1 Unsent Message...WHERE IS IT? Please help.

It's not in Settings! Here are some more detailed instructions:

1. From the home screen open the EMAIL APP (NOT settings) by touching the 'envelope' icon (as if you were going to check your email).

2. You should now be looking at your inbox, with the list of incoming emails. At the top left of the screen in the email app it says "< Mailboxes" in blue. Touch that to bring up the list of mailboxes (sent mail, inbox etc.)

3. Scroll down this list (possibiy quite a long way) until you find "Outbox".

4. Open the outbox and delete any message(s) with a red exclamation mark ⚠ next to it/them.

Hope this helps!

I had a pesky unsent message on my iPhone 5S iOS 7.1. No message appeared in my Outbox, but my phone always showed "1 unsent message." The instructions below solved the problem for me.

1. Go to your "Home" screen

2. Click on the "Settings" app icon

3. Switch "Airplane Mode" on

4. Go back to your "Home" screen

5. Click on the "Mail" app icon

6. Compose a message and send it (any message to any recipient will do)

7. Once the message has been sent exit "Mail" by going to your "Home" screen

8. Start "Mail" back up by clicking on the "Mail" app icon

9. The outbox folder should now appear, click on it to open it

10. Delete ALL messages out of your outbox folder by clicking Edit, selecting each message, and then pressing the "trash" button for all messages.

11. Go to your "Home" screen

12. Click on the "Settings" app icon

13. Switch "Airplane Mode" Off

14. Go to your "Home" screen

15. Open "Mail" back up, the message should now be gone.

This worked for me. If this doesn't work for you try deleting each mail account and then add the account back again until the unsent message notice goes away.

When it says "1 Unsent message" there is definately an outbox folder somewhere the email is in. It will either be a local one (most likely, since it had issues sending the email in the first place) or the one of your mail account. In order to edit/ resent that email just tap in the email body and it will re-open for editing.

Look at Outbox not inbox. I modified this step of the instruction. When I went to the outbox instead of deleting them I simply turned off airplane mode and sent them.. I didn't want to delete them I wanted to attempt to send them again. And it worked.

This didn't work for me :(. Still says 2 unsent messages. One other time this DID work for me, but this time it didn't. Any advice? Thank you!!!

After doing this will unsent message be in inbox? I sent 6 important messages to myself and deleted originals. I really want to receive those messages still. Thanks

No, that didn’t work. Besides, there’s something wrong with your instructions… I mean, if you turn airplane mode on then that means you can not send an email since the phone cannot connect to anything. So what you’re describing as a process is impossible.

Worked like a charm for me. Thanks a million.

And for those who don't want to delete the original unsent email, the logical thing to do would be to just resend it. Or, copy/paste it to another email client and send it.

Fixed it! Thanks!

this is not working, outbox still blank. nothing there to delete. and I don't understand when you say (Open Mail "back up") what is this backup?

This problem has been plaguing me for about 1 year! I "assumed" it was a problem with my laptop email program. Had no idea the problem was tied to an unsent email on my iPhone! Checked my phone, sure enough, that's where the email was. Googled, found this great solution, and that email is now gone! Thank you great2bnaustin!😁

That works fine thanks. But the problem is that the recipient doesn't get the email originally sent.

This method seems very complicated, but it may be that the OS has changed since 2014. Now (2018) it's enough to just open the mail app and navigate to the outbox to find the stuck message - see my post here.

That did it!

It worked perfectly, thank you so much