I get this with an Exchange account a gmail account and my icloud one - isn't just 1 type of email.
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iPhone iOS 13.1 New email notification working but email not background downloading (Exchange)
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I am one of those folks that has not upgraded to IOS 13 because of the various email issues, whether with Exchange or otherwise. IOS 13.1.3 was just released and am curious if this corrected the mail issues that people in this tread have been talking about
I have a work Exchange email account and an iCloud account. On IOS 13.1.3 now, although I experienced the same behavior as on previous release and beta versions of IOS.
Exchange account is working perfectly for me, iCloud hangs on "checking for mail..." most of the time. Occasionally it will resolve after 30 seconds or so, but more than often I have to close the Mail app, wait 20 seconds, then reopen the app for it to (maybe) resolve.
Again, this is only with the iCloud account, so it is not Exchange causing the issue.
Grrrr, come on Apple, these are release versions of your software. They must have changed their policy regarding what is okay to release - if they continue to allow these mail bugs in release versions, they will end up losing their good reputation. Sad.
Exchange account is working perfectly for me, iCloud hangs on "checking for mail..." most of the time. Occasionally it will resolve after 30 seconds or so, but more than often I have to close the Mail app, wait 20 seconds, then reopen the app for it to (maybe) resolve.
Again, this is only with the iCloud account, so it is not Exchange causing the issue.
Grrrr, come on Apple, these are release versions of your software. They must have changed their policy regarding what is okay to release - if they continue to allow these mail bugs in release versions, they will end up losing their good reputation. Sad.
I think my Exchange mail account is now notifying normally, including sounds (vibe). I want to see it work properly for a few days before I believe those bugs are fixed.
Considering how long Mail has been broken in regards to pushing messages properly, could it be that Apple has changed the way it handles push tokens? I.e., could it be a server-side issue with Apple?
I’m guessing it’s the app being buggy. I’m no expert on the tech used for push, so it’d be cool if someone familiar with it could chime in.
I’m guessing it’s the app being buggy. I’m no expert on the tech used for push, so it’d be cool if someone familiar with it could chime in.
13.1.3 appears to have fixed my O365/Exchange issue. Email is now there when I have notifications. Finally!
It worked briefly yesterday but this morning I awoke to 7 new mail notifications in the lock screen, the badge also showed the correct number. But when I opened mail there was nothing there, it sat on “checking mail” for a solid minute before they appeared in the inbox. Definitely still broken. This is with office 365 and I had just reinstalled the mail account yesterday and hard rebooted the device too. Well good thing I’ve already moved on to outlook. Maybe by iOS 14 they’ll figure out how to mess up the Messages app too!
After upgrading to 13.1.3 last night (and things still not working for O365/Exchange), I started getting mail notifications about an hour ago.
Will keep an eye on it through the day, but for every Outlook notification (which I had turned on because I was missing emails), I am seeing its proper twin notification in Mail.app come through.
Will keep an eye on it through the day, but for every Outlook notification (which I had turned on because I was missing emails), I am seeing its proper twin notification in Mail.app come through.
Dear lord wtf did Apple do to mess up mail??? I don’t even see any substantial changes in it other than moving things that were one press into sub menus so now take multiple presses.
I posted last night that I was cautiously optimistic that my Exchange/Mail problems were fixed. Well, they aren't.
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Mail doesn't rate in the Apple ecosystem any more. They want to sell us TV+ and Music and Arcade. Who the **** needs archaic, unprofitable functions like Mail or Messages in a service subscription eco-economy?
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Sadly and very annoyingly, this is true.
Broken in 13.0.
Broken in 13.1.
Broken in 13.1.1.
Broken in 13.1.2.
Broken in 13.1.3.
Is there a trend here?
There certainly seems to be.
Is the solution to just use a third-party email? I just prefer the Apple Mail, and not having unnecessary apps just for email
edit. problem solved, I just installed Gmail and deleted mail app.
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I looked into that with our IT people. We use "Hub" (used to be AirWatch) to manage corporate email, and the only mail client that is supported is the native Mail app.
I'm going to retract my earlier statement. Worked a couple of times and now just like it was before - in fact worse I think. I was also wondering about Outlook and why more don't use it? I know I have tried in the past but didn't like it for some reason that I can't recall any more. It doesn't seem to show a message count like the native mail app does - maybe a setting? That could be my reason!
Very oddly (to me), Outlook is not supported for our Exchange mail servers, in spite of the fact that we use Office 365 for Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc. on our corporate PCs and (other than Outlook) on our mobile devices.
I tried to use Outlook but for some reason I can’t login to my work account on it.