AOL mail not working on iPhone

I have a simple fix that worked for me. I simply went to safari on my iPhone and logged into my aol mail. When I went back to my mailbox on my iPhone, the account that had stopped working started downloading all my mail. I had already tried deleting and readding the account as well as restarting my phone before I opened up aol mail through safari.

Thanks for the info ... I did go to the Apple store today and found out that

I had inadvertently turned on 2 factor authentication on my AOL settings and had to disable it (on a PC) in order for me to sign into my AOL account through my preinstalled iPhone “mail app “ as opposed to downloading and using an AOL app to retrieve my email.

I had no idea that such a small thing could have given me such a headache all this time!! I hope this info is helpful to everyone who was having similar problems!

Gina

Funny I thought I was only one who had an aol mail account still lol apparently not. I changed password and then i couldn't get my mail on my iPhone X. So I did what they said go on PC or Mac and sign on to aol mail in browser i then went I settings. My 2 step authentication was off i turned on then click manage app and created a passeword. Then went my phone in setting click accounts and passeword then i deleted my aol then clicked add account put my email and copied and pasted the passeword that was was created on pc and works fine

That didn't work for me. I also deleted the AOL account then re-added it, and that didn't work either. What finally worked for me, I simply turned off the phone for a few hours. When I turned it back on, everything worked just fine. That was it. Sometimes the on/off switch solves the problem.

From the AOL home page click on your name. should be under or near mail icon.
personal info page comes up. click on account security. scroll down to the last item.
"Allow apps that use less secure sign in" turn that on. go back to your iphone and set up the mail account from scratch. your done.

PS. Forgot to say that you had to choose the app that you wanted a random password generated for. I chose IPHONE MAIL

I really don’t think that this is the problem, since you aren’t getting incoming mail, but did you make sure that your password is entered and entered correctly in the outgoing mail server setting?

Settings>Accounts & Passwords>Your AOL account>Account>Outgoing server setting>SMTP>Primary Server. Check the password in there. As I said, that should onlt affect issues with outgoing mail, but anytime I have had issues with my 4 email accounts, it was because something had gone awry in that setting.

i had the exact same problem this week- i went to the apple store and they said there was a problem with aol and iPhones since new software update. they installed the Aol app onto my phone which seems to be the solution for the moment.

Go to Settings/Accounts & Passwords. Tap on the AOL account, then Account. Then SMTP. You will see several accounts. If there is more than one AOL account tap on each one and enter your AOL screen name and password. Use the same password you used when you set up the account.

Make sure your imap account has the correct incoming and outgoing servers and port settings (993 and 465 respectively). When i cannot get the mail to update, I found going into AOL webmail, signing off and signing on gets the mail updating immediately. A pain in the butt, but it seems to work.

This has happened to me several times. It comes up randomly. You discover it when you can’t send mail and get the “server at imap.aol.com is not responding” message. Then you realize you have not received new mail in 24 hrs. It always happens simultaneously on you iPhone and iPad mail app. For whatever reason, the Apple mail app and AOL mail stop speaking to each other.

There is a very easy solution.

On your iPhone (or iPad), go to settings/accounts and passwords/my AOL mail account and DELETE your AOL mail account

Reboot your iPhone/iPad

Go into settings/accounts and passwords

Click Add Account and ADD your AOL mail account

When you do this on your iPad, it will ask you to turn off Notes (directly under mail acct.). Other than that, deleting and reinstalling your aol account on your iPhone and iPad is identical.

You will not loss anything. It’s all stored in the cloud, as well as on the other apple device.

lol boy you are right about that! Especially since this has been an on going issue and it does seem to occur when the updates come out. But this time I didn’t update my phone yet and it happened. I finally changed the password (by logging into AOL from my pc), then changing it on my iPhone. Still didn’t like that. So I had to delete the AOL mail and reinstall. Just tried to send an email and it did go thru. Now I will have to see if I am receiving from all accounts and can send from all accounts tmr. Apple and AOL def need to get their **** together!

I had the same problem. Basically, I think a file somehow gets corrupted and the server can't be reached. I solved this problem by going into settings and adding email account and password again without deleting anything. Everything works now.

Hope this helps.

My issue was the server. Wrong port

You have to put the passcode in twice; once for incoming, and again in the SMTP (outgoing) server settings. Or just delete the account then add it back.