Q: iOS5 Mail crashing

Only started noticing this issue the last few weeks. pretty annoying. havent noticed some of the more severe issues. such as composing long emails but often dont know i have new email until i'm on my computer or someone tell me that i do. same issue withg my wifes ip4s as well. please  fix this for us. first iphone dont want it to be my last because i really like the thing.

Just had a crash today on iPad 1 after composing a long email.  Never happened before and won't happen again because I won't use this thing for such purposes or recommend it after reading this thread.  Major glitch which needs a fix.  Almost threw this thing out the door after losing an hour of work.

Maybe this has already been suggested, I didn't read all 10 pages...

I have the same issue with drafts hanging and being unable to send or cancel. Quit mail, reopen and its the same. This morning I quit mail AND deleted it from the multitask bar. Reopened and was able to at least hit the cancel button and get back to my email list. Mail worked fine after, although I didn't try the drafts again.

Not fixed but at least I can move on and wait for bug fix.

iPhone 4. iOS 5.0.1. Mail app crashes on a regular basis. Never while composing an email, only when opening the app. Looks like the app "crashes" in the background since I don't get any email notifications. When I launch the app, it's unresponsive for approx. 5 seconds and then it closes. Re-open and it works fine.

I've had my iPhone replaced 3 times, having the exact same issue.

Same problem here! only on iphone 4s. every time i open mail, it freezes for anywhere between 10-30 secs. if i wait, it will either load forever, and/or crash. if i choose to close, either by closing the app/ or also on multitasking , , i get a blank screen, then it crashes. when i reopen, all seems well. Then, out of the blue, it will freeze up again for no reason and the same thing happens. never lost content, and never had any problems working with android/ email signatures. not yet a solution! since 5.0 this has been happening! anyone else try anything??

3 months and 10 thread pages later i see no solution and only user speculation. It's a shame.

They make it sound like it's MY problem........non stop crashes everyday on both iPhone and iPad with the latest OS.....now they want me to purge all my mail accounts and re-enter them one at a time and keep testing to try to isolate the problem.....I am also using multiple ISPs....so it's not any particular company......this is ridiculous.....I've also swapped out phones from the Apple store and that's not the problem either.....I cannot depend on using my mail app as it can crash at any given time when I'm in the middle of composing......I keep copying the content as I go along in case I lose all that I wrote at that moment.....frustrating.  It's gotta be an update that would fix this problem, but they just won't acknowledge the problem.

It certainly is BS.  I have a new phone as well and mine still does the same thing.  Be real nice if Apple would man up and at least put out something to give everyone an idea of where they are on this.

Same here. Constant crashes with iPhone(s) and iPad(s). Not something I would expect from Apple. How long do we have to live with this nuicance?

The saga continues...

I did reset all the accounts, no help...the crash occurs with all of them...even one at a time. so no Virginia, that ain't the answer....SO what should we do...lets return our phones to the CARRIERS and demand a refund...maybe when ATT, Verizon, and Sprint plus the folks oversees scream...maybe THEN Apple would get off the stick...I'm sure they are busy getting ready to peave the customer base by bringing out the new Ipad afew weeks after Christmas.

This sounds exactly the same as the issue I'm having, except mine is the iphone 4 not 4s. I find that closing the app down and then closing it in the multitask bar is the quickest way to get my mail open again, although I do still have to wait for several seconds after I've closed the app in the multitask.

Has anyone sent feedback to Apple on this, and maybe even copied them in on this thread? Usually Apple are on the ball but they've been pretty poor at picking up on this imo.

On one of my visits to the Genius Bar to address this issue, the woman who assisted me played with the phone for a few minutes until she was able to experience the problem first-hand, and she said that she was going to write a letter to Apple HQ to tell them about the issue. I also had my phone set to automatically send diagnostic info to Apple for the entire month that I was experiencing this, which means that they got roughly 600 crash notifications (~20 crashes per day for ~30 days) from my phone alone. However, it sounds like the thing that was causing my crashes was not resposible for all of the crash issues that I've been reading about on this thread.

Making sure your phone is set to send diagnostic info to Apple is probably one of the best things you can do to make sure Apple is aware of these issues.

I've just noticed this problem this morning for the first time. I've had ios5 on my 3Gs since the week the OS was released. I don't suppose everyone experiencing this problem has Google accounts? Could be something there?

This started happening to me in the early hours of today and now the emails are stuck in "downloading"mode no matter how many times i shutdown and restart my phone.

I can access the emails via normal means - hotmail/messenger/gmail app but not thru the ios5 one.

Really getting annoyed with it...

anyone got a solution/idea why this is happening?

I agree with you totally...I use gmail & when forwarding email to say 40 or 50 of my recipients, it always ceases half way thru then I have to do it all over again. Been to Genius Bar 6times & had the phone replaced twice since Nov'11 & still crashed. Tried everything incl restore, rest all settings & reset mail setting doesn't help either. Apple won't take responsibility or take ownership on this issue. On one visit to the Genius Bar, this chap said to me that I don't enough memory on my phone to do the work, so I said to him I have a old Window desktop at home that has less memory than my iPhone & it works fine. Telephone support just tells me to try this & that sending me links. Also the other day I've received SMS notification while I was doing mail & it froze on me as well.

I've been loyal to Apple for many years, having own iphone3G, iPod, iMac27" & iPad. I hate to abandon ship now so Apple better fix this issue & fast.

By the way have anyone notice that you can't delet photos in the "Photo Stream" folder??