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I use outlook for android (Motorola Moto G running Android 5.1) and it worked great until a couple of days ago. Now I get notifications of new emails, but the messages don't show up in my inbox. If I click a notification to try and read the email, it says 'Couldn't open message', and takes me back to my inbox, which shows only old messages.
Please help!
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In authenticator app, turn on 'allow background activity'
To the best of my knowledge I do not have the authenticator app that everyone talks about
I had been experiencing the same issue with my S8 for the past three months, following the same workarounds/fixes discussed on this thread as far back as 2015! Many of us have been frustrated for years. I saw a post indentifying the battery optimization setting in the authenticator app as the root cause. I went to settings on my phone and used voice search to locate the app and in my case, as soon I opened it I saw a red notice on settings. Which confirmed the app was set in battery optimization mode and when I turned it off both the notifications and my emails came in as expected. I will monitor and post an update here in one week to let you know if the fix held. I'm also going to copy and paste this on that first thread where I found this suggestion.... YOU ARE MY HERO!
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I had been experiencing the same issue with my S8 for the past three months, following the same workarounds/fixes discussed on this thread as far back as 2015! Many of us have been frustrated for years. I saw a post indentifying the battery optimization setting in the authenticator app as the root cause. I went to settings on my phone and used voice search to locate the app and in my case, as soon I opened it I saw a red notice on settings. Which confirmed the app was set in battery optimization mode and when I turned it off both the notifications and my emails came in as expected. I will monitor and post an update here in one week to let you know if the fix held. I'm also going to copy and paste this on that first thread where I found this suggestion.... YOU ARE MY HERO!
Turning off optimization mode works as long as my phone doesnt go into power saver mode when the battery gets low. As soon as power saver mode kicks in, i stop getting emails. So back to square 2 of turning off power saver manually every time i want to receive an email in outlook. Gmail is so much better....