Update counter show 2 but nothing to update

Same problem. The update count is 13 but the thirteen apps shown all have the OPEN button instead of update.

I just had this on my new iPad Mini 3 (iOS 8.3). It showed one update pending, but nothing there to update. It showed three I could "Open". I tried several of the suggestions here, restarted and all that. Nothing helped.

After some experimenting, what fixed it was simply this:

1. Notice the top item(s) in the list to "Open" on the App Store update page.

2. Go to the main screen containing that application and hold down on that icon until they all start to wiggle.

3. Click the "X" in the corner of the icon to uninstall that application.

4. Return to the App Store, search and locate that application.

5. Reinstall it.

I only had one pending "Update" that was stuck, and I did this for the top application. That fixed the problem. You may have to do this for as many as you have stuck. Hope this helps someone else.

Thank you for a thorough explanation of what's going on. Same happened with me on a Windows 10 PC (has also happened with Win7). CPC's suggestion below from Mar 27, 2015 4:42 AM seemed to do the trick, but you have to be pretty quick...a few tries and it worked. Unfortunately it shouldn't be happening in the first place. Just watch how many updates you have...if numerous and you may want to do a few at a time.

Your recommendation did the trick, but you do have to be pretty quick...a few tries and it worked. Unfortunately it shouldn't be happening in the first place. Just watch how many updates you might have...if numerous and you may want to do a few at a time.

Follow this link and excecute Solution 1 and... voilà!

http://osxdaily.com/2014/06/05/app-updates-not-showing-app-store-ios-fix/

Tried this fix on both my iPhone and my iPad and it works! Thank you VinZinzi! Definitely seems like a glitch when syncing apps to iTunes, which I normally don't do.

USE THIS.. http://www.solveyourtech.com/how-to-get-rid-of-the-number-on-the-app-store-icon/

This did not work per your instructions. Just another bug in iOS.

I updated my iphone 5c to ios 9.3 yesterday and after the update I had the same issue with the app store notifications showing 4 updates available, so when I checked there were no updates. I tried everything I have read on Apple support and in the forums, nothing worked, so I deleted the apps off of the iphone one at a time and redownloaded from icloud and cleared the notifications. It worked.

I just had this issue and solved it pretty easily.

Turns out my iPad was set to automatically download apps which i had also downloaded on another device(my iPhone). I went through the iPaid and deleted the apps which showed up 1st in the update list (even tho they just provided the "open" option). Then I turned off the setting which had the iPad automatically download apps that I also downloaded to my iPhone. App store now shows 0 updates.

Hope this helps

This thread is a little old, but I found a simple solution for the iPad Air 2:

Here is what worked for me-

Go to Settings.

Click on Notifications.

Click on App Store Banners.

Make sure "Badge App Icon" is turned off.

Easy fix. Worked perfect foe me, very helpful.

I had the same issue. I had uninstalled the Google app BEFORE I updated it and when I went thru my apps to see what the issue was......that was the culprit.

Just seen your answer....I just wrote the same thing.