Q: Push email does not work (iCloud)

Seems to me like there's some kind of problem in iOS 5 that is causing notifications to not be received correctly, or at least erratically - I've noticed that sometimes they come through in a timely manner, sometimes I get notified hours later, other times I don't get notified at all and have to actually open Mail, or Facebook, or Skype, or others to see what messages are sitting there.

In my experience, Apple typically does not comment on the scheduling of bug fixes, etc.  Rather we'll just see an update that corrects it one day when it is released.  The only workaround that I've found in the meantime that's even half-reliable is to identify your most important apps that you need notifications for and try to keep them open in the background as much as possible.  I've noticed that apps do receive notifications somewhat more reliably if they are running in the background, though the behavior is still erratic.

Johndh1501

That is the best solution so far. Tried it and seems to work. Why can't Apple provide that kind of support? My impression is that iCloud is a massive fail. Great concept, poor execution! Steve (RIP) would be royally ******! Someone would be fired!

Thanks Johndh1501 this has worked for me as a stop gap till Apple sort out whatever the issue appears to be.  Kudos.

Also same problem.  I run imac desktop, iphone, ipad.  First noticed that when I delete emails from desktop they do not go away from iphone or ipad.  Then when I go to delete them from iphone it says unable to move to trash.

This was NEVER a problem with mobile me.  I have been with it long enough to still have a .mac address!

Succus, I say.  Fix this mother, please!

I confirm email is not pushing regularly also to me... Annoying!

I'm writing only to tell you that to re-enable push when it goes away you only need to send an email to yourself from the Mail App on the iphone.

It's more comfortable than doing all that reboot and deactivation stuff.

Hope this can help also you and that, in the meantime, Apple would fix this important (for my work it is!) bug.

After 2 weeks we haven't notice from Apple. I'm very sad.

I can't imagine this has gone unnoticed.  Although I am still surprised that there is very little mention of it on the various blogs.

C'mon Apple sort it out soon!  I've moved completely from Google services (except Google Reader) to iCloud but lack of push has me thinking about turning Gmail back on

The annoying thing for me is that Mobileme push worked great so i know it can be done

so, am i the only one who passed from an intermittent working push to a total "shut down" of the service in the last days? Since two days, i can't get my mail pushed on the iphone. Restart and other things like that have no effect so i switched to the 15 minutes check. Veeeeeeeeery nice.

Il seems that Apple hasn't ablitiy to resovle this probleme utill now. I will change the telephone!

That's a tad on the extreme side...

You know they will fix it.

How do we know they will fix it. Apple has not acknowledged it, have they??

I can't think of a time when an issue, especially one that is handicapping a flagship service, was ignored and a fix not found.

It's frustrating the **** out of me, but patience is a virtue.

cflowers81 wrote:

 

I can't think of a time when an issue, especially one that is handicapping a flagship service, was ignored and a fix not found.

 

It's frustrating the **** out of me, but patience is a virtue.

Which is why I've stopped paying too much attention to this thread. Once I realized that all of the "fixes" being mentioned really are just guess work and that my problem is intermittent, I decided that I would simply wait it out. If you haven't gotten an email in a while (you determine what that interval is) is it really that hard to open email which forces a fetch?

And also, fetch is working. So if you really need to be alerted that a new email has arrived, just turn off push and set fetch to 15 min until they fix this! It's not like 'the email' is not working!