unread text badge icon won't go away

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

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'm having the exact same problem. I dragged down the notifications, found the message, cleared it, reset my phone and the badge icon is still there.

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 🙂

Thank you for suggesting double click home key and swiping away messages app. When I returned, problem was solved.

Thanks Reubenaz. That worked

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 :)

I've tried everything but this last option so will try it tonight. Thanks.. It does drive you mad though!

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.

That worked for me. I was this close to resetting. Thanks, you saved me a major head ache.

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!!

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 🙂

Hi all, I tried this suggestion and now my message counter is stuck showing "9" (I have no saved messages). I'm on an iPhone 5s with iOS 8.1.2