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iPhone 12 Pro new to 12 Pro: How to make my Mail account Push (there's no push option in Settings)

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Hi all.
I'm really loving my new iPhone 12 Pro, but there's one thing that I haven't been able to do.
I want my email to get 'pushed' to me as it arrives, rather than having to 'fetch' it when I turn on my phone.

I've googled this, and done what I've been told to do.
I go to Settings>Mail>Accounts>in the Fetch New Data entry, Push is selected.
Good so far it seems to me.
But when I open this setting, I see my iCloud account and my Sympatico account, and they're both marked as Fetch.
I want Sympatico (which is the Mail account that is use, and is IMAP by the way) to be Push, but when I tap Fetch, in hopes of getting an option to switch to Push, there's no option to do that.
Interestingly, if I tap on the iCloud account, I have the option of Push, Fetch or Manual.
Why doesn't my Sympatico Mail account give me the same options? Does anyone know?
Thanks for any advice,
malch
 
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The only way I have found to have email pushed to me is by using a Gmail account with the Gmail app. It will not push using the Apple email app. You might want to consider using Gmail if you have such an account. Outlook may work too but I never tried it.

On the other hand, one can have email fetched every 15 minutes with the Apple Mail app. After thinking about this, I concluded that since I prefer Apple's Mail I use it and just deal with the 15 minutes. I don't find it all that important to get email faster than that and if I have to for some reason, it does come through immediately just by opening the Mail app.

Keep in mind that push notifications make more use of the battery.
 
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jay, thank you so very much for your reply. It completely answers my question and explains everything!
I will stick with 'fetch', and not think about it any longer.
I am curious, though, as to why Apple would limit the function of its own Mail app. But of course maybe it's not Apple that's stopping Mail from getting mail pushed. Maybe its my provider. And maybe some next iteration of something-or-other will change this. In the meantime, I'm fine with fetch! Thanks again, malch
 
malch said:
jay, thank you so very much for your reply. It completely answers my question and explains everything!
I will stick with 'fetch', and not think about it any longer.
I am curious, though, as to why Apple would limit the function of its own Mail app. But of course maybe it's not Apple that's stopping Mail from getting mail pushed. Maybe its my provider. And maybe some next iteration of something-or-other will change this. In the meantime, I'm fine with fetch! Thanks again, malch
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In case of Gmail at least, it's Google that limits that ability on Apple devices.
 
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Yes, I am not sure it's Apple doing the limiting. I have heard that google mail will not push using an email client other than Gmail. Perhaps your email provider is doing the same thing. I just know push works with Gmail on an iphone so I have used it when I've needed it.
 
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In the past (iOS12) I was able to receive PUSH for my gmail account if I setup forwarding to my iCloud. Since iOS 13, this little "loophole" has been closed, and I notice that I get no PUSH at all if setup this way. As soon as I removed my gmail from forwarding, the iCloud address began to PUSH again. Gmail will only PUSH through the app as others have stated. I was hoping maybe iOS14 would allow PUSH for other mail services, but to no avail. It seems to be a third party issue, as iCloud PUSH works as intended.
 
johnmarki said:
In the past (iOS12) I was able to receive PUSH for my gmail account if I setup forwarding to my iCloud. Since iOS 13, this little "loophole" has been closed, and I notice that I get no PUSH at all if setup this way. As soon as I removed my gmail from forwarding, the iCloud address began to PUSH again. Gmail will only PUSH through the app as others have stated. I was hoping maybe iOS14 would allow PUSH for other mail services, but to no avail. It seems to be a third party issue, as iCloud PUSH works as intended.
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I only have one account Icloud and a don't receive push notifications.
 
I use Spark Mail for my Gmail account. Simply because it “pushes” my mail to me and the widget displays my 3 recent emails (unread).
 
Avokadik said:
but why? Icloud mail supports push services. All versions since 7 till 14.3 push doesn't work and in the settings we have push/fetch
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I can’t answer that. As far as I know the Apple native mail app never had push. At least for the time I had an iPhone(s) which is the past 5 years.
 
Remington Steel said:
I can’t answer that. As far as I know the Apple native mail app never had push. At least for the time I had an iPhone(s) which is the past 5 years.
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in my mind, it's incorrect. Can you help me with this problem (send a feedback with not working push to the Apple support)
 
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