Email slow to load in mail app with iOS 11

It's affecting a LOT more than just Yahoo email (who uses that anyway?). I believe there are many that posted here about issues with MS Exchange email accounts that experience the dreaded "Loading..." message for an eternity (minutes) after clicking on a preview of a message to see the entire message body. Using Outlook for iOS, my Exchanged based emails now display nearly instantly, as I was used to with the Apple Mail app up until iOS 11.x got installed.

Now it’s gone from bad to worse again. My Yahoo new emails won’t load on my ipad again. It says that it’s up to date, but it’s not. My iphone, which has not been updated to IOS11, works just fine. How many times do I have to delete and reinstall before Apple fixes this? Apple, with this be days, weeks, or months before it is fixed?

yesterday's 11.2.1 fixed my slow mail load......for about 12 hours.

Most updates speed up the mail for the first day or so. Then they revert to slowness. Its like some cache gets filled and does not clear out

so back to lag

I have had this problem ever since I updated to iOS 11 on my 6s. None of the incremental updates have fixed this and I’ve tried all of the basic suggestions of doing a hard reset and resetting all settings. The only thing I haven’t tried is erasing all content and restoring. But I haven’t heard about that working for anyone so I’m relunctant to try. Opening the mail app is painful now. It takes 15-30 seconds before I can even click on something after I open the app and the same for each inbox. It says downloading content on the bottom of the app and it’s non responsive for 10-15 seconds which feels like an eternity when you’re used to 1-2 seconds in iOS 10. Occasionally the app crashes when trying to open an email. I’ve also had intermittent problems with slow loading in messages, but not nearly as frustrating as mail. A friend of mine had the exact same problem on his 6s and only fixed it by upgrading to an 8.

If anyone figures out a reliable solution, please post it.

Hi, moonflowervt, Looking at the thread, you'll see that the chances are low you'll find a way to fix this.

It may be more than you want to do, but many of us have gladly abandoned Apple's mail app, moving over to Outlook. If you have a way to do that, you'll be up and running in about ten minutes.

There's no way Apple isn't reading this forum. They're just ignoring us.

Hiding the “Unread” folder (if it is showing on the left navigation pane) and marking all existing mail as “Read” fixed mine and a few colleagues of mine and the issue has not returned. It’s worth a try. Not making any argument for Apple’s

Mail app but my company’s MDM policy doesn’t allow Outlook mobile. Let me know if it works for you I am interested to know. You should do this for all Mail accounts using the app and then restart Mail.

I tried that too. No avail. Besides it would just jam up again if you had a build up of unread emails. Who’s to decide that limit number

I am running outlook now but still check mail hoping for a miracle.

Reed,

Yes, you are right about a lot more people reading these posts do not use Yahoo. I for one use the Spectrum Roadrunner as my account and it functions through the Apple Mail on my iMac and iPad. (Don't want email coming into our smartphones and texts keep us busy enough there.) We don't use iPhones but I see most people, I'm sure a lot younger than us, do, and I can appreciate their anguish with slow downloading eMail. At first I thought that this was an isolated problem with my older Mac or that it was time to delete a huge accumulation of old ones that I keep. Sometimes it's tough to keep patient with the glitches that come with these upgrades but Apple is pretty reliable in the long run and will take care of us. Meanwhile, have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I've enjoyed using the Apple products for the 18 years of my retirement and swear by them. Keep the faith.

I tried that too. This morning my new gmail loaded but new yahoo messages did not load. It says it’s up to date but it isn’t. Thank goodness I didn’t update my phone, as I usually do them both at the same time. If this is permanent, then I will need a refund on my ipad so I can purchase something that actually works.I don’t want to deal with this EVERY DAY FOREVER.

Here it is December 17, 2017, and this issue is STILL NOT RESOLVED! Latest update, iPad Pro, and yahoo mail still has this problem! Is there anyone working on a fix? Does anybody at Apple or Yahoo! Care. Annoying as ****. It has cost me clients, dropping yahoo altogether!

Still having a problem here, too. I have to check my phone to make sure all the emails have loaded on my Ipad. Sometimes Yahoo emails don’t all load, and Gmail also taking forever to load. Yahoo customer service is nonexistent. Maybe they are saving the resolution as a holiday present.

My Yahoo account did something strange this morning. I clicked on the account and the emails appeared but then disappeared immediately with a "No Messages" indicator. Then it proceeded to download all of the emails again. Fortunately, I only had 84 messages in the account. Never did that before, very strange indeed. But the issues I'm having are with two Gmail accounts, a Google Apps account, and two Office365 accounts, in addition to Yahoo.

HI have had this issue with Yahoo mail disappearing for 12 months. So frustrating, I have an iPhone 6 Plus. I’m now having the slow download issue on both iPhone and iPad Air 2. If I use the yahoo app no issues. Just problem with built-in iOS mail box! Assume no closer to a fix?

There is an article today from geek bench about Apple slowing down the processor speed on devices with older degredated batteries. Seem that if your battery is above 80% or you do a restart, it will work at full speed.

So I am going to guess that part of the way they throttle is by slowing down all Apple apps. Makes sense they would try that

This would explain why my wife’s phone works as expected when mine is slow. Only difference in phones is mine has heavy use. Not hers. Grrr

I read many pages here hoping for a solution, but I see Apple didnt fix this yet.

So here's one more for statistics, iPhone 7+, 11.2.1, Gmail extremely slow.

I tried to sync my mail, waited a bit, then opened Safari, fill username, password, and Mail app hadnt synched yet!