Q: iOS5 Mail crashing

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

Yes, I read about this while researching it prior to setting up iCloud. It is the reason I don't use Photo Stream.

Iphone 4s had many mail crashes.  My wife determined this was only when mail from her Twitter account was in her inbox.

After deleting Twitter mail from inbox (using different email client/machine/webmail) crash stopped.

Time to disable Twitter messages, until Apple pulls their head out!

Hope this help some folks landing here and reading the 10+ pages!

Cheers,

It just happened to me on iOS 5.0.1 while composing a longer email. I was foolish to think that I could switch to Safari to copy an URL that I wanted to include in the email, and upon switching back to mail, the email's entire content had disappeared. Worse even, mail saved this new "content" of the email as the draft on the server, so even on the server the email that I had spent over an hour to write had vanished.

I was running mail on my iPhone 3GS (32 GB), working with my iCloud account. No other app was running at the time I was going to the home screen to launch Safari. The System Log had this to say at around the same time:

22 Jan 2012 12:25:13 PM - SpringBoard [15] (Warning): Failed to snapshot Mail

I am seriously infuriated to find that this might be a known issue that simply hasn't been addressed for months.

As it stands right now, mail on iOS 5 simply is *not* usable for composing long emails, as silly as it sounds.

Cheers from London,

Stefan

God knows that the bloody problem is!!

I have reinstalled iOS5 3 times on my iphone 4 and tried to restore from itunes and icloud but each time it pushed a number of emails thru but then gets stuck in a loop.

I have even set up the phone as a new phone and lost everything in the hope that resolves it but no joy.

Even the reminders are not appearing in the notifications menu.

Thought it was an icloude problem so disabled that but still no joy...

Feel like going back to 4.3.5...!!!! SORT IT OUT APPLE...!

Isn't anyone from Apple Listning to us???? 

It's a shame that this is happening... my mail accounts won't push the emails thru unless they setup as pop/imap accounts and haven't done so for 2 days or so...

HOWEVER!!!!!

As I type this, guess what.... they have started to come thru...!

I have sent test ones from hotmail to gmail and back and they have worked instantly... obviously there is a huge problem somewhere with this new iOS5 but mine started randomly on Friday night and after 3 different restores it still didn't fix it and as you have said, resetting and replacing it has not worked... may downgrade to 4.3.5

I think I found the solution to this problem!

Anyway it worked for me!

Go to settings / general and then choose "spotlight search"

Remove mail and voila! It's fixed :)

Just did what you suggested & still froze, any other ideas??

You have to reboot after doing this. Plz try.

Could this be the issue responsible for the "phantom usage time" and high battery drainage? !

Still no good even after reboot. Try to fwd email to(40)recipients & halfway thru, it took me straight out of gmail application & back to icon menu. I'm thinking there could be insufficient memory with the iPhone, what do u think??

I can confirm as well that removing spotlight searching of email did not improve the situation.  I also rebooted the phone and the crashes occur after as well.

I have also noticed that the mail app can be open with no interaction (not writing or reading an email -- like being in the list of messages in the inbox of my .mac account) and the app will crash and I'm back to the home screen.  This I have seen more than once and makes me think there could be a timing issue with something else happening in the background that may affect you when you're writing emails, but it may just crash on it's own as well.

Has anyone else noticed this?

Curiously, that doesn't happens with me.

But I do have a long list of mobilemail crashes list in the "Diagnostics & Usage"...and high usage time! 

Same issue for me:  was happening on my previous iPhone 4running ios5 which was replaced 3 weeks ago for a different issue, and the new one crashes the same way.  Lost several long emails I was composing in an urgent business situation and had to switch to my laptop.  Would love a solution, very frustrating....

I removed Spotlight search and just typed a long test email successfully:  keeping my fingers crossed this fix holds....