Yahoo! email not pushing

I've been trying to fix this problem using all the same methods as all of you. Even set up a genius appointement today, and stumped the genius. Tried Sirogi's solution--problem solved. Delete all unneeded emails from mid-Sept, move the others to different folders, and mail should start working. Let's just hope it keeps working!!! 😀

Good Info...helps me understand my issues.

Thanks.

For me push of Yahoo mail with IOS 5 only happens when I do not have the screen locked. With IOS 4, the phone was readily pushed Yahoo mail within a minute of it appearing on the yahoo server.

So has Apple degraded Yahoo Mail to more of a fetch application?

I do have Yahoo Mail set to "Push" in the iphone control panel.

I got it to work (sorry - don't have time to read through all the posts). You need to login to Yahoo mail from your desktop computer. Login (I needed to type a captcha-type code).

There are two verification security questions (like your pet's name, etc). You need to answer the two questions (if you already have them, you simply need to click "save without changes". I made sure I was using Yahoo Classic for both accounts I was having trouble with. This is what the "verification" message means.

Once your email is working correctly on your desktop, put the correct information into your iphone under settings > mail.

For some reason, this verification step didn't work unless I went to yahoo on my desktop.

My two cents:

Yahoo clearly didn't test this before mandating the verification step - or just put a crappy pop up without thinking about writing a FAQ or something. Apple should have addressed this somewhere. This whole thing killed about 2 hours of my time. This is why upgrading to a new iphone is always a pain in the ***.

Hope that helps.

I have the same issue. I have to click the icon every time I want to check my mail. This is annoying, as I have missed a few meetings due to this. I keep waiting for an email notication and nothing.

Same thing here. After upgrading to iOs 5.0, my Yahoo stopped 'pushing' to the mail app. I could still access my emails, and retrieve my new mail if I 'manually' opened the mail app and 'fetched' my emails. So, as per Texhock 12's post, I did some test... and sure enough, if the mail app stays open, running in the background... emails are 'pushed' to the app! Voila.... annoying, because, like Texhock 12, I like to close all apps to conserve battery... so, no emails are pushed unless the app is 'running'. Hope Apple will have a fix for this real soon... it's annoying!

This is really weird....I was having issues with this for months even on my ipad2 prior to the IOS5 upgrade. But all of a sudden starting a few days ago, everything is fine! I have no idea why. Strange.

Hi Everyone,

I had an issue where none of my emails were 'pushing' to the phone (me.com, yahoo and exchange (and gmail which is another issue)). They stopped pushing after upgrading to ios5 on my ip4 and also my new ip4s. <note: I did not have the september email problem or the yahoo account verification issue> this was just the emails not pushing from any accounts. I lived with it for a few weeks as I did not have time to deal with it. Today I hit the forums to figure this out.... (Also, all my settings were set to "push" as they transfered over from my previous phone and stayed on my old ip4)

The only thing I tried from here was doing the hard reset (home key and power for 10 seconds). Now that I have done that all of my emails have started pushing (except google of course as I don't have it setup as exchange and the push feature is no longer available via IMAP).

twenty minutes in, the emails are still pushing. I'll report back if they suddenly stop. Also of note, I'm not keeping the mail app open. I have been sure to close it each time to test and see if they mails were still being pushed, and so far yes they are!

Thanks,
Mike

I had the problem of my emails not pushing unless my mail app stayed open in multitasking. I had done a hard reset a few times back when I updated to iOS 5, but haven't done it since. However, I did update to iOS 5.0.1 today and now my Yahoo e-mail is getting pushed even with the app closed. I know "E-mail Push" wasn't covered in the latest update, so I can't say it was the update or the rebooting that solved my issue. I wish I could give a more definitive solution. I would suggest trying a hard reset as Heppdj2 suggested or update your iOS to 5.0.1 as I did. Hopefully one will work.

I have to agree with Texhock12. Same thing. After iOs5, no more 'pushing'. Tried a restore to factory, tried a hard reset... nothing worked... emails would push only if the mail app stayed open in multitasking. However, as soon as I updated to iOs 5.0.1... emails started pushing to the phone again... so, who knows...

Agree with Texhock12 and FlyDH8 - I had same symptons. Upgrade to 5.0.1 and push has resumed.

Same here. Seems fixed with 5.0.1

Mine resumed push after installation of 5.0.1 but then stopped again. It resumed after I rebooted the iphone. So I don't think it was the installation of 5.0.1 but rather the rebooting when it was installed that did it. Do it seems it's an issue that needs to be corrected in the next update of the iOS

I had the same issue with my Yahoo account. I couldn't send or receive! Talked to an Apple Tech today and I turned OFF the WIFI and just used 3G. It works now! I normally use WIFI...not sure what the difference in the WIFI and 3G are but EVERYTHING is working.

I just got my 4s and I just started having issues with my Yahoo email pushing to my phone. I have tried all the trouble shooting that everyone else has suggested and nothing is working.

Just wondering if anyone else is having this issue still or if there are anything new I haven't tried yet.