iOS 18.3.2 Broke iCloud Mail Delivery

[MacRumors]

The iOS 18.3.2 update that Apple released last week appears to have broken iCloud Mail for some users. There are multiple complaints on Reddit and the MacRumors forums from users who say that iCloud Mail is not able to push new iCloud emails to their iPhones after the iOS 18.3.2 update.

Affected users say that despite having the correct settings enabled, new iCloud emails are not showing up in their inboxes until a manual refresh. From a Reddit user:

I'm experiencing an issue with iCloud Mail on my iPhone after updating to iOS 18.3.2. New emails are not being pushed to my device, even though all the correct settings are enabled and it had been working fine on 18.3.1. Manually refreshing the Mail app does retrieve new emails, but they do not arrive automatically via push.

Given this issue appears to be tied to the iOS 18.3.2 update, I assume it's a bug. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?

Push is a feature that's available for some email services like iCloud Mail. It is meant to deliver incoming emails as soon as they arrive, so users see new messages right away. Other accounts use Fetch, which means that the iPhone checks the email server every so often for new emails. It appears neither Push nor Fetch is working for some iCloud Mail users, based on the complaints.

Push email from other providers like Microsoft appears to be working with no problem, so the issue is limited to iCloud Mail. Some users have also seen the same lack of Mail push with iOS 18.4. Given the number of users affected, Apple is likely aware of the issue, and hopefully a fix will be coming in the near future.

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[Mr_Brightside_@]

When they fix this, can they fix the badges issue?

 

[Sheepish-Lord]

Apple Mail has always been trash for 3rd party accounts due to "fetch" and now their own client is broke. Apple really does have some archaic services.

 

[smithrh]

Working here just fine

 

[apple2me]

On the other hand, it seems more energy efficient. I am noticing my battery is showing less usage at this time of the day compare to before this update.

 

[sw1tcher]

Push is a feature that's available for some email services like iCloud Mail. It is meant to deliver incoming emails as soon as they arrive, so users see new messages right away. Other accounts use Fetch, which means that the iPhone checks the email server every so often for new emails. It appears neither Push nor Fetch is working for some iCloud Mail users, based on the complaints.

These complainers need to stop trying to make Fetch happen. It's not going to happen.

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[singletary]

I wasn’t getting push emails for a while after the update, but once I noticed I restarted my phone and they’ve been pushed just fine ever since.

 

[Slix]

I've had this issue intermittently for like, 4 years on iOS. Works perfectly when I delete or get new mail on my Mac, but half the time my phone doesn't want to get new mail unless I open the app, and it doesn't automatically update the unread count when a message is deleted on another device until I open the app.

 

[HJM.NL]

Seems like there are really some big problems going on in the software department. Every dot x release solves one problem and introduces four others.

Get rid of Cook and bring a real visionair back. Not this bean counter.

 

[AppleFeller]

Not having issues with mail on my end but I also did just restore my iPhone last week and didn’t use a backup to setup. So go figure. Apple is testing in perfect conditions and seems the variables have run away with them….idk

 

[UliBaer]

Please wake me up, when iOS 18 is finally ready for reliable use on a daily driver...

 

[mulatosnarf]

Would explain why mine wasn’t affected I made mine fetch

 

[Skb3735]

Same issue for me since upgrading

 

[MrRom92]

but I get people jumping down my throat when I say that iOS 18 is the buggiest iOS has ever been, and that every point update manages to completely break some other core functionality of the device

 

[Z6128]

I thought I was going crazy. All of a sudden I’d have a ton of emails at once. Here’s hoping a fix comes eventually.

 

[scrapesleon]

apple gonna reassure the team that it just works

 

[It’s always something]

apple gonna reassure the team that it just works

And they think we’re going to love it.

 

[JapanApple]

No problem here. working as well as always.

 

[AgentOSX]

I have a Custom Domain and this has been a problem since .2.1. A restart makes it work for a day or two.

 

[djshack]

Same here, broken for iCloud Mail and Fastmail in iOS Mail.

 

[AgentOSX]

Same here, broken for iCloud Mail and Fastmail in iOS Mail.

I was literally composing a question this answers... I was winding about the mix of platforms and services and if the same thing happens with different combinations of apps and services. Seems maybe the issue is iCloud itself and not iOS? Maybe.... not sure but definitely worth looking into. Thanks for the pre-emptive input.

 

[djshack]

I was literally composing a question this answers... I was winding about the mix of platforms and services and if the same thing happens with different combinations of apps and services. Seems maybe the issue is iCloud itself and not iOS? Maybe.... not sure but definitely worth looking into. Thanks for the pre-emptive input.

To the contrary, this to me confirms it’s an iOS issue, not an iCloud issue, as it happens with two different mail services in the Mail app.

 

[Dark_Omen]

More broken apps I see. Good thing I've switched everything to the apps Google provides. Bought a new laptop today --- ASUS Rog gaming laptop. AMD Ryzen 9 w/4060RTX graphics processor and 3k OLED display. It costs less than a Macbook Pro and the software runs better, and also, I can play all of my XBox games on it.

Hopefully more people wake up and realize Apple's developers are people that don't know how to code properly.

Only one piece left to rid of Apple entirely... A Galaxy S25 Ultra/S25+. Can't wait.

I was a big Apple fan but I can't put up with Grandma Cook's shenanigans anymore.

 

[AppleFeller]

Rewatching Sept 08 Apple event and Steve literally on stage was showing off fixes in 2.1 just fixes and performance improvements, less crashes. During a keynote a .1 update.

Apple just give us 18.6 at wwdc for heavens sake because I don’t trust them to not push out 19 and keep with the same buggy messes we have had for too long.

 

[antareus]

Maybe a rogue Apple dev is trying to bring Steve back to life by invoking his anger at iPhone email handling again