ios 14 Mail App is full of bugs

Guys, go to your web mailboxes and cleanup the unread messages (check them one by one if necessary) .

I found old hangouts communications that were marked as unread.

And that was the reason for my ghost messages...

It’s been an ongoing problem with one fix being to delete and reinstall the account which did not work for me but strangely when I turned it off and on again in Settings/Mail/Accounts and access each account that worked. I also checked my ‘Unread Mail’ folder as well but I had none.

This is what worked for me:

• Choose a new Apple ID password. Write it down because it may not populate from your iCloud Keychain later (I’ll explain more)
• Reset your Apple ID password using the Apple ID settings on your iPhone - then sign out after the password has changed
• Turn off your iPhone
• Wait a few minutes
• Do a hard restart - quickly press and release volume ⬆️ then volume ⬇️ buttons on the left side of your iPhone. Then press the start button on the right side and hold it until the white Apple logo appears on your screen.
• When Home Screen appears go to Settings>Apple ID>Sign In and enter your Apple ID and the new password you just wrote down - NOTE: your iCloud Keychain may not activate until you sign back in, so please remember to write down your new Apple password before you sign out as mentioned above
• After a few seconds your Apple ID will restore mail function and the ghost emails will no longer appear as a red badge icon on the mail app home screen. You may have to log back into subscription apps, I did for a few of mine. Also if using any Google functions such as Gmail or Google Maps you’ll need to log back in and toggle permissions such as location and web access.

Until an IOS update: The only thing that I found which works: Select all emails, mark as read, select all emails again, move to Archives or Important folder (depending on the type of email account)

No more phantom “unread” emails; that notification for some reason I found annoying as it would have me check: is there a new email? Because at times the phantom email would disappear and there was an actual new email that had arrived.

For the time being — it’s solved!

My solution (that worked for me) move all your emails into the respective account archive folder; and make sure they are marked as “read”.... I found using my inbox as storage for incoming mail didn’t work well with the new IOS 14 update. You can always flag the items in your archive folders that you want to keep an eye on or consider important. In my case, the ghost emails were an irritation that I had to get rid of...

Apologies!

After all, it came out as a Gmail issue!

Since i am seeing the same count (8) unread messages in their Webmail client,

even i've marked everything as "Read".

Br,

Milen

Check your Gmail for unread messages. That was the cause of my issue....!!

You have to find them via web and manually mark them as read.

That is correct!

It seems that emails from Google Hangouts conflicted with iOS14, in my case. They were mark as unread.

So we need to access Gmail via web browser and look for those emails.

Thanks!

After weeks of trying everything - the solution that worked for me; go to to inbox: edit, select all, mark as unread. Done! In my case, unread email disappeared.

👍👍 Would be nice if Apple could let us know about work around bugs that shouldn’t be there in the first place.

the fake “unread emails” showing in the icon was such a waste of time when you are expecting an email. You see that a new email arrived in the icon, you take time to check, and nothing unread is there. And like most people, I don’t have time to search through my inbox what to keep or not; so the discovery of moving everything to the archive folder, making sure they were marked unread, solved the problem. It’s been a few months now and the ghosts never came back

I'm also having the exact same issue after iOS14 update.

It keeps saying I have 8 unread messages, but I don't.

I've tried to select all emails and mark them as "Read" but it doesn't solve the issue.

It’s my iCloud email that is causing the issue gmail is ok. But thanks for the response

No, it didn't. Even 14.2 didn't fix it.