After iOS 7.1 update: red '1' badge on settings app

I used iTunes to restore 7.1.1 and reload a backup if my iPad 4 from iCloud. I still have the red badge. I'm still downloading all my apps. Why does Apple make it so difficult to get support?

You need to update to 7.1.1

Ok I updated to 7.1.1 and have this issue since:(

Did a full restore and no good..

I am not goin setting it up as a new ipad..

Any more ideas!!

Don't know if it was mentioned on here. I tried turning badges off in the notification center. That didn't work. Stuck with a big red 1 on an iPad mini Retina.

holy cow, i think i got it.

I just got a 5S a couple weeks ago, and i LOVE it, but then someone sent me an animated gif (that i couldn't even see!), and it screwed up so many things, including the red badge for messages. mine was stuck at "2" all day, no matter what i did.... short of a full restore, which i really didn't want to do.

I even tried going into the Notification Center and turning off badges for Messages, and turning it back on-- the "2" came right back!

I remember which two messages I got that made the badge appear. I held my finger on one of them, chose "more," checked only one of the two, and deleted it. The badge disappeared.

I would be very curious to know if it mattered which messages were deleted in this situation. I should have tried a random message, because I was pretty sure deleting the guilty message was likely to work. I'd love to know if anyone tries it with any random message (or even a random message from the person who triggered the permanent badge) and what your results are.

I hope this is somehow helpful.

see my reply-- maybe this will help you?

My wife's iPhone 4S (iOS 7.1.1) was having the same problem. I tried all the various combinations of resets, turning on/off various notifications, everything but setting up as a new device. I came across ghost8675309's post, and thought I'd take the same approach. Didn't work for us because my wife uses her iPhone for business and gets too many messages to make it remotely feasible. However, I started looking through her mess sages to see if I could spot anything peculiar (I even want as far as checking that everything had a time stamp). Lo and behold, I come across two unsent messages that failed to send. I proceeded to delete these two messages and the "Red 1" disappeared.

One thing to note: a common thread in ghost's and my approach is that we each deleted a message. Not sure that this will work for everyone, but I thought it would be worth mentioning (since that makes me 1 of 2 people that has successfully resolved this issue...in the whole world...yeah).

Good luck and feel free to donate to 1PybuV8dsg4jooHw7EShP6rByzDrYwfie6 if this helped you.

Sorry folk...

This is not to do with the mail app...

its got to do with the number 1 appearing on settigns after a software update!!