Incorrect badge notifications on messages

I have this same issue as well and have done those steps numerous times and my messages notifications still say 59 in red

This is the only thing that worked for me. Thank you! 🙌🏽

I asked Siri to read all messages. Didn’t work for me. Do I have to let it read all messages literally (too many) or can I stop it mid way?

You have to literally manually go through every message via Siri

Correct. She has to read them all. As she reads them, the notifications will start to decrease.

Brilliant. Thank you for providing the fix -- I've been looking a solution for months! What an odd bug

I can't believe this actually worked. The date is 26/05/2023 and I'm on the latest firmware, how has Apple not fixed this bug already. Luckly this trick worked for me. Very frustrating.

The “Hey Siri read my messages!” Worked like a charm! After Siri was done the ‘Red 1’ notification badge went away. So simple and worked so well!

Thank You!!!!!

It works!! Thank you

You can do that by “hey siri, read my messages” then after like she reads 5 messages you can go to messages app and you will find all of them suddenly appeared.

Having Siri read them to me was the only thing that worked for me, too! Thank you!!

I came here with this problem. I asked Siri to “read all unread messages”. That worked 😮‍💨

Genius! Thank you! This has been driving me bananas and this IS the solution!

This is pure brilliance. I have embarassingly been at this for months, thank you!!

That's a great trick and it may come in handy. But it doesn't seem to fix this problem because all of my messages are already marked as read. The badge function has a bug.