Email content not downloading from server in ios 9

Try resetting your Mail Account and system by following these steps (please do not skip any steps). First close your Mail App completely from the multitasking window by double clicking the Home button and swiping up the Mail preview pane up until it disappears from the screen. You may have to look for the Mail pane by scrawling to the left as there may be other panes there from other apps. Then go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > locate your email provider and click on the account. Then on the next page Delete Account. Then do a forced restart. Hold down the Home and Wake/Sleep buttons at the same time for about 15-20 seconds until the Apple logo appears. Ignore the "Slide to power off" text if it comes up. You will not lose anything. Then go back to Settings > Mail… and add the account again.

Oh oh, most accounts are IMAP like Yahoo (what I have), Gmail, Outlook, etc. IMAP accounts are easy to reset, POP accounts a little more difficult. If you have a POP account you are wise to write down the details. If you have an IMAP account you can go to a Safari browser page, or any other browser for that matter on any computer or iDevice, bring up the log-in page, log in to your account and see all your emails. You can then do a test, send a worthless email, i.e., send an email to yourself with Test on the subject line and Test on the body. Then go to any other device and check - your test email should be there and if so delete it, then go back to where you sent it from and it should be gone as well. This is how all IMAP accounts work. I am not sure on the following (I do not have a POP account) but I believe that the above will not happen with a POP unless you specifically set it to delete from the server as well. Maybe others will jump in here and clarify.

SOooo I have to act like i am setting up ALL SIX of my email accounts as new accounts simply because I upgraded up to a new and still buggy IOS. Way to go Apple. Locking up a brand new iPhone with a system upgrade and a two month old iPad now has to get all the email accounts manually re entered? Hmmm... Not great advertising.

valeriefromrock springs wrote:

Soooo I have to act like i am setting up ALL SIX of my email accounts as new accounts simply because I upgraded up to a new and still buggy IOS. Way to go Apple. Locking up a brand new iPhone with a system upgrade and a two month old iPad now has to get all the email accounts manually re entered? Hmmm... Not great advertising.

Don't rant to me about it, I am a phone user just like you who volunteers to help other users on this forum, apparently not you. If you want to express your displeasure do so here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/

I'd be cautious before deleting email accounts. According to the post from Will 616 here:

Problems with mail in iOS 9

"Deleting the account and setting it up again from scratch does not solve the issue and will result in the loss of all the email placeholders - further increasing your loss of knowledge."

Did you mean to reply to me or the OP? I am not having any issues, he is. The OP likely has an IMAP account and needs to confirm this before taking action. Deleting and readding an IMAP account would not be a problem at all for him or me.