Two inboxes for my Gmail account in iPhone mail

Me & my wife have the same problem.

I've looked all over the Internet and have not found anyone with the problem. It's driving me nuts.

I've tried a lot of things: unisintalling the account and reinstalling it on my device just created another duplicate! I tried many things but no solution so far.

I even went to the local Apple Store and they did not have any reports of this situation. You are the first person I find with it.

Let's wait and see. Meanwhile it's driving me nuts.

All my iPhone friends and me have also the same problem. You can try to add the gmail account as exchange with m.google.com. But I think apple should fix this bug...

I have the same problem!

Are you also using these email addys as your iCloud account, rather than a me.com account?

If so, that could explain it, because it automatically creates an inbox for your iCloud associated account.

Having a simular problem here. It started out with my Mail account. Whenever i got a new message, Mail would count it double, because the new email would be in both gmail's inbox as in all mail. I found that the fix for this was to uncheck 'All Mail' for IMAP in the labels tab from Gmails settings.

However, after doing this, the all mail folder on my iphone changed into an alternate inbox, just as you discribed.

So far, I haven't found a fix for this yet, other than checking the 'All Mail' box in gmails settings.

So it's the one or the other.. it's driving me nuts!

I had the same issue.

I eventually fixed it by setting up my email from scratch, after removing it from my IOS device, but this time set it up using "Other" rather then "Gmail". I used the details from http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78799 (if this link does not appear in English, try searching for IMAP settings in GMail's help). After set-up I had to match sent, drafts and deleted folders with the ones on the server. I also had to close e-mail and settings apps, start e-mail, sync all, then go to settings again in order for the IMAP folders to appear in the advanced settings for matching.

Note, using IMAP like this may require an update of your GMail settings on how to delete vs. archive mail when using IMAP, or you may end up never deleting e-mail unintentionally.

Have the same issue, even after upgrading to iOS 5.0.1.

So far it's only an annoyance. But considering that Apple allows iMessages to disappear without acknowledging it being an issue, I no longer trust Apples QA department. And will need to keep a close eye on my mails.

I have the same problem on my iphone 4s too.

So far the solution is that Panthorette said.

i use my gmail account as icloud/itunes account.

i'm hoping in a patch next update.

I have the same problem, but with icloud and my regular email with mac. The emails are going to 2 different maliboxes. I looked everywhere, compared settings with other iphone, but so far, no luck...

Panthorete's answer IS the solution for this issue, while Apple solves it.

The problem is when you use the preconfigured GMail settings. Just configure it manually as pointed by Panthorete.

I'm also facing the same problem on iPhone 4S iOS 5.0.1.

Aside from the double inboxes, I also can't get to read mails. Whenever I touch the mail I want to read, immediately the "forward" screen pops-up. So I can't open any of the attachments etc.

I don't have this "auto-forward" issue on yahoo or me.com accounts but only on gmail. I also don't have it on my iPad.

Applied the fix Panthorette gave and the problem got solved. But this time it seems iPhone can't sync calendars from Google. No calendars option appeared in the account settings.