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Red Exclamation Mark on iphone message icon

I have a red exclamation mark next to my iphone 6s plus's message icon. The red mark appeared today and all messages sent today went though. I can find no red exclamation in any of my messages.


I tried restarting. I also tried signing in and out of my apple account.


Any other ideas?

iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 13

Posted on Jun 24, 2020 12:03 PM

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Posted on Jun 28, 2020 5:27 PM

Hey there carolb12,


Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities. We understand you’re seeing a red exclamation point on Messages. We understand how this could cause some concern and we’ll be happy to help with this.


If you couldn’t find any messages that failed to send or other issue in Messages, go to Settings > Notifications > Messages and turn off Allow Notifications there. Restart your iPhone after this:


Restart your iPhone


Turn Allow Notifications back on and see if the issue returns.


If it does, check for any updates to iOS and see if this helps:


Update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch 


You can read more about notifications for Messages here:


Change message notifications on iPhone


We hope this helps.


Take care.

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Jun 28, 2020 5:27 PM in response to carolb12

Hey there carolb12,


Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities. We understand you’re seeing a red exclamation point on Messages. We understand how this could cause some concern and we’ll be happy to help with this.


If you couldn’t find any messages that failed to send or other issue in Messages, go to Settings > Notifications > Messages and turn off Allow Notifications there. Restart your iPhone after this:


Restart your iPhone


Turn Allow Notifications back on and see if the issue returns.


If it does, check for any updates to iOS and see if this helps:


Update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch 


You can read more about notifications for Messages here:


Change message notifications on iPhone


We hope this helps.


Take care.

Red Exclamation Mark on iphone message icon

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