I have not had this phone all that long and know very little about iPhones, any advice would be much appreciated. I used to be able to down load to my iPhone if I was checking for a urgent expected email, and then answer it, and when I got home I down loaded it again and could have a proper read with a bigger screen if I wanted or just deleted it. If the Mail app is not set up properly, it may lead to mails disappearing from iPhone inbox. When you action an email on one device, the change is reflected on the server, and communicated to the email clients of all other devices using that account. iPhone allows you to customize the Mail app with several mail settings. Emails are in an unexpected folder Search for them - Locate misplaced emails using our basic or advanced search options. I have spent a couple of hours on line looking for a solution including this forum and others, but all the ones with missing emails are syncing their email with their computer or on line email like yahoo or Gmail, which I am not, I dont have it synced, Relax, you can check the possible reasons as follows before fixing email disappearing from iPhone issue. I don't, however, understand why a small number of my emails (both from a hotmail account and from a gmail account) disappear from my iPhone after I have read them on my iPhone. Yes I have looked at the trash can settings but that only deletes if I put email in the trash can, that is the only setting for time limits as to when to delete, I cannot find options for the in box like that. Why does a very small number of emails I read on my phone disappear As I understand it, there can be a problem synching emails across different devices. Since then I have put the email account back on and it is sending and receiving fine, the only problem is when I go back to see an email its gone, and not just one email all of them, it never did this before and I cannot see a setting to get it back to not deleting. I have an iPhone 4s I have had it configured before for my private email and work but removed my work one, any email I received on my iPhone, stayed on there and when I was ready I could delete them if I wanted to, then at one point my private email started to play up in that it would not send email only receive.Īfter numerous attempts at changing settings to try and fix this I deleted the account from the phone and started from scratch.