Emails disappeared

Remove your email account and set it up again

Make sure that all of your emails are there or make sure that your email is saved somewhere other than your device. On your device, go to Settings > Mail, then tap Accounts. Tap the email account that you want to remove. Tap Delete Account.

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1. When you make an iOS or iPadOS backup in iCloud or iTunes, it backs up your mail settings, but not your email. ... 
2. Make sure your device is connected to the Internet.
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this happened to me this morning.

all emails in apple mail dated between 4/2/21 + 5/11/21 disappeared from iphone, icloud, ipad, imac etc.

i hadn't changed any settings.

not sure deleting my apple email account and trying to reestablish would help as the missing emails are not on icloud.

help!

This happened to me this morning. ALL messages older than 1 week in gmail have disappeared. This included all messages with a gmail 'tag' (or important messages I've had sorted into folders/tags for years). I JUST looked at some of these last night, then today they all disappeared this morning. (Ive searched gmail via my laptop, checked gmail settings, checked in icloud, rebooted phone, removed accounts & added back)

I called Apple Support and they were able to retrieve all and I mean all of the missing email. I was missing 20-25 emails but received over 4,000, I had to delete them again but at least I got back what was lost. I noticed them missing after Apple and issues with mail. You might try and give them a call

Correction to earlier post: all Gmail messages that were older than 90 days disappeared, even ones saved by way of tags/folders. I’ve spent hours on the phone with Apple Support to no avail. Plus, as I watched them disappear I quickly went to my back up settings to turn them off only to see it backed up on its own just seconds prior. Why would it do that? My first thought- it was intentionally written in the latest 14.6 “bug fixes” to reduce stored data- funny how it only happened to Gmail messages, their biggest competitor & arch nemesis. Go figure, Apple Support blamed Google/Gmail however I KNOW it was the mail app, I hadn’t changed ANY Gmail settings, and this was the first time I added the account to the Mail app. Ive lost so many important messages- evidentiary emails for a criminal case, legal docs/messages, so many receipts, all tax documents for the last 10 years, passwords, photos, messages from lost loved ones, etc. I think I saved most of the attachments but the message contents & ability to search for them by date/subject or view contents of a saved folder are lost. Plus between Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, etc who knows where tf they are. It’s devastating. My only next step is to contact a lawyer but slim chance there.

Apple Support was useless.

I know one thing though, I will never buy another Apple product again and am in the process of switching everything to android.

Same here

Open up your email and go to your mailbox and tap on it. In the lower left hand corner there is a filter, tap it, and your emails should reappear. Let us know

Barb

Go your email and tap on your mailbox. In the lower left hand corner there is a filter. Try tapping on it once and see if they come back.

hi barb--

thanks for suggestion but no filter was involved.

email disappeared, unrecoverable

Did all that- didn’t work

Same- no filter issues for me either

Yikes, I feel your pain. I have lost messages, but nothing like that. So sorry

Thanks, much appreciated. 😣

How is Google mail Apples fault?

Because the Gmail messages disappeared from the iPhone ‘Mail’ app, which was a permanent delete from the Gmail server- the iCloud messages also in the mail app did not disappear