The "eternal unread e-mail" and other flaws in iOS 8

ios 8.1.3

iOS 8 has not come to be what many of us expected. Last June, Apple presented the latest important developments in its operating system during the World Developers Conference 2014. On stage we saw how this version was going to take a step towards customizing our devices and integrating elements of home automation. Four months after its launch, iOS 8 has not fulfilled what was announced and it presents the odd problem that is causing great frustration among its users.

We begin by mentioning the annoying error of «eternal unread e-mail«. After installing iOS 8.1.3 on my device, I have noticed that some problems are not fixed and others from the past return. This is one of them. No matter how many times I refresh the native Mail application, despite having read all the emails, it will always mark one as unread. This seems to happen only in the email account linked to Gmail and it is not the first time it has happened in an iOS version, but it has an easy solution.

To remove the notification icon, all we have to do is go to our email through the Mac and we will see how an email appears that has been marked as unread (even though we have read it on the iPhone) . So that this notification disappear everywhere, mark it on your Mac as read mail. It is an annoying step, but a temporary solution.

Another bug that has been playing for several versions of iOS 8 is related to sound. Has it ever happened to you that when you are listening to music, all of a sudden the volume is lowered by itself without having received any kind of notification? It is a rather annoying error, which occurs in any application that involves audio, be it Spotify or YouTube. The volume decreases automatically and the only thing we can do to fix it is pause the playback and resume it so that the sound returns to its "natural state".

In Apple official forums discontent seems to reign. iOS 8.1.3 should have fixed Wifi and Bluetooth crash issues, but these persist.

Have you experienced any noticeable bug with iOS 8.1.3? We encourage you to leave your comments on this article.


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  1.   Kimble said

    It is time to unite all of us and sue Apple and when you have to pay more than a billion for claims, you will understand, these companies are hit for $ which is where it hurts the most

  2.   Ruben said

    WTF? What faults are they talking about? Nothing like that happens to me, these guys are really screwed up! Since I have my new iPhone (it has not happened to me with the previous versions either) I have not seen any of those errors that they say in this article! IF YOU DON'T LIKE APPLE USA ANDROID (the operating system for conformists)

    1.    Shell said

      Conformist is thinking that because something doesn't happen to you it doesn't happen to anyone else and then saying that if you don't like something, go the other way without claiming.

      I like Apple, and although these errors mentioned in the article have not happened to me, I have no reason to doubt that they can happen to others. People have every right to request solutions as they pay for their devices / software.

  3.   vicente said

    Since I installed the ios 8, the camera does not work on my iphone 5

  4.   Uruguayan said

    Something that I noticed new of ios 8.1.3 (perhaps it already existed and I did not see it) is that when the iphone dims the screen and then turns it off, if we put our finger on the touch id, the screen returns to its normal brightness.

  5.   Miguel said

    Since I installed iOS 8 I started having problems with iMessage. First they were NOT activated and now they are activated but it does not register the country code +58 in my case. This causes that when I send an iMessage it reaches the other person +41 42 480 85 1 and does not identify my name since that is not my number. The correct thing is that it was +58 4142480851. Someone else happens to him? Greetings.

    1.    RastaKen said

      And I thought it was the only one that happened to that, since I bought iPhone 5 I had left it with iOS 6.0.1 because I was satisfied with its operation and did not present any problem, even with Jailbreak, it occurred to me to update to iOS 8.1.2 The same thing happens to me that you comment on the iMessage, and it is only with Movistar, with Digitel there are no problems with that change of digits.

    2.    Carlos said

      corduroy, did you solve the problem?

    3.    Tyrone said

      Yes, it is terrible. I have tried everything and I have not been able to solve it !!!… I have seen what happens to everyone in Venezuela except for those I know with iPhone 6, but from the iPhone 5s downwards it happens to everyone !!! renders iMessage and FaceTime useless with the phone number. You have to use the apple id to be able to use them.

  6.   Byron said

    The problem that appeared to me is that I was on a call and out of nowhere it hung up and when I see the screen of my phone a message appears that says:
    "Iphone is desabled" try again for 1 minute. And apart from that I do not know if I am the only one but the battery now if it goes down too fast more than before and it keeps giving me the same error that the battery is low and when I connect it it suddenly goes up to 40%

  7.   Mario said

    That eternal e-mail or ghost mail. It does not happen to me, but what if it happens to my iPad even after having installed 8.1.3, is that I have FaceTime calls, that although I already check, the notification does not disappear, even if I restart the system or the application.

    1.    SAPIC said

      Mario. Have you tried sliding your finger to the left to delete the calls you want to disappear one by one? This is how I just did it when I saw your comment since it also happened to me and I did not give it importance, I thought I would open some way to eliminate the notices .. 🙂
      That's it. Problem solved!!

  8.   iphonemac said

    Have you not noticed increased battery consumption? With my iPhone 6 Plus yes, I did update, not restore. I had and have 5,5GB free out of a total of 16GB. I do not have Apps in 2 plane normally, and throughout the night today it has dropped from 100 to 92%. Without touching it and in airplane mode. I notice that before it did not go down so fast ...

  9.   Carlos said

    The bugs appear depending on the configuration and the apps we have installed ... I don't have any of those bugs on a 6 Plus but I'm sure many people have them ... Maybe it's not always an apple bug, and if it's an app or mail server .

  10.   alex platinum said

    It gave me problems with the wi-fi connection, I had to restore the connection settings, the rotation in camera is slow and it takes time to light up the screen when trying to unlock my iPad mini

  11.   gabrielort said

    I have the same problem from ios 8 to ios 8. 1. 3, the problem is with the screen rotation that many times stays stuck and I must close the app to fix it! The other error is that I give it, the times I give it, the control center does not come out when the screen is locked! but that only with the 6 plus since my wife in the 6 does not give them those errors!

  12.   Mario said

    Hello as iOS 8.1.3 the battery of the iPhone 6 plus drops very quickly which did not happen with the 8.1.2 I do not know if someone else has this problem greetings.

  13.   adri_059 said

    I am Apple fans and a loyal follower, but when it comes to admitting mistakes, you have to say them; my IPhone 6 has also had problems with the ghost mail and it still persists with the last update; this IOS 8 has not been the best; Hopefully the next one if I correct them. Gentlemen, remember that nothing in this life is perfect !!! and mistakes are human… so let's not criticize better, let's look for solutions and give suggestions to others, even contribute to Apple itself.

  14.   Jose Antonio Paras placeholder image said

    It is crap instead of helping to correct errors it gives you more problems, the truth is I advise you not to update pure errors and failures give the disks failed updates Apple and that hurts being an important brand

  15.   Ckarlosh Thouxscki said

    Mine is still cool is a 5

  16.   Sergio said

    I'd be happy if we could downgrade to IOS 7.x

  17.   Julian Eduardo Torres placeholder image said

    In my 5s the only thing I have noticed is the brightness on the screen, I feel that if I put it at 100% right now, it is as if I had put it at 50% in a previous iOS version ... Does the same thing happen to someone else?

  18.   Rulo said

    That of the eternal e-mail happens to me with the google mail application, it always marks it for me, in the native apple sometimes it takes time for the unread to disappear but then it is removed. What I don't understand is the small lag when I turn on the phone and go to the home screen, the animation has a lag since 8.0. and also suddenly there are times when the battery drains faster than emptying a bottle of water ... for no reason.

  19.   Escarly pilier said

    With ios 8.1.3 I noticed that the battery of my iphone 6 lasted 1 hour and a half less of use than with ios 8.1.2, I immediately tested that for two full charges, I returned to the ios 8.1.2 version.

  20.   Edgar domingo said

    I have not had any problems so far everything runs very well

  21.   Iris said

    Am I the only one whose phone locks after I have one or two missed calls and the black screen that says CANCEL and ACCEPT appears? It has happened to me in the 4S and in the 5 regardless of the updates, and it is only "fixed" by turning off or restarting the phone.

    1.    alex martinz said

      Go to settings-phone-applications sim- in my case I am clear then clear clear warn… .. Das accept and solved. Good luck greetings.

  22.   George said

    Ami interactive notifications do not work on iphone 6 ios 8.1.3

  23.   Rouse said

    It happens to me about the volume that is lowered only when listening to music and I enter an app or out of nowhere it turns down ... What can be done ??? Is very annoying

  24.   Victor Acuna said

    The same thing happens to me and my girlfriend with our Iphone 6
    The music is suddenly turned off when Spotify is working and even when I have been listening to my own music stored on the iPhone. It also happens to us that having the screen locked and wanting to go to the notification center (swipe up) it is difficult for it to slide, we must try and as the fifth time it slides up to see it.
    Greetings from Chile

  25.   Zoa said

    I have just noticed that when listening to music when pausing and playing again the volume is lowered and when I get a notification the same sound increases it and thus I pause and play again it is lowered to yes successively. is there anything to fix that or just wait for the new IOS? XD

  26.   Lucia said

    I have an iPhone 5c and the last thing they mentioned happens to me, that I'm listening to music and out of nowhere the volume is lowered. It's very annoying because I have to pause or change the volume of the music all the time. In fact, I hardly listen to music on my iPhone anymore because the volume problem is making me tired. I'm still happy with the iOS, the only thing that doesn't suit me is that, the rest is perfect 🙂

  27.   juan carlos said

    The same thing happens to me with the 5s when listening to music the volume is lowered out of nowhere, I came to think that it was a virus (we all know that it is almost impossible), and the truth is quite annoying, and even worse if we know if they will correct this problem with IOS 9,
    regards

  28.   Jose Luis said

    And in the unread mails that we do that we do not have Apple Mail?

  29.   Santiago said

    the volume of reproduction of videos received by whatsapp, message notification, etc… is lowered to me.

  30.   José said

    Music still happens to me and I already have iOS 9.0.1 installed, I had iOS 8.2 and it did not give me that problem until now and it is too annoying that in every video or music on spotify or tidal, even in The iPhone Music App happens to me, it is only solved by advancing the track or video a few seconds and it is frustrating, does someone keep happening or have the solution to this? I would thank you a lot.

    1.    juan carlos said

      friend Jose, try closing the Facebook application with multitasking,
      The same thing happened to me as you and this was the solution that I discovered, when the volume is lowered, close Facebook,

      tell me how you are doing .. greetings

  31.   Martin Dario said

    It keeps happening to me and it takes time to disappear and I have iOS 9.3.2.