Yahoo emails randomly disappearing in iPad

Have we decided whether this is an Apple ipad problem or a Yahoo problem yet?

This definitely is an iOS problem, apple has to fix this. I wish posters to this thread can include their iOS version so we can see if there is a corrollation with the iOS version.

Also, the temporary workaround is to use mail.yahoo.com, yahoo's iOS web interface, which works very well and you can move your emails to different mailboxes without them disappearing.

I only started having the problem after upgrading to ios5 - it worked all well for me with ios3 and ios4, for what its worth... And no issues with my android device either.

Use this link everyone, to tell apple abut the issue. They don't monitor these forums....

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Just to add my experience. I have an iPhone 4 which I've had for over a year and an iPad 2 which I was given for Christmas. Both are operating iOS 5.0.1.

I've noticed emails disappearing from my yahoo mail on my iPad but thought I must have filed them in the wrong folders and put it down to user error. However this morning I filed a load of emails ( none of mine are travel related by the way, mostly filing into EBay, Purchases and Campaign folders). This afternoon I went into the Campaign folder to look at an attachment and as one of the other contributors said, I saw the emails for a nano second, then the update process occurred and they were gone. That's not entirely true because one of the six I transferred was there but not all the replies, just the original email. All the other separate emails and their replies had gone.

What I've now discovered, and here's where it gets more weird, is that when I check the folders on my iPhone the emails are all present and correct!! They both have the same operating system and they synch over my wireless network and they are gone on the iPad and there on my iPhone! Is this crazy or what?!

I will be reporting this to Apple as suggested and as you all advise, not putting anything into folders via my iPad. V frustrating.

Rosi

And if you logon to Yahoo mail on the web, are the emails still there or are they gone?

They are still there applefrog. Luckily. But that seems even more weird - you move them on ipad and they disappear but appear in the moved locations correctly on iphone and via yahoo on the web.

I am having similar issues. I believe I have solved the problem. My email were randomly disappearing from my iPad and iPhone. This is definitely a bug in the IOS sofware. I have deleted my Yahoo account from both iPhone and IPad and recreated them differently. Dont's use the default YAHOO when creating an account, instead choose OTHER and enter the data manually. Create the account as a POP not a IMAP otherwise you will have issues as before. The default YAHOO account that comes with the devices is IMAP.

On Device Choose:

Settings

Mail, Contacts, Calendars

Add Account

Other

Add Mail Account

Enter data and Choose Next

Select POP

Enter Incoming server : pop.mail.yahoo.com and Outgoing Server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com

Choose save and you are good to go.

Good to know but useless if you're using folders to organize your mail. I have not upgraded ipad iOS 5, yet see this. Guess best tip so far is make your changes on mail.yahoo.com using a PC.

Had the same problem, it was fixed by changing my "days to sync" in settings, under mail,contacts,etc, then choose your email account, change the mail days to sync, try selecting 'no limt'... Make sure your "emails to show" limit is high enough as well.

Hope this helps...

I fixed this for a family member.

She had a Mac, iphone 3GS ios 3.x, and fairly new ipad. ATT/Yahoo email.

iphone and ipad mail were configured using IMAP, Mac was using POP to get mail.

Mac was configured to check for mail every 15 mins and delete mail from server. iphone and ipad would show some emails briefly in the inbox, then mac would suck them down and delete them, then the IMAP clients would "sync" and mails would disappear from inboxes. (just my theory -- have no experience with IMAP)

Fix was to get mac to leave mail on server. This option is available in mac mail settings when you use POP. Mac was on most recent OS version.

This problem showed up with the purchase of the ipad, so blame was unfairly pointed at the ipad. Looks like it was just a coincidence. An OS upgrade on the mac may have changed the mail settings.

I have a new 4S and I can't find an option to configure mail for POP. My preferred configuration for a desktop-centric user would be to configure the mac to delete from server and have the other mobile devices use POP and leave mail on server.

At any rate the problem seems to be fixed for now.

I'm pretty sure this was a problem on Yahoo's end and they fixed it. A few months back a "Recovered Mail" folder showed up on my account with all the mail that went missing over the 6 month period this occured during (from around August 2011 to about Jan 2012). Since then I haven't noticed any missing mail.

I still use Mozilla Thunderbird IMAP to sync and backup my Yahoo mail periodically on my PC just in case, but so far all mail I move to folders has stayed there.

Yes, That lost emails folder appeared in my Yahoo as well. Mystery solved.

It was a Yahoo problem with Apple and not vice versa!