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Why does messages say I have an unread message when I don't?

Why does messages say I have an unread message when I don't?


Posted on Nov 24, 2021 10:17 PM

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Posted on Nov 24, 2021 10:27 PM

You can try asking Siri; " Read my unread messages".


There is one more thing:


Unknown Senders is a section in Messages to check.

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Nov 28, 2021 1:27 PM in response to Smilin-Brian

I have been having this issue in MacOS Monterey and using Siri was the only way to solve this. I reset app, killall Dock, turned off/on iMessage and all forwarding options from phone to mac, signed out/in of iCloud, and unchecked/checked messages in iCloud. I even Control+tab through every single iMessage I had with no luck.


Siri worked immediately.

Why does messages say I have an unread message when I don't?

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