iCloud Email Notifications Not Clearing on iPhone After Reading on Mac

[Phat^Trance]

When I receive an email on my iCloud account, I get a notification on my iPhone Lock Screen. However, if I read the email on my Mac using Apple Mail, the notification remains on my iPhone Lock Screen. Shouldn’t the notification disappear automatically once the email is read on another device?

The only way to remove the notification is to open the Mail app on my iPhone (push email).

For messages, the notification disappears automatically when I read them elsewhere, but this doesn’t seem to be the case for emails. Is there a way to fix this?

 

[adrianlondon]

iCloud uses Push (Apple on iOS have blocked "push" using IMAP IDLE for other providers - EU, are you listening? 😁 ) but refuses to push the read/unread status.

So ... you have to just wait, or force the update by opening Mail. It's a bug (in user speak) or "working as expected" (in Apple Feedback speak).

 

[Phat^Trance]

iCloud uses Push (Apple on iOS have blocked "push" using IMAP IDLE for other providers - EU, are you listening? 😁 ) but refuses to push the read/unread status.

So ... you have to just wait, or force the update by opening Mail. It's a bug (in user speak) or "working as expected" (in Apple Feedback speak).

oh that sucks, its been like this for me for years now, kinda annoying!

 

[exi]

Years ago, there used to be a post on Apple's own website that detailed this as intended behavior.

Apple's own Push Notification Service is capable of "fixing" this (read: Fastmail behaves as expected with Apple Mail because they implemented it with Apple's help), but it's what we're stuck with for the time being.

Maybe one day. This has been a thing for years.