iOS7 update - it reset all my emails to unread

its a real problem.... it downloads all your inbox... and there is no more options to limit the amount... I got 2500 emails!!!! and I also try to set them all to read, and it will not do it... we need again the option to limit the amount of displayed email that is gone in this verion. In my Exchange account, the mark all wirks, but in the IMAP and POP accounts looks like it does not work.

Yep, same here. I now have 14,000 hotmail emails. I can get rid of them but they keep coming back again after marking as read. The biggest downside to ios7 I have found so far!

go to settings -> iCloud and turn on Mail

I marked all emails as unread, then marked them as read...and it took away my 10,459 unread emails. Go to edit, mark all, mark as unread....then repeat and mark them as read. Also, I had taken it off "organize by thread" because it seemed that all my unread ones were in threads. Hope this helps!

maybe I was to eager to write a "solution".

I also had this problem, then I went to the icloud settings, and there was an email feature turned off. I turned it on and unread message icon dissapeared.

Yep, I have the same problem and have also posted this as a bug.

BTW, the marking as unread then changing to all read works for iCloud, but not external accounts in Outlook and Mail.

Im also having the same issue, very frustrating. i called apple and they have no answers. They just told me to disable the badge icon for now . 11,082 unread emails. They had me do a hard reset, no change.

I've got the same problem, shows 2,048 unread emails yet they dont show up

Same here!

Add my name to the list. I have 31 unread emails on a gmail account and 1 on a yahoo account. On yahoo I have completely cleared all emails (sent or received), all threads, conversations etc. without any results. I set up the "smart" folder named unread mail... which remains empty at the same time that it says I have 32 unread emails in the small print at the bottom of the folder????? Reading the beta forums this was a problem apparently until beta 4 when it was corrected... Apparently not. If I can't identify the unread mail I can read or delete it.

Yep, same problem here. I can clear them as read, and then a few minutes later, it's showing 558 unread messages again. Just keeps coming back like a stubborn venerial disease. Uh...Not that I'd know. Knew I should have waited a bit before upgrading! D'oh!

I have the same problem. My hotmail account is showing over 40,000 emails. If I reset the phone, select all, mark unread, mark read, for each email account location it will clear them but ONLY until I receive another email. Then I have to repeat the process. This is unacceptable!

Same here but weird. I have 4 POP accounts set up and no iCloud email, gmail, yahoo, etc... They are all my own domain POP accounts.

At first, it said 11,000 unread emails in my "All Inboxes" box. Selected ALL and mark as "read". It cleared most of them out, but one account still remains with 4,000 unread emails. All of the accounts are hosted by godaddy, and they are all set up using the same settings, but for some reason, it is still seeing the one account as all unread.

Interesting development though... Here is what my account list looks like when I go to email app:

All Inboxes 4,053

Email A 4,053

Email B

Email C

Email D

Email A will not clear unread emails. I deactivated Email A, and then I got...

All Inboxes 2,341

Email B 2,341

Email C

Email D

And now Email B won't clear. I re-activated Email A after a hard restart, and now I have...

All Inboxes 4,053

Email A 4,053

Email B

Email C

Email D

AGAIN! Email A won't clear but Email B is now clear again. It appears that the first email box in the hierarchy is the one that will not clear unread messages. WEIRD!

Obviously a bug that needs to be worked out and no solution because of settings. Hopefully bug guys read this and get it sorted out.

Another question - it didn't download ALL of these emails to my phone did it?? Thats the most important! Had it originally set to 100 most recent emails per account.

Same thing for me. It's a GoDaddy account for my business, set up as an "Other" mail server (i.e. not gmail, hotmail, etc). 25,000 unread emails. No problem with my hotmail or gmail. I tried clearing my GoDaddy webmail inbox of any unread emails through the website, but that didn't change anything. As soon as the pop server connects to my iPhone, it shows all emails in the box as "unread" on ios7.

I just got off the phone with Apple after 45 minutes and two different reps. The last rep said they have no solution for this. She said to send Apple feedback with my issue, and hopefully if enough people complain about the problem, they will fix it. No timeline. Until then, there's no way to clear that notification...short of clicking off on each "unread" email. I've tried the "Edit> Mark All> Mark as Read" option. It only marked the few hundred in the box as read. Then when I add more emails to the box (by scrolling to the bottom), I can only get it to mark unread the emails on the screen at any given time.

Apple, please fix this quickly. This is really annoying.