Phantom unread emails: Mail shows 5 unread messages, but there are none...

Thanks a bunch, this worked

After reading all the posts regarding this issue (yeah I read them all), the only thing that worked for me was actually deleting my email account from my iphone and setting it up again. No more ghosts emails after that, so I recommed before doing anything else, deleting your email account from iphone, shutting off and restarting iphone and then adding email address again. Wish I would have done this from the get go...

Thank you, [b]Pro61[/b].

In my case, the ghost e-mails were in two different accounts. I sent myself two e-mails, one to each account, chose "Mark All As Read", and that was the end of it.

Messed up the markup code...

Also, to clarify further, the ghost e-mails appeared after I had marked a read e-mail as 'unread' in my Inbox. There might be different causes for different users (and consequently, different solutions).

Oh yes! This problem of over 9000 phantom emails has been confirming my views of Apple and IOS7 and their disregard of their users and quality control. Thank you for fixing a problem Apple obviously doesn't care to address for their users. Greedy, lazy and trying to control the tech world. Depending on cheap, or free, crowd sourcing to do their tech support. Cheers, V.

I tried it all and it all failed until I hit upon this solution. I had seventeen phantom emails in my sent folder but not one "actual" email in it. When I first tried this with one email, it didn't work, but then I sent a second one and, once there were multiple emails — whoosh — the phantom emails and their numbers disappeared immediately. That said, I only have one account in iPhone's Mail app, it's a POP account, and I don't use my phone as an email repository.

I (and my OCD) could not be more grateful, gumdoc2.

I ended up deleting 20 unread (read) emails and since then haven't had the problem any more. This can't be the "official correct" solution though.

10/3/14 This morning...all of a sudden my Verizon email inbox was showing two unread emails and there were none. I am on a MacBook Pro...which I don't know if matters...for me the solution was simple...I held down the control key...clicked on the pad which brought a drop down menu down.....selected marked all email read....and that cleared it....the end of the problem....

10/3/14 This morning...all of a sudden my Verizon email inbox was showing two unread emails and there were none. I am on a MacBook Pro...which I don't know if matters...for me the solution was simple...I held down the control key...with my curser over Verizon (under inbox) I clicked on the pad...essentially doing a right click if you are using a mouse.... which brought a drop down menu down.....selected mark all email as read....and that cleared it....the end of the problem....

10/3/14 This morning...all of a sudden my Verizon email inbox was showing two unread emails and there were none. I am on a MacBook Pro...which I don't know if matters...for me the solution was simple...I held down the control key...with my curser over Verizon (under inbox) I clicked on the pad...essentially doing a right click if you are using a mouse.... which brought a drop down menu down.....selected mark all email as read....and that cleared it....the end of the problem....

Jad's solution worked for me in Mail 5.3 on OS X 10.7.5, where Mail was showing 1 unread message when there were no folders showing any unread mail. After restarting Mail, it still showed 1 unread on the Mail icon, only now Mail also showed 1 unread mail in one subfolder, which it had not shown before. So the unread count is accurate at the moment.

The solution is to go into the email folder that has the unread emails , select edit then "mark all as unread" then wait 5 second, and edit "mark all as read" and this will resolve your problem.

Hello everyone
The failure is with me every few days.
I set OFF then ON in setting iphone - exchanhe, it works, but comes back after a day or two.

I updated to version 8.3, and still, the same thing.

We work with Exchange 2003 sp2. But I know also occurs in Exchange 2010.
Anyone found anything?
Is Apple facilities that?
I also checked if I connect via OWA ( Explorer, Chrome, Firefox ), it shows right. Email show read.

It's very long time that problem isn't solve about Apple, why ?

Thanks for every one.

Quick fix.

1. Open your email folder
2. Click Edit (top right)
3. Select All (bottom left)
4. Mark All As Unread
5. Select All (again)
6. Mark All As Read

Good luck!

This works perfectly even on OSX Yosemite