My iPhone shows a message notification, but there are no unopened messages. How do you clear the notification off the icon.

I don't know if you already fixed it, but you can simply send a message to yourself and it will be gone. That's what I did to mine. 🙂

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Though the original post is from over two years ago, I encountered this problem recently. I was able to solve it by opening the Messages app so my texts were listed out, then hit "Edit" in the upper left-hand corner, and then selecting the option "read all", which is listed on the lower left-hand corner of the screen. I noticed that one of my messages came up as unread and I opened that message and then closed it, and then exited the Messages app and returned to the phone home screen and the notification for my Messages app was no longer there. Success!

MW512

Your solution worked for me. thanks

I had the little red 1 in the home icon on Facebook messenger and went to the oldest message and started deleting until one was still open. The little red 1 has disappeared.

The problem I'd have with that is that I could never know if I have a new message, because that's the only way I could tell unless I know I got a notification.

BENSCHWAABBYY See my reply above, I was able to clear an unread message badge on my iPad that was driving me nuts

Did you ever find a solution to this problem?

I have an iPad, but this worked for me, open the message app, send yourself a message (keep the imessage app open) do a force restart, the unread message badge app icon should be gone

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! This worked 100%!

Worked for me on iPad. Many thanks.

Thanks; I didn’t realize you had deleted all the msgs first. So I did and tried again unfortunately, no luck. I’ll keep trying and post my answer. Hopefully soon.

This has been fixed by software update.

Never mind, it's back! This is so frustrating!!!!!