Q: Push email does not work (iCloud)

Well I hope they fix it.  I noticed something new. As long as I had the apps that need to receive pushes running in background, I would get them.  But in the last week, sometimes mail didn't come in till much later. Not sure if it was really mail problems or what.

Well, dnair's solution only works occasionally. Apple really jacked up the push this time.

Unfortunately, my 'fix' is only working intermittently now.  It seemed great for a few days but today it went about two hours before a bunch of messages came in...until I opened the Mail app.  Extremely frustrating when I paid for a MobileMe membership which is still good until June...only there's no going back after moving to iCloud. Really annoying.

There's no bug or similar. Email push notifications for iPhone only work while the Mail app is running in the background. The same as in Mac OS X, you must have the app running for email to push to your device. It's kind of annoying, but that's how it works.

I hope this helps!

What a crock of ****. It's a bug. It's confirmed fixed in 5.0.1.

And if it ain't a bug.

Bye bye iCloud. Welcome back Gmail which works without mail app open.

The push does not always work with the app open either.

gsuarez, you are incorrect. This is a confirmed bug.

Well, it works for me :) sorry it doesn't for you, you might be right and it's a bug. If it can push always with 5.0.1, then even better!

gsuarez, it does appear to be a bug. when mine works (which I have just discovered, is 99% of the time during the day) it works well with the mail app open OR closed (not running in the background either). I may have found something though, MOST of the time it doesn't work seem to be overnight. I originally thought it was a timeout or something killing the listener, but I think it might have something to do with me using the mail app on my MacBook pro. seems the nights I'm on my MacBook at home, sending/receiving mail through the mail app, I wake up and have no mails pushed. Not until I manually open the mail app and receive mail does it "kick" back in. Again, not sure if this is part of the issue, but I have noticed that recently.

iphone 4s, upgraded from 3gs. mobileMe transfer to iCloud.

Don't beat your brain trying to find a reason folks, you'll just go mad and find yourself making constant corrections to your previous posts.

Save yourself and just wait for 5.0.1

So has anyone been able to confirm yet whether today's bug release fixes this issue? It isn't listed in the talking points, which doesn't make me very hopeful...

Yes, push works perfectly

:-)

Edit:

Thank you Apple

I can 100% confirm that 5.0.1 fixed this issue for me.  Sent a test email without the mail app open in background and it came through virtually instantly on my iPhone 4S.

Thank you Apple.

I can confirm either: 5.0.1 fixed this issue both on my iphone 4s and Ipad 1.

Well I dloaded the update that went out. I noticed 3 things.

1) pushed mail to iPhone works. Mail from gmail that is pushed. Comes in under 5 seconds. Pushed mail from my me.com takes anywhere from 5-15seconds. Without the mail app being opened in background.

2). I noticed that if I swip to unlock my phone, the mail app is automatically launched to read the email. Even if I didnt slide the envelope to open it on my lock screen. So it's auto loaded the mail app.

*update, ignore below.  I waited around 5mins and the update was pushed to the iphone. and unlike the mail app, the iCal app didn't open when I swiped my iphone to unlock.*

3) Unless I didn't wait long enough, Pushed update to my calendar on my iPhone still will not come in unless I have the iCal app loaded. So there's something still wrong. Once I opened iCal on the iPhone, the date update came in. Btw, cal update from my PI worked fine still with the iCal closed. So it's just updates coming from the iCloud.

I can confirm that, so far, all is well on an iPhone 4 with iOS 5.0.1.

Push works if the mail app is running or not. Perfect Timing!