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Apple Watch showing unread messages

I have no unread messages. My watch says I do. I have turned the phone and watch off and on again. How can they not fix this?! It’s a constant issue and these are both Apple products. What a joke

iPhone 6s, iOS 10

Posted on Jul 6, 2021 10:32 AM

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javaliga

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Posted on Jul 6, 2021 11:21 AM

The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support

If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support

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