iOS 9 update mail shows as unread? All 43000!

Same thing here. I noticed the rediculous amount of unread mails minutes after updating to iOS9. Happens when leaving our WiFI hotspot zone.

When the location is changed and the phone goes back from 3G to WiFi the display is correct again after a short time.

2^32 = 4294967296 lol...

What happens is that the phone keeps loading up old messages from the inbox on the actual mail server.

Most people don't ever move these messages so the inbox is enormous

Yes Apple should have handled this properly but they haven't so good luck waiting for a fix.

Meanwhile this is what to do to get around the problem:

Go into your mail on the actual server-iinet, gmail or wherever and move ALL messages out of your in box into a folder on that server.

e.g set a folder up called Sep2015, for example, and move all messages from your in box into it. Don't worry they will still all be safe and will also be on your iphone or computer or wherever you have already loaded them.

Once the server inbox is empty go into your phone and set all messages there to "mark as read".

Now it won't keep loading up old messages and the unread count will work as before.

This happened the last time there was a major upgrade -apple has not catered for it properly again.

BTW if you have iinet it will only let you move a max of 200 messages at a time to a folder-this is a pain but worth the effort

I'm also suffering from this issues. Rather annoying! Hope a fix comes out soon!

I had 1 unread email in the inbox of my Exchange email account. I tried marking all as unread then read; didn't help. I went into the account on my computer and did the same. Still nothing. What worked for me was going into my iPhone mail settings and changing the Mail Days to Sync for the account to 1 Day (it was set on 1 month). I went back to the account and refreshed the inbox and the unread phantom was gone. I went back to the settings and changed it to 3 Days, refreshed, then 1 week, refreshed, etc., until I got back up to 1 month. Now, back on 1 month the unread phantom in the inbox hasn't returned. Good luck.

This worked for me! Tried your suggestion to change the Mail Days Sync frequency to 1 day and the unread email was gone. Changed my frequency back to 2 weeks and everything is still OK!!

I do not think this applies to POP3 accounts:

"What worked for me was going into my iPhone mail settings and changing the Mail Days to Sync for the account to 1 Day (it was set on 1 month"

Can you describe exactly where you see the "Mail Days to Sync" setting and exactly how to get to it? I do not see those settings in any of my POP accounts. Thanks.

Hi, i was facing the same problem, and this work on my mail box. At first there is 20000 mails.

I have 11 mail box on my iPhone, I login all mail account over Browser and check for mark as unread and then mark as read.

All the mails become read and only left in 1 mail box to be fix.

Hope this will help. Thanks

Go to Settings on your iPhone. Then, open "Mail, Contacts, Calendars" in Settings. From there, open the account with the issue. 2nd to the bottom is the Mail Days to Sync setting. Good luck.

I had a similar issue since I updated to iOS 9. I had a red 27 on my icon that would not go away. After reading a lot of the posts here, I realized it was coming from the one POP3 email account I had on my phone (I detected this by turning off the notifications one at a time unto the red number went away).

Once I narrowed it down to my POP3 email account, I went to that account via Webmail on my desktop computer. I have my email set to delete after 14 days, or after I delete it from my computer. YOu see, I use multiple computers to pull email from that account, so I leave it there to give me time to get to it with my other computers (iPad, laptop, desktop) before I delete it.

I went into the Webmail and made sure I had all the emails in the Inbox for that account on y computer, and then deleted all the emails from the Webmail (This deleted them from my server). I then asked my iPhone to go back and check for new mail and magically, the annoying red number was gone.

I basically took a few different people's ideas and tracked my problem down. I hope it can work for others.

Have a good day!

Ron

Go to Settings,

then Mail, Contacts, Calendars,

then Exchange (which is my email account),

Then near the bottom is "Mail Days to Sync".

Change your setting to 1 day, and then go to your mail icon and refresh your mail.

Once refreshed, go back and change the sync days back to your setting.

Hope it works for you like it did for me!

i just updated to iOS 9 and i have an iPhone 6... same issue showing 43,000 unread emails in all inbox category even though i had no unread emails.

i deleted all email accounts and added them back and it fixed the problem

hope this helps

Hi,

anyone ran the 9.0.1 update? Couldn't find out, if the issue is addressed here..

ok,

just ran the update to 9.0.1. Problem still exists.

Thanks for alerting me to new update

But no thanks to Apple for not fixing this ridiculous mail issue

iPad Air 2 - still got 7,000 emails and have done ever since downloaded iOS 9

Apple must surely be aware of this?

Had the same issue just delete and add email addresses again and it should go back to normal. Mine did. Good luck.