Email slow to load in mail app with iOS 11

The app is called “battery life” and it shows my battery only holds 78% of capacity compared to when new

The x1000 was not literal. I just meant than when my charge is less than 80% (of the 78% of original) everything slows down. Email fetching, key pay typing, app switching all are slowed. If you read the article about the slowdown it’s 40% if full speed. REALLY noticeable.

Hi, a Mac user of years, I speak from experience; recent iOS updates have made my mail so slow it is unusable; the problem does not arise in High Sierra

It is concerning recent claims against Apple for slowing down

older iPhones appear to also apply to my iphone 8plus; please Apple get your act together and rectify ASAP operation system issues resulting in poor performance and unrealiability you continue to inflict upon customers

It is crazy there should be even need to reboot etc as you suggest Joe; Apple is at fault - not us customers

I do not believe that the "slowing down "issue has anything to do with the atrocious performance of the Apple Mail App. I had an older iPad running iOS 10 but had to replace it in December because of damage. The Mail app was working fine - quick and snappy on the old iPad. The new replacement had iOS 11 pre - installed so there was no turning back the clock. From the day I took delivery, the Mail problems began ( not appearing, slow to appear, retrieving them manually etc ) and there has still been no fix from Apple forthcoming.

In frustration, I switched the Edison Mail App. It is everything the Apple Mail App should be and more. Try it.

What I don't get, is why a 3rd part app works just fine, yet Apple, with all the vast resources at their disposal, cannot get it right.

Bit late to this party, but I got tired of waiting for the apple mail app to load my emails so I downloaded the Yahoo app (as I have a yahoo email account) and just use that instead. It's super quick.

I too have resorted to using the yahoo app. Instant mail and I don’t have to put up with,not only slow mail, but my whole inbox and subfiles disappearing in front of my eyes and having to wait for it all to download again. Which now seems to happen every other day!

Snail mail from the USPS is faster than Apple's Mail under iOS 11.x 😟 And nobody from Apple has an iota of professionalism by choosing to not respond to this topic affecting 1000+ users (that's just the ones that found this post, there are undoubtedly tens of thousands more!). I think I might stop consuming apples in the future 🙂

I was hoping that the latest update would help, But it is still slow. I have just lost ALL of my Yahoo emails AGAIN and they are reloading. Not sure why this continues to happen, but would greatly appreciate a resolution.

Obviously you haven’t had to deal with issues with Microsoft. Apple is a saint compared to them. I run my (new) PC next to my old iMac and the iMac wins EVERYTIME!!!!. There is so much more complexities in programming that the average person knows nothing about. 1 thing changed can effect how other applications are handled. At least there is an attempt. With Microsoft and that new 10 os, it has taken a year of I don’t know how many failed updates that don’t take 15 minutes to install and complete. Very frustrating. I will opt for Apple any day.... My mail is loading slower but if that is the only glitch, I am happy....it is only my secondary mail outlet...

Apple deleted my first attempt to reply with my thoughts, guess they do not like constructive criticism... Here goes attempt #2:

I’m in the IT business for 30+ years, programming and supporting primarily Microsoft products. I’ve had iPhone for last 4-5 years, so recently decided to give Apple some of my money and bought an IMac 27”. My thought was that Apple was touted as having a better OS and cutting edge hardware. While I still believe the latter, this software issue with Apple’s own Mail app (starting with iOS 11) slowing down to snail like speed makes me realize they aren’t any better than Microsoft on the software front. It’s inexcusable for Apple to not have fixed it by now. And they have their heads buried in the sand if you call Apple Care. They’ll say a problem did exist, but was “fixed” since 11.0.1. That simply isn’t true, as this thread proves! And Apple doesn’t have the professionalism or courtesy to post ANYTHING in this thread! I mean, this is their forum - get involved for gosh sake! Over 1000 affected users according to just this one thread/topic. If you do IT, you know that for every one person that took the time to post here, there are scores more that haven’t found this post or limp along without complaining...

What really boggles me, as a programmer, is that Apple allows their Mail app software to display a ridiculous “LOADING” message for unusually long times (MINUTES sometimes for me)! Can’t they set some sort of timeout feature, and if a timeout occurs, analyze the situation, try other communication protocols etc? At a minimum, send analytic data back to Apple and figure out where the software roadblock is... You’d expect that from a company that touts itself so highly...

BTW I switched to MS Outlook for iOS, which works as expected...

It’s still definitely here. I have two Yahoo accounts and an Exchange account, and “Checking for Mail” can sometimes stay for minutes, like 5-8. Checking, loading, and even deleting can take forever, and if you exit the app before the thinking spinning wheel is done, nothing really gets accomplished.

This is what I’ve noticed.

The problem exist only with my primary Gmail account. Other Gmails and emails work fine.

After updating to iOS 11.2.2 this issue was gone for about a week but then it reappeared. This happened simultaneously with both my iPhone and iPad. And again, primary Gmail account only.

So I’m narrowing it down to the differences between the accounts. Maybe you can find similarities in yours?

The Gmail account with problem has...

1. Thousands of emails archived while other accounts have a lot less

2. Custom @domain.com with gmail G Suite (not @gmail.com)

Maybe Mail app has a problem with large amounts of emails?

I have same slow Yahoo e-mail on iPhone 6 & iPad Air 2 both running latest iOS 11 versions & it’s been like this since updating to the first iOS 11 version! I’ve tried the various solutions listed in this thread withough success... come on Apple give your e-mail app some love or I’ll be tempted to leave & try alternatives...

Spent an hour yesterday with Apple support and thought my issue was with

Google mail. Now just as bad On Apple mail. Slow as mud on my 8+,

MacBook, iMac and iPad. The intermittent but was never this bad until new

iOS. Awful.

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Same and it is happening with my Shaw mail and exchange. Was just on the phone with Apple Support attesting to fix for the 2nd time and NO. They have asked me to do todays update on my phone and scheduled a call back, I’ve done every update since 11 and that is the problem, Hey iPad has upated and its not working there so why will updating the phone be any different??? I think we have bum devices, I just got into a new 7 last year and new ipad pro, have you all new devices or old?

I was playing around with my setting last night and turned of the “live” photos in my camera and it seems like mail is now coming in normally???? Not holding my breath but do any of you have “live” turned on in your camera? Just curious, thanks