Who needs Calculator? The iPhone’s Mail app can do math!

July 2, 2009 by Dr. Macenstein · 5 Comments
Filed under: Glitch, WTF, iPhone 

I ran into an odd problem today with my Mail on my iPhone. As you can see below, one of my IMAP accounts now thinks I have “negative 1″ e-mails.

The funny thing is, it appears that Mail actually understands negative numbers, as you can see the icon shows that I only have 1 message, as 1 -1 +1 = 1.

I sent another message to myself, and yes, Mail knows that 2 -1 +1 = 2.

This seems to be an odd IMAP glitch others have experienced as well, according the Apple support discussions, so hopefully when I get home and am able to restore my iPhone all will be right with the world. (Unless after the restore Mail starts thinking I have the square root of 10 e-mails…)

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