iPhone Mail Badges Not Showing (Missing) In iOS 16? [Fix!]
Last updated on November 10th, 2022 at 04:49 am
Posted in Errors and Issues by Mike on September 11, 2022Are Mail badges not showing after iOS 16 update? Is your iPhone missing email badges altogether? The Badges field isn’t available in Settings, so there’s no way to turn them ON or OFF? Here is what you can do to fix it.
Mail Badge Not Showing In iOS 16
The problem has been reported by Ezra on our iOS 16 RC review page:
“Badges for unread emails not showing for mail app, can’t find them in settings either!”
We couldn’t replicate this issue at the time of writing, but I’ve managed to find a similar complaint on Reddit.
Are you experiencing the same issue? Share it in the comments as we’re still trying to asses how widespread the missing badges in Mail are.
How To Fix Mail Badges Not Available
First, you should open Settings -> Mail -> Notifications and turn ON Badges. However, users affected by this bug, are missing the Badges field, thus not able to enable or disable the feature.
If that’s your case too, we recommend to reinstall Mail using the offloading app technique:
- In Settings browse for General -> iPhone Storage -> Mail.
- Tap Offload app.
- Be patient, and use the Reinstall app option that shows up after the app is removed.
Fact: Reinstalling Mail should bring back the Badges option in Settings. Does this work? Share it in the comments.
Update: Apparently, you have to delete Mail completely, reboot iPhone, install Mail back from the App Store and re-enable your email accounts for the Mail badges to come back. (Thanks David for confirming!)
Update 2: The missing Mail badge seems to be triggered when a new Apple Watch is paired, as confirmed by Kyle.
Are you experiencing any other Mail issues in iOS 16? Use the comments to ask for help.
Related: You might be interested to check out the new Mail features coming in iOS 16:
– How to Undo Send in Mail.
– How to send Mail later.
– Email reply remainders to be reminded to reply to handle an email later on.
Me too, opened a feedback
FB11510142
Thanks for confirming and for sharing the feedback number.
Won’t fix
Have you deleted Mail app completely and reinstalled?
Mine are not showing up either. I deleted the app, restarted, and reinstalled. Instead, it no longer shows the name of the sender or the subject. When will it be resolved?
I did that and I have the same issue now. Sender and subject are no longer showing. I can’t confirm that this fixed the badge issue.
Have you updated to iOS 16.2?
https://www.iphonetricks.org/ios-16-2-issues-features-bugs-fixed-problems/
Hasn’t fixed the badge issue though.
In this case you have to delete Mail app and reinstall.
Same problem. Please fix.
Thanks for confirming. It’s been reported to Apple.
Did work either
Sorry to hear this. We’ll update the article as soon as a better fix becomes available.
This did not work for me.
Still no badges on the mail notifications screen in settings.
Removing entirely, rebooting, redownloading from appstore, reenabling email accounts worked.
Thanks for the fix David. We appreciate your contribution. I will update it in the main content of the article!
Thx David, the same fix has worked for me as well. Offloading the app unfortunately didn’t work
Hi, Mine same issue im facing right now, there’s numbers on the Badge of the mail. Please do help us😞
Delete and reinstall Mail app. It should work.
Nope. Didn’t work for me either. This all started when I paired my Apple Watch.
Sorry to hear this. What happens if you unpair and re-pair Apple Watch?
Exact same thing for me!
Have you tried deleting and reinstalling Mail app?
Same for me. This happened when I paired my Apple Watch. The above article didnt work for me.
Me too how do I fix this?
Most users have confirmed that deleting the Mail app completely (not offloading) and reinstalling has worked for them.
Same scenario. I paired an Apple watch a day or two ago and since then the badge options aren’t available.
Delete the Mail app and reinstall. It should fix it.
This worked for me! At first, the badges were still missing. However, when I opened mail for the first time (after deleting and reinstalling), it asked me if I wanted to enable notifications and I clicked yes. The badges are there and the option is available in the Mail settings as well. Thanks!
Great. Thanks for the feedback. Enjoy iOS 16!
Worked for me . Also happened when I synched with my applewatch
Thanks for confirming Steve. Glad it did.
THANKS IT WORKED FOR ME AFTER DELETED THE APP AND REBOOTING AND REINSTALLATION.
You’re welcome. Glad it did. Thanks for confirming.
If you delete the Mail app do you LOSE all of your preferences and account things like signatures and various active accounts added etc?
You should get them back when you re-add the accounts.
This fix worked for me – had to uninstall and reinstall. Thanks so much for the help.
You’re welcome. Thanks for confirming.
Offloading didn’t work but reinstalling did and allowed me to turn on badges once again – thank-you. It also seemed to happen for me once I’d paired a new apple watch, so I think that could be the root cause rather than iOS 16
Thanks for the detailed feedback Paul. Glad that you managed to fix it!
October 27th and I lost badges two days ago. Facebook, sometimes texts, always Mail, I have to get into mail to get badges to update, obviously by then I don’t need the badges. I have restarted, rebooted, turned settings on and off & sent feedback to Apple. Nothing changes.
Try deleting the Mail app completely, reboot the phone, and reinstall the app from the App Store, once you do this you will get the pop up whenever you install a new app asking if you allow notifications, and the issue will be fixed.
You were right, I deleted completely the app, rebooted the iPhone, reinstalled the app, and got the pop up to allow notifications, and got fixed. And I can see that the root cause is the same… a new apple watch was paired with the phone.
Thanks for confirming. Glad that you managed to fix it. Yes, this seems to be the trigger of the problem.
My problem is that deleting, rebooting and reinstalling sometimes only lasts 2-3 hours. Then everything is gone again. Do you know this too? Does anyone have a solution?
Hmm. Haven’t heard about it reoccurring. No one else complained. Not sure what else to suggest. Let us know if you have a breakthrough.
This worked for me. Thank you so much! This did happen after I paired an apple watch… but I went thru your steps (thanks for the updated steps – to delete and actually reinstall from the app store). Reactivated my email accounts and the badge is back! Thank you!
You’re welcome Christine. Happy to help!
Thanks, David! The matter has been resolved!!
Thank you for the info. I recently paired an apple watch with my iPhone and the badge/number of emails disappeared from the mail icon, but after removing the app, restarting the iPhone and reinstalling the mail app, everything worked perfectly. I didn’t have to re-add my accounts they were already there.
Thank you!
You’re welcome Adrian. Happy this worked out for you too.
Followed these steps and this didn’t work. Ill try’d offloading the mail app, power cycled the phone and reinstalled the app. Still no badges options anywhere for this app.
Worked for me! Deleted app and reinstalled. This had been driving me crazy. Thank you!
You’re welcome happy to help.
I had the same issue after pairing an apple watch. Completely uninstalling the app and reinstalling fixed it and the badges have returned. Thanks for the tip!
You’re welcome. Glad it helped!
Thanks… my iPhone 8plus is my jam, I just replaced the battery in it because this thing is RUGGED as heck. Im going to rock this one out until it doesn’t work anymore. lol. Anyways, deleting the mail app completely solved the badges issue for me. And yep, I had JUST paired an iWatch to it the other day, which started the issue. I opened my email this morning to 300 work emails from Friday, Sat, Sun. Not cool! I guess I really depend on the email badge!