It’s the intended behavior.
you’ll notice that it won’t update the badge until you either open the app, or there’s new mail “push” that has come in.
I wish they’d fix this already, but it’s been like this for as long as I can remember.
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Am I stupid or is Mail just not really good?
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you’ll notice that it won’t update the badge until you either open the app, or there’s new mail “push” that has come in.
I wish they’d fix this already, but it’s been like this for as long as I can remember.
This happens to me too, it’s really annoying, especially between 3 devices, phone tablet and laptop.
In my experience what you describe here is true for the Messages app only, and only on my laptop. That is, among my iphone ipad and macbook pro, the Messages stay synced just fine between phone/tablet, however, the laptop Messages “needs time to read that status“ or something.
However, unfortunately there is no “needs time” element for all 3 devices when it comes to the Mail app. Every, single, time, I have to open the email on every, single device. Super annoying, I don’t know why they haven’t fixed these over many many years now. .
I have a different problem with mail - no banner notifications, just badges. It is set to show banners in Notification Centre and Lock Screen but nothing.
I've been having constant on-and-off syncing issues with iCloud Mail for years. Eventually just switched to Gmail (using Mimestream on Mac and the Gmail app on iOS) and paying $1/mo for upgraded storage. Life is too short to deal with iCloud syncing issues.
No, both iOS and MacOS versions are free. Subscription only delivers some extra-"pro" features.
It’s been like this for years, it’s suppose to be like that, I’ve asked them.
The notification USED to go away on all the other devices when the mails been read on one device, but not anymore.
I do not like it.
When I open Mail on the iPhone, it updates after a few seconds. It depends on the connection speed. Yeah, it's kind of annoying, especially if it takes a few seconds to update, and some days it takes quite a while to update.
That and rules staying on the system they were created on is a PITA! I did try a different mail app, and it went so poorly, I went back and just grin and bear it... 😬
That and rules staying on the system they were created on is a PITA! I did try a different mail app, and it went so poorly, I went back and just grin and bear it... 😬
You may be stupid, I cannot say, but it is not because you realized that mail.app is bad
This is a problem with a lot of apps if you use them on several Apple devices. I have two iPads in addition to an iPhone, and often have to dismiss the same notification on all three of them.
There’s also the issue that if you get notifications from an app and then go into the app and read whatever the notification was about within the app, so that the app is aware that you noticed whatever the notification was about (for example messages in Discord being marked as read), the notifications still remain undismissed in Notification Center. Apparently there is no backchannel from app to notifications that lets an app dismiss specific notifications sent by it.
Overall the notification system leaves much to be desired.
On iPad there’s the same problem. One workaround is to open the print preview, which you can zoom.
In 2022 when everything else syncs across iCloud to your devices, why can't Mail? It's such a pain to have to set up all the accounts across your multiple devices, setting preferences, signatures, smart folders etc. It has annoyed me for ages.
Mimestream is awesome. Highly recommend. Yes it's still in beta but really works great and the Dev is still adding features most requested. I'll be happy to pay for it when that time comes.
Afaik no. Even if there’s one, google would probably just wrap a chromium inside an electron shell claiming “native app” while what you are actually using is the web version anyways.