Q: Mail app shows 3 unread emails when there isn't.

Brilliant. A couple of minutes and problem solved. Thanks

thanks!!! it was driving me crazy!

PROBLEM SOLVED

I have just solved this problem on my iPhone 6 - I deleted the email account entirely and then then added it again. When it was back, the two phantom unread emails had gone.

thx Ib99 - was annoying me!

jjust send yourself an email then go and read email hit edit then mark as unread and voila

jjust send yourself an email then go and read email hit edit then mark as unread and voila

I had the same issue, finally solved it on my own. On my iphone 6 I went to

1. settings, then
2. "mail, contacts, calenders"
3. iCloud and logged in then went back a step
4. clicked on my company exchange or i'm guessing for a non-work phone its the gmail / aol / etc. client
5. turned the mail icon to off
6. then turned the mail icon back on
7. messages disappeared

I previously tried syncing this with my laptop through a usb as I have MS Outlook on my mac, but dice. After months of annoyance, the above steps finally worked.

Thanks for posting.  I've been pulling my hair out trying to fix this.

Thanks Wizard Fingers -- further instructions would be go to settings, mail contacts calendars, then to outlook, slide the green slide to off, then go back to the home screen and go back in and turn it back on and my fantom badge was gone.....I did not even have to reboot.

Good luck with yours and thanks again!

I've been having the same exact issue on an iPhone 6 with Outlook for weeks.  I was just able to resolve it by opening client on my laptop, marking all emails in my inbox as unread, refresh my phone, then mark all emails read on the client on my laptop and refresh my phone again.  Finally the three mysterious unread emails on my phone were all 'read'.

thank you so much! This had been really bugging me!

THank you, have had this issue before but this has resolved it. I actually unread all messages then marked them all as read ... now no unread emails!

Thank you! This worked for me

Still a working fix for the 5c in 2016.

Thanks

Simple to solve:

go to settings

email settings

select your email account with the problem

switch mail OFF , dont delete !

all the rest you can keep on ( like agenda cintacts etc.)

wait till it has synced

then sitch it ON again

problem solved