Since upgrading to iOS 18 on my iPhone 14, when searching in Mail, the results are not returning in date order. Emails from 2021 onwards are showing first and then I have to scroll to find the most recent emails, which are then showing in ascending order. Any ideas?
iPhone 13, iOS 18
OMG, the latest iOS update might have changed something and I have found a way to get things sorted. When you do a search for emails where there are years of them, you now get an initial result that has a disclaimer at the bottom saying that “Some results may not appear. Mail downloads and organizes messages when iPad is locked, charging and connected to WiFi. Large accounts like this may take longer.” The search result pulls more old emails and they appear in different order as more are found, putting the newest lower in the result, as before, and you can’t find what you are looking for. BUT if you give it a bit of time and then change the search at the top from “From” to “To” and then back again to “From” the messages now appear in order from newest to oldest! The number of messages that you have from the sender is why people have said that different things work in the past - They must have been searching accounts that are smaller. I’ve tried this toggling now a few times and it has worked every time!
Still an issue and selecting “most recent messages on top” doesn’t fix the problem.
Tried your suggestion and it seems to have worked. Thank you.
Your suggestion worked for me.
i see a lot of the same problem- email search not showing in date sequence- but no apparent solution.
Where are the solutions or is there no fix?
Not for me…
Nope, if you search someone where there are yrs of old emails, those suggestions (list and most recent) don’t work. The Apple support person supposedly working on this with me has gone silent.
Go to Settings>Apps>Mail
I am using iPhone 16 pro
IOS 18.3.2
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I should add that it occurs when I do a search for email from a particular person.
This worked for me! It was already turned on but I toggled it off and back on and they are sorting correctly and STAYING that way. Thanks!
That works - hopefully they won’t break it again
Thanks
Thanks! This did it. What a relief. But why is this not toggled on by default? It must have driven millions to madness, by now...
This did it! Thanks!
Where do you find the toggle? Where do you do this? I wanna try it, but I don’t know where to do it.
Mail search on iPhone not sorting by date
