Anyone else experiencing the iOS 4 Mail bug?
If you are, you know what I’m talking about. I don’t even have to say it. For those who don’t know, the Mail app in iOS 4 has been loading ghost messages – emails with no sender, no subject, and no content – instead of the real deal. In some cases the message takes up space on the screen, but the cell reads “This message contains no content.”
In my own experience, the emails also have strange dates – 12/31/69 in most cases. It’s a really annoying bug, so bad that I went back to using regular old mobile Gmail. Apparently, though, deleting the email account and then reapplying it will fix the bug. You may have also noticed that you could access another folder – your Trash for instance – and then return to your Inbox to find things properly loaded.
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Yes, I can confirm the bug. An additional bug: it shows that I have twice the number of emails than I do. For whatever reason, it thinks there’s an additional thread to emails when there isn’t.
Yes, I have this too! I have all the symptoms you describe, plus the double messages from @Vishal. I’ve deleted the account and re-added it… doesn’t seem to fix it. I’m using Gmail on iPhone 4. Any updates/fixes?
I’ve experienced it. For me the phantom messages occur when a message has been deleted from the mail server but not from the Mail app. Sometimes I get 1/1/2000 for the date instead of 12/31/69.
When it kicks in, it also indicates double the number of unread messages.
Turning the phone off and back on fixes it, I don’t think I’d tried going to a different mailbox.
I have it: all are 12/31/69, No Sender, No subject. Mine began after I set up Google calendar push to iphone 4 and Hachi 2 calendar. I wonder if there could be a virus here? Is the iOS4 susceptible to viruses in apps? Is there a way to confirm safety of an app before downloading it? Thanks for bringing this to light.
Happens to me quite frequently as well. I’m using MobileMe, so it also affects Apple’s own email. I found a quick fix is going into the general settings and then into mail setting and toggling the option for organizing by thread. It doesn’t matter what it’s set to. Changing it to the opposite then going back to your mail will fix it for that instance. It will inevitably happen again, though. The most annoying part is I get notified I have new mail and then cannot read it because the new message is an empty one at the bottom of my list of messages with a date of 12/31/69 (epoch time for UNIX). Apple needs to fix this. Further, the messages don’t mark themselves read in a reliable way after I have opened them. It’s extremely annoying. The counter for new mail is typically always wrong and conflicts with what it shows in the actual mailbox because of all these issues. The old mail worked flawlessly. I don’t know how they couldn’t see these problems just using it for a few HOURS. It’s happened to me on my old 3G phones with iOS 4 and my new iPhone 4 with iOS 4 and iOS 4.0.1. I hope a fix is on the way really soon, Apple!
The new multi tasking feature in os4 seems to be the culprit on my iPhone. To cure the problem immediately I double-click the home button, select the mail app and hold until the red minus sign appears, then delete it from the multi tasker.
Mail is then back to normal
The multi tasking function is a very poor implementation, and is my first point of call when things go wrong
“To cure the problem immediately I double-click the home button, select the mail app and hold until the red minus sign appears, then delete it ”
Worked for me as I was experimenting this issue (ghost messages) on iPad 3 with iOS 5.1.
“To cure the problem immediately I double-click the home button, select the mail app and hold until the red minus sign appears, then delete it ”
That worked for me, I noticed this on my iphone with 5.1 as well, was somewhat confused until I came across this article.seems like nothing is ever truly permanently fixed nowadays!
since MAC OSX 10.6x I observed very frequent random hangs of Safari together with Mail. It often happened just after system wake up. Followed a restart required. I have done almost everything I could found out in tech supports, or chats. Nothing helped untill now. Although I use Belkin 7x USB hub (connected to one iMac port), with various current consumpting devices attached, I never connect external power supply to the hub. All hardware basically worked well. Just foe fun, two month ago I joined the hub to external 5 V power supply and mirracle happend! Two month I am living without any hangs and restarts. I do not any idea how Safari, or Mail both checks slightly overloaded USB port, I can only say, I just solved my big problem.