AOL mail not working on iPhone

The easiest way to fix that problem is to delete the account and add it back. The next best way is to go to Settings/Accounts & Passwords, open the account, then go to SMTP settings and enter the same passcode there that you entered for incoming email.

All I can say is that it seems to be working today, but who knows about tomorrow.

I do not have an iPhone, but use mail on my iPad. Are you uptodate on IOS?

i did follow their (AOL) recommendations to create an imap account with the specifued incoming and outgoing settings and port settings since I was using POP setup. You might try contacting AOL mail by email as they do respond. The more complaint, maybe they will not be so quick to blame Apple mail client.

I’ve started to have the same problem recently. No AOL emails coming to iPhone. I deleted, turned phone off, then on, then reinstalled the account. Same problem! Here’s what works...sign on to AOL thru your browser. Then suddenly your iPhone works...all the mail comes in. It will work for a while then the problem recurs. I suspect AOL has added some new security feature. If this continues I will abandon my AOL account ... after 30 years!

THIS IS AN APPLE PROBLEM!!! ... because the same aol account works perfectly on my new iPhone 8 but can’t receive emails on my husband’s new iPhone 8. We both updated to iOS 11.4 last night. His AOL account works perfectly on my phone but has the same problems you all have on his. I compared ALL account settings and they are all the same. I compared all phone settings and those are the same too. (I also tried everything that was suggested in this thread before.) ... But since the same AOL account works on one phone but doesn’t work on an identical phone it HAS to be a setting issue with that phone. ...?

For the past couple weeks my iPad mail is not updating. Since I am using Verizon mail now AOL mail, I contacted AOL about this problem and they recommended creating an imap account using same password as my POP account. Whenever the IOS mail does not update, I have to go to AOL mail and sign out and sign back in. This immediately causes the IOS mail to update. It happens with the imap account as well as the POP account. I sent AOL my imap settings which they said were correct and blaming the Apple IOS mail client as the problem. I have had no problems like this until 2-3 weeks ago. I have the latest IOS updated system. This problem also exists on my Mac laptop running Siera, which i also added a imap account. It is a nuisance having to get into AOL mais in order to update my mail. I have no desire to use AOL mail! Anyone have a similar problem.

I doubt it is an AOL issue but something with your device. Open a browser, type in AOL.com, try signing into your mail that way. If you can get in that way then it’s a problem in the settings in your mail on your Apple device. You can call Apple support and they can walk you through it. If you scroll down the page there are other people that I’ve had the same problem and multiple solutions on fixing it.

I just experienced the same issue as the original poster (OP). Rather than delete my aol account from the MacOS mail app, I just forced quit the mail app and restarted it. Then I was notified that my aol account was offline. I turned it back to online and everything was back to normal. Hope this helps.

I have always used two factor. Been hacked twice WITH two factor. Also had an unkown app password made on my account from another country. RUN if you can. I am stuck with them for now but slowly trying to switch to another email and close it. The app password has always worked well for me. I was hacked for the first time about 30 min after downloading and logging in to the AOL app from the app store maybe just my foil hat but I refuse to use it. Also AOL is down a LOT so a few times when I thought my email was acting foolish it was AOL. I do not think it is the phone or Apple. Settings and or if you have tried all of the above maybe it is out. Check the reviews on the actual app. Also paid customers seem to have a lot of issues so not sure what they are paying for. And I called about said issue and was told I had viruses and to give remote access and was quoted a few hundred to "fix" said viruses I did not have. Big YIKES for me.. Never let them do this. People have been scammed as I have recently read a lady did allow them to and it messed her PC up. To give up a right to not sue them to continue to use the email service is just well uncomfortable. Because they have been sued before I guess. L I have an idea of exatly who hacked me twice.. I hate that AOL was forced on us unless we gave up email that we have used for a decade or more.

On your AOL homepage, click on your name on top right and it will take you to Account and security will one of the options

At this point, and as much as you probably don’t want to do this, I would delete the account, restart the phone and start all over again. Many times that’s the best course of action after you have made changes in the current account and the changes have failed.

If that still fails, you can try contacting AOL for help, but more often than not, in my experience, AOL is going to say that it’s an Apple issue not an AOL problem. I just don’t know what else to do at this point.

I got to work this morning and found that we were having some minor issues with sending our AOL mail. It seems to be working OK now, but I know that it has gotten a little less reliable for us over the past few months.

It certainly couldn’t hurt for you to contact AOL support and see if they can help.

I just answered the same question above; here was my post, repeated:

The easiest way to fix that problem is to delete the account and add it back. The next best way is to go to Settings/Accounts & Passwords, open the account, then go to SMTP settings and enter the same passcode there that you entered for incoming email.