I shut my computer down last night and now imessage shows one unread message in the dock. I've quit the program, killed the dock, which helps until I have another message. Then it shows one unread all over again.
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4)
hi,
No that about all of the variations on solving this.
7:23 pm Friday; December 8, 2017
Have you read the message and it is still showing unread? When you get a new message it is supposed to show as unread.
Yes. All messages are read. Still shows that one isn't.
HI,
IF you click on the DOCK icon does it list the "Unread" iMessage (or other message)
Is it one you have dismissed as you read it on your iPhone.
Try and select it from the DOCK icon.
If it is "Selectable" it will open and you can "read" it again.
If not go to Applications/Utilities and open Activity Monitor.
Scroll down until you find the listing for the DOCK.
Select it and then use the x icon top left.
Confirm Force Quit in the dialogue box that appears.
The DOCK will disappear off the screen until the app that runs the DOCK that you just Quit restarts.
The Unread marker should be gone.
9:00 p.m. Saturday; July 11, 2015
Thanks, Ralph. I've done all of this, and while it gets rid of the notification for a little bit, it always comes back. Must just be a glitch. There aren't any unread messages on my phone OR on my mac. I've quit the app, killed the dock, etc etc.
Hi,
I was trying to say that in some cases, even when you think you have tried everything that the iMessages that the app thinks is still unread shows in a list when you click the DOCK icon.
As all iMessages are sort of duplicated at the server and sent individually to each device you can read a message on one and not another. This can lead you to dismissing a thread before the iMessages in question has loaded to it.
I understand that you feel you have done all of this.
You do have Messages app Quit when doing the kill Dock part ?
8:50 p.m. Sunday; July 12, 2015
I didn't think it would work, but closing messages before force quitting the dock worked. Thank you.
You're Welcome.
9:30 pm Thursday; October 29, 2015
Thanks, this helped me.
Alternatively, the dock can be restarted by going into Terminal and typing this command (Dock is case-sensitive)
"killall -KILL Dock"
Yep - Ralph's method works - you just need to quit Messages first before doing it. Yay!
This worked for me. Thank you.
You're welcome.
7:59 pm Tuesday; May 24, 2016
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Also try this.
In System Preferences > Notifications in Messages set the Banner to None
Set all the other settings to Off.
Quit Messages.
Restart Messages (it should now be using the new settings).
This should get rid of the Badge as the Dock settings is Off in Notifications.
If the badge has gone (and you have read everything new as well) then reset Notifications.
Some have suggested this seems to work on a more permanent basis.
7:47 pm Thursday; May 26, 2016
Ralph please! This is not helping anymore..is there any other solution? Thank you very much, for now and millions of hints before;)
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