Messages deleted on iPad aren’t deleted from iPhone.

I feel like an idiot. Not unusual for me when dealing with syncing devices. I went back and put phone and iPad and iMac next to each other and carefully compared all settings I thought might be relevant. Found the problem when comparing the lists of internet accounts added to each device. When looking at iPad, I would see my email address listed in accounts and said, ok. But when I looked at phone at same time I saw that it was listed twice. Oops, the fact that your Apple ID is also your email address tripped me up. The account on my iPad that appeared as my email address was the Apple account, not my google acct. I added the google account to my iPad and voila! It all works, mail is perfectly synced with all three devices. Have to confess I felt really stupid, as I have had to remind my beloved wife a number of times over the years to choose the right account for sending email out, as she has the same “double listing” of her accounts. In fact I had eventually changed the nickname of the google account on her devices to “xxx’s personal email” so she would choose it and not the Apple acct.

Anyway, hope this helps someone else in the future.

thanks for your time.

JB

I did check low power settings to be thorough, but that is not the issue. This problem with the iPad email deletions/trashings not syncing to account and thus other devices is a long term issue that has been happening for almost a year. I suspect it is a setting in gmail account, but I’ve gone through them multiple times and can’t find a solution. I’ve checked mail settings on the iPad and they are identical to the settings on my iPhone, which does correctly sync deletions to other devices, including the iPad.

Any suggestions?