Mail 4+

I’ve been using this app for many years across multiple devices and iphones without any issues, but over the last few months I’ve noticed a recurring problem when attempting to move emails from my inbox to other folders; I’ll press edit and then select a singular or multiple emails to move, press “move email(s),” and when the folders menu opens, it suddenly closes before I have the chance to select the desired folder. Occasionally it lets me scroll through them momentarily before closing again. I’ve also tried using the swipe left option to bring up the required options and folder menu, as well as clicking on each email individually and attempting to move the email from there, but both with the same result.

My only work-around, which only works about 50% of the time, is to move my emails to an auto/pre-selected folder, and then go to that folder, and proceed to move them to the desired folder from there!

I’ve tried updating my iphone software installment to its latest version with each release, yet the issue still persists!
I’ve checked all of the options in my phone’s settings menus without any avail. Hopefully this issue will be rectified in the near future, or I may have to switch to another mail supplier, which would be a huge shame seeing as I have been using gmail for so long.

I use both Outlook & Mail on my iPhone (for different E-Mail addresses). Outlook pretty much works reliably whereas Mail is choppy at best. It’s 50/50 whether I receive a notification on the Lock Screen of new mails. There’s no particular pattern in play (done the usual dance with uninstalling, reinstalling, removing account, changing from a Pop3 to an IMAP etc etc etc). The only sure way of knowing if new mails have arrived is to physically open the app??? It’s a good job it’s not handling my primary address that receives important mails (thank Outlook 👍). Hmmm? It just doesn’t make sense that Apple aren’t dealing with this problematic app 🤔 maybe they assume that their user base mainly use GMail or Outlook so have given up on Mail ? Several months ago Outlook was suffering from a similar notification issue, after much digging (I’ll try and keep it simple here!!) it seems that Outlook use two servers, one to deliver the notification and another to deliver the EMail (once the app is opened!). Needless to say the issue was notification server related. The problem was patched/fixed within a week. It was pretty well documented so stopped users from wasting precious time reinstalling software or in extreme cases the entire OS on the advice of support teams!! I can’t help but think Apple have a notification server issue as per Outlooks issue. However, I’m not an Apple expert so things may work a little different on their app ?? 🤔

Normal Apple arrogance with this product, clearly none of the Apple developers use email, or if they do, they do not use this app. I have decent speeds but a coffee brews more quickly than an email loads. For at least 15 seconds for each mail the the little whirly in the middle of the screen does its thing after which the content might load or perhaps not. This Apple app is rotten in its core. Just an update. The little whirly thing now takes twice as long as it did in my last review. It is quicker to go into a browser, even Safari, and use it to read the mail. It is quicker even if you do not have the email as a set link. Apple struggles to achieve an omnishamble with this rubbish app.

Update 7 November 2023. Nothing has changed from before despite updates to IOS. I have given up and loaded Outlook, gods forbid a Microsoft product, which is infinitely better to the Apple offering.

Here we are at the end of March 2025. Another OS upgrade and 25 minutes plus to see the content of an email. Would have been quicker by walking the mail around