IPhone checks mail randomly
Just over the past couple of months, about 1 out of 10 times after I unlock my 3G iPhone, it checks my email in the background without my entering the Mail application.
In Settings I have check mail set to manual in all occurrences. I have had an iPhone since Day 1 and have always had mail on manual check. This has not been a problem until recently.
The result is miserably slow performance while mail is checking in background.
For example, just now:
1. iPhone not in use all afternoon. I pick it up, press the round button, then unlock it.
2. Press Phone icon, find contact, touch phone number to initiate call
3. During call, I have to check my Calendar. I press round button, but it takes 10 second to bring me to Main Menu screen.
4. I press Calendar icon, and it takes 20 seconds to display my calendar
5. Just as my Calendar displays, iPhone "dings" with incoming email alert tone
6. I finish phone call. Open Mail application, and sure enough, I have new mail.
In this case and all others, I never touch the Mail icon and have all settings to check mail manually.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
Is this a bug or a feature?
Almost.
The iPhone is designed in nature to be 'always on' i.e. connected to the internet and active all the time. This particular topic has been raised before and I recall had to be 'pruned' of some of the more vociferous comments.
It is as it is, and more sending of feedback is the best option as without such feedback in volume, Apple are not likely to view it as a significant requirement. I do not have knowledge of Apple's plans but given most people have data plans such that email volume is not a price sensitive issue, it will in my view, be way down the list on development priorities.
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