Gmail - Push Email

[photogpab]

I just added my gmail account to my iPhone and I set 'Fetch New Data' to 'Push'. But it's not pushing. When someone sends me an email I don't get the alert. Only when I manually open the mail app does it download all my unread messages.

Help? Am I doing something wrong?

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Did a little extra research and seems I needed to use the 'Microsoft exchange' setting instead of 'gmail' for push to actually work. Weird.

 

[mrapplegate]

I just added my gmail account to my iPhone and I set 'Fetch New Data' to 'Push'. But it's not pushing. When someone sends me an email I don't get the alert. Only when I manually open the mail app does it download all my unread messages.

Help? Am I doing something wrong?

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Did a little extra research and seems I needed to use the 'Microsoft exchange' setting instead of 'gmail' for push to actually work. Weird.

Yes, you figured it out. Nothing new for iOS 6 , that has been the way to always get "PUSH" gmail. IMAP is the second best option.

 

[Doc. Caliban]

The Exchange workaround comes at a price ... missing messages, no flagging, etc.

It's ridiculous that there has to be a workaround. We're over a decade into the 21st century, and we're supposed to believe that two of the biggest players in the industry can't get a simple client-server email feature to work?

This doesn't work because someone's marketing department doesn't want it to work. Period.

 

[FoxFifth]

This won't help if you need or prefer to use Apple's iOS mail app but I use the Gmail app instead and Push works perfectly with it: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gmail/id422689480?mt=8

 

[HowEver]

That's what works for me.

This won't help if you need or prefer to use Apple's iOS mail app but I use the Gmail app instead and Push works perfectly with it: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gmail/id422689480?mt=8

 

[Abazigal]

I just added my gmail account to my iPhone and I set 'Fetch New Data' to 'Push'. But it's not pushing. When someone sends me an email I don't get the alert. Only when I manually open the mail app does it download all my unread messages.

Help? Am I doing something wrong?

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Did a little extra research and seems I needed to use the 'Microsoft exchange' setting instead of 'gmail' for push to actually work. Weird.

Alternatively, fetch works as well.

 

[ravenvii]

This won't help if you need or prefer to use Apple's iOS mail app but I use the Gmail app instead and Push works perfectly with it: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gmail/id422689480?mt=8

I'm still waiting for them to add multiple account support.

 

[Abba 701]

A little off topic buts have noticed that the Push Gmail iPhone app has disappeared from the App Store.And not only that it will not restore the appeven if you had it on an icloud backup.Anyone know why this is?