Mail notifications - How to make them disappear

[matt_and_187_like_this]

Hi,
how do I make Mail notifications disappear on my phone when I've read the mail on my Mac? Currently they stick around until I open the Mail app and manually hit refresh. I am talking about the number indicator on the icon, but I also would like to get rid of the lockscreen notification after I've read it on a different device if possible. Background app refresh is enabled.

 

[BrianBaughn]

I just tested this with my iPhone 8 on iOS 14.6 where I had 7 Mail notifications (IMAP accounts set to fetch every 30 minutes)…and when I deleted the messages in two IMAP accounts on my Mac with Mojave the badge cleared and the lockscreen notifications were gone on the iPhone after a few minutes.

Background App Refresh is on for me, also, but I don't have a switch in that section for Mail.

 

[matt_and_187_like_this]

I just tested this with my iPhone 8 on iOS 14.6 where I had 7 Mail notifications (IMAP accounts set to fetch every 30 minutes)…and when I deleted the messages in two IMAP accounts on my Mac with Mojave the badge cleared and the lockscreen notifications were gone on the iPhone after a few minutes.

Background App Refresh is on for me, also, but I don't have a switch in that section for Mail.

Thank you. I have push enabled for my iCloud account and fetch set to hourly. Changed it so 30min now. Everything else is the same already :/

 

[BrianBaughn]

Perhaps other folks using iCloud can chime in with their experience. Would it surprise us if iCloud email has this issue?

My three IMAP accounts are one Gmail, one Office 365 (set up as IMAP) and one private domain email hosted at the webhost.

 

[NoBoMac]

how do I make Mail notifications disappear on my phone when I've read the mail on my Mac?

I think the answer is, basically, you can't.

Not just mail, but pretty much everything in the Apple eco-system that uses Notifications are either local Notifications or server/developer managed. In the case of the server/developer, they maintain a service on their end that handles the notifications, so when you clear it on one device, it should clear on all others.

Local, as the name implies, are generated locally and have no connection to other devices. In the case of Mail, does not know you read on another device until it refreshes (either on schedule or manually) or mail service pushed info (when supported).

ADD: in the case of iCloud, not sure how that is supposed to work (my iCloud email is not used other than a recovery account for other services). Guessing it's local Notifications.