iCloud Mail Pushes New Emails But Not Read Status

[jason.siegel]

I have iCloud mail set up to push to my iPhone. It works great when I receive a new message, but if I read that message on my Mac rather than my phone, my phone doesn't update to reflect the read status unless I manually open the Mail app. So, sometimes I'll look at my phone and see the red icon indicating unread messages, only to open up the Mail app and see them disappear as read several hours ago. Is there any way to fix this?

 

[EdgardasB]

Same issue here. I have mba with mavericks latest version, iPhone 5S and iPad air 7.1.1 and email read status never sync for me while Apple "introduced" this feature with Mavericks?

 

[Kryckter]

I have iCloud mail set up to push to my iPhone. It works great when I receive a new message, but if I read that message on my Mac rather than my phone, my phone doesn't update to reflect the read status unless I manually open the Mail app. So, sometimes I'll look at my phone and see the red icon indicating unread messages, only to open up the Mail app and see them disappear as read several hours ago. Is there any way to fix this?

I have been having the same problems. I dont know of a fix and I am hoping someone chimes in that does, its annoying!

 

[SanjeevRana]

Its how Apple designed iCloud/MobileME email to be ...

This is the oldest thread I found for you :- https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1004786/

 

[jason.siegel]

Very weird. Why would they do that?

 

[SanjeevRana]

My thoughts ... iCloud is based on IMAP and the standard to allow push on it is using IDLE command. I believe that IMAP-IDLE protocol may be patented ... and Apple doesn't wanna use or lease/buy it.

 

[JackieInCo]

I have iCloud mail set up to push to my iPhone. It works great when I receive a new message, but if I read that message on my Mac rather than my phone, my phone doesn't update to reflect the read status unless I manually open the Mail app. So, sometimes I'll look at my phone and see the red icon indicating unread messages, only to open up the Mail app and see them disappear as read several hours ago. Is there any way to fix this?

It's worked this was for years/ Doubt they will change it.