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All Devices So, I’m assuming... Mail is just gonna stay broken...
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Still an issue for me, expect it to come back and raise it’s ugly head sooner or later.
I installed 13.2.3, wiped my phone and iPad, and set up as new without using my iCloud backup. The unread mail not appearing bug was resolved.
Now I’ve updated to 13.3, which purports to fix the bug. Well, the bug is back. The update did the exact opposite of what it claimed to do.
I’ve come to expect such irony from Apple though. Like another poster said, their engineers are simply incompetent and incapable of fixing the bugs. They’re just an embarrassment now.
Now I’ve updated to 13.3, which purports to fix the bug. Well, the bug is back. The update did the exact opposite of what it claimed to do.
I’ve come to expect such irony from Apple though. Like another poster said, their engineers are simply incompetent and incapable of fixing the bugs. They’re just an embarrassment now.
I am still having the issue of receiving notifications but emails not downloading in mail until I open and refresh it with 13.3; I don’t think Apple know how to fix this or they don’t care. I just wish I had stuck with iOS 12. I don’t care about new emoji I just want my work email to behave the way it ought to.
same issues here. I had 5 new emails show on the lock screen and badge showed 5 emails. I go into the mail app and none of them are there. It shows 5 unread messages in the bottom but they still don’t show. I have to manually refresh for them to all appear. The good thing is it looks like they fixed the other mail issues. I am able to forward emails with the complete string and attachments and no duplicate sent emails.
Let's not be too hard on Apple. It's not like they've had a lot of time to fix this, and mail is a new type of application that hasn't been around for that long.
Apple's default app works well enough on the desktop/in Catalina, but I wouldn't touch the mobile version with a 10 foot pole (the amount of people I know who still use it I can count on one hand - almost all have switched to an alternative like Outlook, Edison, ProtonMail etc).
On 13.3 I can no longer swipe to back up. It only brings up the swipe options. Even if I turn the swipe options off, swipe to back up isn’t working anymore.
Exactly. Also not a core app. Lol. It is shocking that they messed this up so bad.
It’s embarrassing that Apple are so seemingly incompetent and inept.
My problems seem to have mostly resolved since 13.2.2 (now on 13.3.0). Every so often I'll get an error where my Exchange emails refuse to delete. Restarting the Mail app fixes that.
Running 13.3 PR across all devices (IPP 11 / IPP 12.9 / XS Max).
That said: Mail
Still won't stay defaulted to the All Unread screen.
On one of my accounts I now have a number of previously deleted emails - just on the IPP, not on the XS Max
Still have to manually refresh to get all the unread email
Read or delete or mark read all emails on IPP 12.9 - takes up to 15 minutes (or more) for all my devices to sync.
Same account, on all three devices in Mail, do not show the same info until I manually refresh - then they match
It is still broken.
Edit: fixing spell check error as I find them
That said: Mail
Still won't stay defaulted to the All Unread screen.
On one of my accounts I now have a number of previously deleted emails - just on the IPP, not on the XS Max
Still have to manually refresh to get all the unread email
Read or delete or mark read all emails on IPP 12.9 - takes up to 15 minutes (or more) for all my devices to sync.
Same account, on all three devices in Mail, do not show the same info until I manually refresh - then they match
It is still broken.
Edit: fixing spell check error as I find them
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Still getting the same error for my my outlook account on 3 different devices.
This is absolutely pathetic and Apple should hide their head in shame with this garbage they call a "Mail" app.
I updated to 13.3 and thought I would give it a shot again and same issues that everyone else is having, I'm still having as well.
I also got this little gem today. None of the mail I was sending with my exchange account was actually going out. It sent, but didn't actually send. For whatever reason no one got anything I sent them today. I opened up the outlook desktop app on my Mac and none of my sent mail was in there. Thank you Apple for wasting my entire day's worth of emails.
I'm done with this **** app that Apple is calling "Mail." Its an embarrassment at the level of the Apple Maps launch and I don't know that I'll trust it again moving forward and am just going to have to adapt to something else I guess.
I updated to 13.3 and thought I would give it a shot again and same issues that everyone else is having, I'm still having as well.
I also got this little gem today. None of the mail I was sending with my exchange account was actually going out. It sent, but didn't actually send. For whatever reason no one got anything I sent them today. I opened up the outlook desktop app on my Mac and none of my sent mail was in there. Thank you Apple for wasting my entire day's worth of emails.
I'm done with this **** app that Apple is calling "Mail." Its an embarrassment at the level of the Apple Maps launch and I don't know that I'll trust it again moving forward and am just going to have to adapt to something else I guess.
^^^^ I agree 100%. And to add insult to injury, the WatchOS app is just as garbage.
I really don’t know why are your Mail different from mine 🤷🏻♂️
It is working for me after the update.
It is working for me after the update.
We're very happy for you, but the mail app is broken for a lot of us.
I've been trying to stay optimistic about the 13.3 release fixing the numerous bugs I've had with Mail since upgrading from iOS 12 but here I am running 13.3 and most of the bugs are still there. I don't understand how a company like Apple screws up an app that was working just fine. Oh how I wish I could revert back to iOS 12 again. My number one purpose for having an iPhone is for work email. They do not allow any other apps like Outlook to be used with Exchange so I'm stuck using this garbage app.
Same here, keep trying to make Mail work - my work Exchange/365 is working well - sometimes have to pull down to refresh for the actual emails to appear in the list. iCloud account is the issue for me, after a half hour or so this one account simply refuses to fetch mail until I force close the app and reopen. Says "Checking for mail..." at the bottom for an eternity.
Extraordinarily crazy that Apple has let this sit for so long. How many iterations of iOS 13 have we been through since June????
you guys all have way to high expectations from this Cupertino start up company.
it just works.
it just works.
I've given up and moved to Outlook alone. I kind of like how it works on watchOS as well.
I think the only reason I stayed with Apple Mail was possibility of handoff. But don't think I've ever handed it off between my devices.
I think the only reason I stayed with Apple Mail was possibility of handoff. But don't think I've ever handed it off between my devices.
I made the switch too and after using for a week or so, i don't miss apple mail at all. Outlook is fast, notifications work fine and no mess-up with the emails. The only thing i would like to have is the ability to collapse threads in outlook, otherwise it is a solid mail app out there.
1. Mail app freezes for few seconds when it is opened by tapping on a mail notification
2. clicking any one mail notification from notification centre of iPhone to view that mail removes all existing mail notifications from the notification centre
13.3.
2. clicking any one mail notification from notification centre of iPhone to view that mail removes all existing mail notifications from the notification centre
13.3.
Guys, this issue is not only with Mail but also with the Reminders app. I've posted on here many times with an issue I have with syncing Reminders with my iPhone running iOS 13 onwards and Mac Pro running El Capitan. If a Reminder pops up on my iPhone and Mac, if I want to be reminded in an hour of that reminder, if I click "Remind me in an hour" on my Mac, the reminder disappears from the Mac. BUT it remains on my iPhone screen.
Today I figured out why this was. The phone needed another notification to come in and ONLY then will that reminder disappear from the iPhone screen. I think this is a Push problem.
Also, today my Mac just isn't receiving emails for a few minutes after my iPhone receives that same email.
I have no idea what is going on!
Today I figured out why this was. The phone needed another notification to come in and ONLY then will that reminder disappear from the iPhone screen. I think this is a Push problem.
Also, today my Mac just isn't receiving emails for a few minutes after my iPhone receives that same email.
I have no idea what is going on!
Went ahead and tried this ... you are correct about reminders.
The time delay on Mac vs iOS - that has been present for me since the launch of 13. It may shorten or lengthen, however it has been present throughout (retina MacBook 2015)