Mail app crashes after iOS 10 update

This didn't happen to me until I reset my iPhone because the Apple Store guy told me that would solve the problem I had to begin with, which was when I plugged my iPhone into a USB port in my car music would begin to play through my Pandora app even though the app wasn't open. To stop music playing I had to open the Pandora app then close it. The reset did not eliminate this nuisance. Now I have the added pain of my mail app quitting for no reason. It quits every time I attempt to do a search so I am in the process of deleting some 2000 previously deleted emails again - one at a time.

Two days ago Mail started crashing constantly on my iPhone iOS 10.2.1. Never happened before.

Unbelievably frustrating as I use my phone 95% for mail, 5% for calls.

Can anyone recommend a better mail client? Many things to love about Apple but software is not one of them.

I have an iPhone 5S with IOS 10.3.2. Some days ago the mail app stopped working. When I tried to open it it kept blank, althogh the icon indicated it was receiving emails. There were other system malfuctions ( I couldn't edit email accounts, view iCloud storage, etc.).

I tried several fixes (removing the mail app, resetting the iPhone from iTunes and restoring from an iTunes backup, purchasing iCloud space - it was full-) but it kept making the same errors.

Finally I reseted the iPhone and restored it from iCloud. And the phone started working normally again.

I read that iCluod restores work diffently from iTunes', or maybe it was that it had an earlier version of the phone that was not corrupted. I suspect that the error may have something to do with the lack of iCluod space.

I had this exact same problem started a couple of weeks ago. Running ios 10.3.3 on iphone 6 plus. I'll be straight up

This, like many of these "random" issues absolutely infuriated me. I did absolutely nothing to have this change. ios mail is my bread and butter so it really stopped me in my tracks.

As with everything, googled it, I've read numerous threads on the ios boards like this and suggested solutions elsewhere. None of them worked, some of them, especially the offiically supported suggestions were just extreme.

After banging my head for a week without resolve I tried the following, call it a moment of clarity.

Settings > Mail > Accounts > Fetch New Data

Then turned it off.

It was a process of elimination, I figured if it worked I could manually pull mail from each account one at a time to identify the problem.

This worked. When I say it worked I mean the ios mail app no longer crashed. I went through each e-mail account but none of them crashed the app when pulling mail so I couldn't identify the problem, however, I have alot of accounts and alot of folders, so it may be that it's a particular folder that's causing the problem.

Further more, I had previously, albeit very briefly noticed a weird ios mail gltich, where a folder or two would be named incorrectly on my phone usually to a bunch of numbers/letters, so could possibly have something to do with that.

In short, switch off Fetch, this worked for me and was the biggest relief I've felt since I unloaded my blue balls after 2 years.

Ironically, I, after checking each account, turned fetch back on and the problem did not return until 2 weeks later. So I still believe the problem may lie with a specific folder. And yes, turning "Fetch New Data" fixed it again.

So if you have the issue with iOS mail app crashing, for me it would open then crash after seconds, usually at some point of trying to pull mail from an account, then try switching off fetch new data.

Hope it helps.

p.s Posting this potential solution on all related threads because 99% of responses make me won't to suicide. I'm a real person who lives in the real world with real things to do and just don't have time to waste looking for what should be simple solutions to stupid problems especially when the solutions are non-existent or ********.

Have you restarted the iPad? Hold Sleep and Home buttons until you see the Apple.

Hi, I have the same problem, I think it is a bug and there's probably not much we can do until Apple rectify this in the next update. Also, I don't have the arrows to navigate between emails either. So I have to make the side menu appear every time which is quite annoying. Cheers, Pierre.

Same issue here with both iPhone 6 and iPad Air2. It always happens when it is fetching mail. Most of the time just one crash and then stable, but on occasion it will crash repeatedly. Have done hard reset a couple times with no improvement. Have not deleted/re-installed email accounts as I have 4 and it hasn't reached that level of annoyance, yet.

I have the same problem since the 10 update. Restarting didn't help. Apple needs to fix this!

In addition to rebooting my iPad4 I have also reset my network connection and deleted/re-installed my email account. I still get crashes back to home screen sometimes when I delete an email.

Same problem for me as well. Email will "sit there" for a bit and finally crash. Double tapping the home button and closing the app seems to help maybe 20% of the time. Very annoying.

Recommending to everyone I know to not update until iOS 10 becomes less beta. C'mon Apple!

CCrashes on both my iPhone and iPad! Seems I can read 5 or 6 emails before it crashes.....every time! As one said very annoying to say the least!

I Did try everything but deleting the mail App, which I am afraid to do! So Apple get your act together and please come out with a fix.....soon.

I have an iPad 4 with the same problem, too. I thought the newest update 10.0.2 would bring the solution... but sadly, the problem remains.

I hope Apple will fix it soon...!!!