iPhone and iPad showing unread messages even though I’m not seeing any unread message

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for posting this!! Nothing I tried worked and it was driving me crazy! Then I seen this… worked like a charm, and it was messages I’ve already read…

If my iPad shows 51 new text messages, you’re suggesting I have Siri read 52 messages?

thank you, even though Apple guys couldn’t tell me how to fix that!

Tanks

Ok

https://apps.apple.com/ca/story/id1538632801

Thank you! This was driving me nuts!

Thank you!! I’ve had these ghost messages for years and couldn’t find a way to see them much less read or delete them.

Yes!!!! This worked when nothing else did! Thank you!

Thank you so much

Thanks Ellis,

Your solution worked.

Asking Siri worked

You are a genius. This is great thank you for posting!

AHHH IT WORKED! Thank you so much! I’ve had unread messages that were showing for months but I could never find where they were to mark them as read. I would have never thought to tell Siri to read my messages

Asking Siri to read the messages is not practical is it takes a very long time plus you have to keep saying no when Siri asks if you would like to reply to reach read message. The best solution I found is to scroll to the bottom of the messages, right down the first message (this may take a while if you have many messages), then click on the 3 dots on the top right corner and ‘Select messages’, then click on ‘Read all’ at the bottom left. Now it is important that you don’t exit the messages app immediately as that will stop the read command as soon as you exit. Your screen will freeze for sometime. After a while exit the app and check the unread message notification, you will find that all your messages have been read.