Apple Mail (iOS / iPadOS) refreshing or fetching email takes a very long time

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Anyone else experience this? The problem comes and goes for me and my wife, on 4 different devices. Pull to refresh email and it will say fetching for a long time, then eventually give up showing no new mail. But I know there’s new mail because I can see it in gmail in the browser. Then later in the day it’s fine. I don’t think it’s our network or connection the best I can tell. Thanks in advance.

Also, on a fiber connection, can connect to email sources via web browsers w no issues, iPads and iPhones all on latest software and rebooted weekly.

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Yes, the exact same behavior is happening to me, especially on my iPhone. Actually it’s has been happening for quite some time (years).

Force-quitting and launching Mail again instantly resolves the issue for me until it is happening again eventually (hours, days or weeks).

It does happen, no matter if I am connected to a WiFi or the mobile network.

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Okay, thanks, and yeah sometimes killing the app fixes for me too. Glad it’s not just me LOL.

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Could well be something going on with your mail service provider and the internet wires between you and they.

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Same here, and especially on the iPad. I’ve wondered if it’s related to Gmail.

The workaround I do is that I just use the Gmail app, and skip the mail app all together.

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And I recently (last couple months) switched from Spark (where it effectively never happened to me) to the Apple Mail client.

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Same here. It only is happening with Apple Mail. I am using IMAP accounts.

I am waiting for Thunderbird for iOS which currently is in development.

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Yes, this has been happening with Apple Mail for years. I treat it as a blessing to not have to deal with any new email for awhile :grinning:

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