iPhone X Yahoo! email does not update

This just started happening. I get a good amount of emails throughout the day in my Yahoo mail box and now it is saying no new messages. When I go to a desktop, there clearly are new messages. I have tried different WIFI accounts, cell data, restarted the device, hard closed the mail app and uninstalled and reinstalled the email account. When I reinstalled it, it updated to show current emails, but will not update again.

iPhone X, iOS 11.1.2

Posted on Dec 12, 2017 1:05 PM

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Posted on Feb 17, 2018 11:50 AM

This worked for me. Thank you. I had to go to yahoo mail in my web browser, pull up my security settings, and enable 'Allow apps that use less secure sign in.' After this I was able to re-add my yahoo account to my Apple mail app.

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Mar 16, 2018 10:43 PM in response to the_mener

I have the same problem as well. Yahoo mail totally works on my iPhone 6, I've read all the comments and tried all the suggested solutions, they all seem to be working for a day, then when I wake up the next day, it stops working. I have downloaded the yahoo mail app to check my mail now, but would like to go back to the iPhone Mail app.


Seems crazy ridiculous that my 3 year old iPhone 6 and 6 year old iPad would work fine, but the brand new iPhone X would not receive simple emails. How could this be Yahoo's problem when the emails work totally fine on my other apple devices?


Someone from Apple please address this issue!

Mar 17, 2018 6:17 AM in response to KiltedTim

My full context is “Seems crazy ridiculous that my 3 year old iPhone 6 and 6 year old iPad would work fine, but the brand new iPhone X would not receive simple emails. How could this be Yahoo's problem when the emails work totally fine on my other apple devices?”.


Are you telling me that Yahoo’s server would only not work on my iPhone X? Doesn’t make sense to me that my iPhone 6 and iPad are receiving yahoo emails just fine but my iPhone X aren’t.

Mar 17, 2018 9:44 AM in response to KiltedTim

So the iPhone X is always hitting a bad yahoo server? But my iPad and older iPhones hit “good” servers?


Or is Yahoo directing the X’s to bad servers in their farm?


Deleting credentials and re-adding them seems to help for maybe a day. Then it goes belly up again.


I have also deleted and re-added the credentials on my other Apple devices and they are still receiving emails without issue.


Or... Maybe this is all a ploy by yahoo to make us all use their app so they can push all those integrated ad’s in front of us.


*le sigh*


I have been to lazy to switch off of Yahoo, guess it is time to start switching over to gmail.

Mar 19, 2018 2:08 PM in response to Teddy_B

Please don’t get offended but is this all you’ve got? Can we have some serious discussion on how to fix it rather then silly questions on whether my WiFi router is on? This is extremely frustrating as I can see my emails on yahoo app which I’ve installed for testing purposes as well as online.

My inbox caught on finally after 2 days but sent items from past three days are still nowhere to be seen.

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