iPhone mail showing sent gmail from 1 year ago as sent recently

Hi everyone. Today my girlfriend was browsing through my phone and was in my “sent” folder of my email. (Gmail using iPhone stock mail app). In there she saw and opened a sent email dated as “Wednesday” (meaning this past Wednesday, 1/10/18). She left the message open and locked the phone. When I opened my phone all I saw was my list of recent sent emails, not the message she left open and the message she left open was not on my list of sent emails. After she described the email she saw and I did some digging, I found the email and it was sent 1year ago. It was dated 1/10/17. Not 18. Why would this have appeared in my sent emails as if it was sent this past week? Would it have been a glitch that mail fixed itself before I got to my phone? Can someone make sense of this for me? If this isn’t clear or you need more info ask.

Posted on Jan 13, 2018 9:55 PM

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Jan 14, 2018 12:31 AM in response to Smclaughlin264

You could try and see what change you may inflict upon your gmail account directly

by using the google mail app for iOS; sometimes visiting directly can be useful. Also,

for those who wish to sort or not import email to their iOS device, their app works...


Gmail - Email by Google on the App Store - iTunes - Apple

Description The official Gmail app brings the best of Gmail to your iPhone or iPad

with real-time notifications, multiple account support and search that ...

User uploaded filehttps://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gmail-email-by-google/id422689480?mt=8


At least its a free app direct from google, not some third party's with separate agenda.


Given I've never used an email client software application in Mac, the app is helpful as

it does not archive downloads into a specific device. And can be useful to troubleshoot.


In any event...

Good luck & happy trails! 🙂

Jan 13, 2018 11:09 PM in response to Smclaughlin264

Hey man... something very similar happened to me a few days ago. It was with my inbox,spam,trash and my sent folders. I opened them and they showed some messages from 2017 mixed with ones from 2018. After a few seconds in each folder the old messages disappeared, assumingly going back to their rightful places in the que. I don’t have an explaination for you but you’re not alone in this. It hasn’t happened to me since that time but I did think it was odd. Probably some sort of glitch in the mail app or in the sync with gmail. I haven’t seen anything on it besides this though. Good luck!

Jan 14, 2018 6:51 AM in response to Smclaughlin264

The same thing happened to me as well. I saw an email mixed in my recent sent mail on January 4, 2018 and on the list of messages it just said “Thursday”. I didn’t recognize the email as being sent 2 or 3 days prior so I clicked it and when I opened it, it showed in the time stamp under the recipient/sender info “January 4, 2017”. When I went back to my sent messages, the message was no longer there and only visible by searching (or I assume you could have scrolled back to it). I don’t know what to make of it but I’m glad to not be alone!!!

Jan 13, 2018 11:04 PM in response to Smclaughlin264

I had the same thing happen to me twice. Once on my iPhone 7. And then again shortly after I bought and updated the iPhone X. Like everyone else I haven’t found a cause anywhere. I guess it’s a new glitch in the mail application. Doesn’t seem to bother anyone because it corrects itself. I’m just glad I’m not alone in this. Everybody thought I was crazy and I couldn’t find any answers.

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