

I am having the same issue with my iPhone 15 as well. It seems though if the battery is in low power mode setting, it just won’t fetch incoming emails.