unread text badge icon won't go away

Okay i believe i found the fix all for this...

what you have to do is send yourself a text message first

then you have to go to your messaging thread (list of all messages)

once you receive the message you will see it says (1) next to "messages"

DO NOT select the unread message! swipe to the left and delete the unread message

hit the home button and the red 1 should disappear from the message badge icon

hope this works 🙂

Did you check other text message threads to make sure there is no unread message in a different thread?

If so quit the messages app and reset the phone.

Double click the Home button to show the screen with running and recently used apps. Each app icon will have a sample page above it. Flick up on the page (not the app icon) and the page will fly away and the app icon will disappear. This quits that app. Then reset your device. Press and hold the Home and Sleep buttons simultaneously until the Apple logo appears. Let go of the buttons and let the device restart. See if that fixes your problem.

I had the exact problem, cleared notifications, deleted texts, reset phone but it wouldn't disappear.

Try this solution(it worked for myself):

Settings -- Notification Center -- Messages -- Turn Off Badge App Icon

Return to Main Screen

Repeat the following steps to turn ON badge App Icon

and you will notice that the unread text is gone.

Cheers 🙂

Hey All!! I believe I have a fix for those who - like me - could not get it resolved with the steps above. I just fixed it on mine. And trust me - I tried each of the steps above several times - which SHOULD have worked but ... we are indeed talking about picky and delicate iPhones here, hehe. Ok - so ...

When the step of turning off the badge alert did not work, it got me thinking ... iMessage has several settings in the iPhone settings area. So let me play with those. And sure enough - the first setting change fixed it. Here is what ya do ...

1. Go to Settings

2. Simply Scroll Down to "Messages"

3. Turn Off the Very First Option - "iMessage" At the Top

4. Leave Settings and Check Home Screen to See the Badge Has Disappeared

5. Return Back to Message Settings and Turn "iMessage" Back On

Voila! I hope this works for some folks!!

After trying every suggestion except resetting my phone, the one that finally worked was sending myself a text message and then deleting it unread. Thank you so much to the two posters who suggested it!

**EASIEST FIX!** I figured out this one myself 🙂 click on the message that has the stuck notification, click on "details" click "do not disturb/mute". then exit the conversation, go back in it, uncheck the "do not disturb" button and the stuck notification should go away!

I had the same problem too...I tried restarting/ App kill / on-off Badge but finally trying all these i got a new text message from my friend and i deleted the message and returned to home screen and the Message badge is GONE. So if you are facing the same problem, just ask anyone to send a text and check if the badge goes away.

I just tried this trick* from kaytee_loo and it worked like a charm, but I only had to proceed steps 1 to 3; I had 2 unread messages, then back to iMessages, then back to desktop, and then "2" icon disappeared!

I have to say my problem was -I think- coming from a lack of available space (0 byte available) (PS: I made some free gigs BEFORE I tried the different solutions, of course). Well, thank you Kaytee Loo :-)

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1. Send yourself a message
2. Immediately go back to the Messages screen BEFORE you receive your own message
3. Delete the message...You should have 2 unread messages now that you can't see.
4. Send yourself another message and let this one be read
5. Done

I thought reubenaz's idea didn't work either but what you have to do is turn off the badge icon for quite a while. At first I kept restarting it and all that and got frustrated so I just turned the red icon off completely, like too bad for the people who I have unread messages from :/ and that was yesterday, today I turned the badge icon back on just to see what would happen and BAM! It was gone like magic. I'm probably really late but here's for everyone else who had the problem too :)

Hey

this problem was really bothering me since yesterday, and i've tried all you guys told me to do, and none of them works for me 😟

So i figured this out by myself. This trick works for me.

All you have to do is send yourself a message, tell a friend to text you, and then after you got their message, send a reply text to them. VOILA! The badges icon is gone 🙂

[POSSIBLE FIX]

Just stumbled onto this fix. Have had this issue for over a year.

Just ask SIRI to "read messages" and she will go through the ones you cant see/didn't physically receive.

Hope that helps you all 🙂

Did you delete the message thread with the blue dot?

when you send yourself a text it should pop up with a blue dot next to the thread.

swipe swipe left and delete the message thread you sent yourself.

It should clear all your notifications. If not then you have a different problem

If anyone ever has this issue again and doesn't want to completely reset or restore, try the following:

1. Send yourself a message
2. Immediately go back to the Messages screen BEFORE you receive your own message
3. Delete the message...You should have 2 unread messages now that you can't see.
4. Send yourself another message and let this one be read
5. Done

Hope this works.

If that guys method doesn’t work then just press the button on top left like if ur going to delete them one by one and put read all icon should disappear but ur hidden message will be lost same thing happened to me and that’s wat I did and it worked fk it yolo lol

yeah sounds like you may you may need to restore your phone i believe that's the last option