In the past couple of weeks I've noticed that iMessage on my iMac is showing 2 unread messages.
On examining every message, none show as being unread, and none show as unread on my iPhone nor my iPad.
It's becoming a bit annoying.
Anyone else having the problem or got a solution?
Thanks
Andy
iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), OS X Mountain Lion
I found this solution from apple.stackexchange.com:
1. First close the Messages app.
2. Open the Activity Monitor and quit the Dock process; this will restart the Dock process!
Good luck.
Tomer
Thanks, that was annoying.
The answer from Tomer is useful in that it solves the symptoms, but is there a way to solve the problem ie. make sure this doesn't happen over and over again?
Or is this a known bug which isn't scheduled to getting solved?
Thank you very much for your advice which solves problem.
Quitting messages and Quitting the Dock process in activity monitor did NOT work for me. Still have "wrong" unread badge count on my Messages icon.
Dock Reset - for Launchpad only Launchpad Reset
Try doing a Dock restart using the following Terminal command:
killall Dock
Log out/in and test. If that doesn’t work, you need to look in your user Library/Applications Support/Dock for the .db. Use the Finder “Go To Folder” command. Enter ~/Library/Applications Support/Dock. Move the .db to your desktop.
Then try a dock reset.
Applications/Utilities/Terminal enter the command
killall Dock
Log out/in test. If it works okay, delete the .db from the desktop.
If the Dock is the same, return the .db to where you got them from, overwriting the newer ones.
This worked to clear the unread icon, but imessage still thinks there are unread messages
iMessage unread count incorrect
