There are a lot of different ways that iPhone and iPad users can check their emails, either by using one of any number of apps or by using the device's own web browser. Part of understanding the missing or disappearing iPhone email problem comes to examining the nature of the issue. Fortunately, there are a few solutions to the iPhone missing or disappearing email problem, the likes of which are fairly straightforward. The messages aren't accidentally deleted or archived they aren't failing to be sent or getting lost in the digital aether they're simply not appearing when summoned. One such problem being faced by iOS users is the iPhone and iPad's penchant for disappearing emails. none relevant or helpful to the real problem: disappearance from the server (including Trash and Spam mailboxes, of course) that is set on my account to send all messages without spam filtering.One of the more frustrating parts of using a mobile phone - or even a tablet or PC, for that matter - is encountering an issue that seems to defy logic. Heidi's answers refer to smartphones, caches, cookies, app troubleshooting, etc.

AT&T email tech support was clueless and promised to have an escalation specialist call me back - they never did so (of course do they ever?). All are using IMAP, and the only feature they have in common is they connect to the AT&T/Yahoo server as a email address is the issue, so the problem must lie there. Nor are missing emails related to the email client in use since mine disappear simultaneously from the K-9 client on my smartphone and tablet and also from my desktop client, Thunderbird. Nor are disappearing mails necessarily related to using a smartphone - it can/does happen looking a the same inbox on a tablet and on a desktop. Caches and cookies related to visiting websites have nothing to do with emails disappearing from the Inbox (or other folders).

Why do emails disappear from my iphone