How to Make iPhone Mail Check for New Mail Less Often (or Never)

You have set up your email in iPhone Mail to email everywhere at any time — any time you want, not when the red new mail counter demands it.

Fortunately, you can prevent iPhone Mail from checking for new mail automatically. Of course, you can also enable frequent — or instant — updates when they make sense.

Make iPhone Mail Check for New Mail Less Often (or Never)

To set how often iPhone Mail checks your accounts for new messages:

• Tap Settings on the iPhone's Home screen.
• Select Fetch New Data.
• Pick the desired mail checking interval for POP and IMAP accounts under Fetch.
  • Choose Manual to disable automatic checking.
• Turn Push ON or OFF to enable or disable new messages in Exchange and MobileMe accounts appearing in iPhone Mail the moment you receive them.
• To disable automatic mail checking for individual accounts or make push accounts update only periodically instead of instantly:
  • Tap Advanced.
  • Go to the desired account.
  • Choose Manual for no automatic updates.
  • Pick Fetch to have iPhone Mail check for new messages on the schedule set before.
  • Select Push to have new messages pushed to Exchange accounts.
• Press the Home button.