Apple Watch Email Sync Problems

Same issue here. The UX for mail leaves a lot to be desired. When it works right, it's great for triage. When it doesn't, it's a real head scratcher. Why should I unlock my iPhone to see more mail when it should be piped in on a schedule I specify? Personally, I've turned off all haptic/sound feedback for Mail on my Watch, but I do let the red notification dot tell me between occasional glances if I should look at my notifications for mail.

I'm eagerly awaiting the final release of watchOS 2 and/or Mailbox to deploy their watchOS app. Haven't tried others like Spark or CloudMagic, but some people seem to like them. They just don't give custom notification control for things like haptic/sound feedback because of watchOS 1 limitations, as I understand it. For the life of me, I can't understand why third party mail clients beat Apple to the punch of handling mail replies from the watch too.

Do you have your email settings to Push? Check your Mail settings on your phone, under Fetch New Data (turn on Push). be sure that your email is also on "Fetch", and you can have it set up every 15 min, 30 min, hourly or manually.

Once that's done, just change the settings on the watch within the Watch app on your phone, to mirror your iPhone.

I had those settings already configured on my devices with some minor custom configurations on my watch.

When I opened the stock Mail app on iPhone, I got an alert that google's imap server was having a problem connecting. My iCloud mail address was humming along just fine. My inbox was also showing an old gmail email I had archived from my watch a day or two ago. So, I force closed the Mail app and relaunched it.

Voila, everything's working again. Seems something went wonky with Mail and since I mostly use Mailbox, it took me having to open Mail to notice the issue.

Great!