Messages app badge icon not showing up.

After having this for over a month, I finally found a post that said to RESET my iPad. I did that and it fixed my irritating problem . SETTINGS > GENERAL > RESET. Had to go back and change some of my preferred settings back to my customized settings, BUT IT FIXED THE PROBLEMFOR ME!!!!

Have you updated to 11.2.2 yet?

Fyi ... still working here, 4 days after installing iOS 11.2.2 🙂

Yes that is correct. I went into settings -> Messages -> turned off the iMessage switch

shut off ipad

Leave off for 30-60 seconds

Turn on ipad

re-enable imessage switch

After doing this. I still had the issue. But now magically it is working just fine

It basically Resets all the custom settings you did when you first got your iPad. Not your app settings, but the iOS settings. So everything in the sections below. He didn’t really look at any of my other programs, he just verified some settings for iMessage. The big thing was he noticed that the reset all didn’t reset my home screen picture (which it should have) so he had me do it again. But I spent a lot of time customizing again, bc I turn a lot of stuff off (like background app refresh). So I suggest you go through each of these tabs one by one and review the settings. (It took me over an hour to redo mine).

In Settings:

Notifications

Contol Center

Do Not Disturb

General

Display & Brightness

Wallpaper

Sounds

Siri & Search

Touch ID & Passcode

Battery

Privacy

iTunes & App Store

Wallet & Apple Pay

I don’t mean this in a rude way, but I wouldn’t hold my breath... if they haven’t even acknowledged the bug, then it isn’t on any fix list. The system development lifecycle for this stuff is months once the bug has been verified and prioritized for a fix. I worked in IT for a fortune 7 technology company for 20 years and I can say something like this wouldn’t make it to the top of the list very fast. It's only partially broken and there is a work around to fix it. Sorry to be a downer, but you might want to consider the reset when you have time. And I would do it twice. reset all, reboot, reset all again.

Save yourself some time and turn on Persistent Banner Alerts for the Messages app in Settings-Notifications. That's what I've done until Apple fixes the problem ... assuming they ever will, since there's been no acknowledgement from Cupertino that there even IS a problem.

yes, we are all having issues with the App Badge not working for messages on ipad. It is a known issue at this point. I've filed a case with Apple for this and hoping for a fix in 11.2.5

Fwiw ... I personally won't be performing an unpredictable reset of my iPad in an attempt to fix this. Instead, I intend to wait until Apple fixes the problem that was clearly introduced in a recent iOS update (11.2.1?). Just an acknowledgement from Apple that the problem exists would be a step in the right direction. Missed 3-4 more messages today because of this. 😠

I just updated this monring—still no badge icon until turned the iPad off and then back on. I did NOT reset.

So far so good! Messages badge icon is working on the ipad, iphone, & macbook pro....

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Fyi ... still working here, 4 days after installing iOS 11.2.2 🙂

Well, I take that back. Count me among those who've reported that 11.2.2 corrected the problem, only to have it reappear a few days later. As of this morning, the red badge icon is once again not showing up and I'm missing messages again. As I've reported already, the banner alert and audio chime haven't been affected, just the badge. Hey Apple ... tons of free troubleshooting by your customers here and there's a definitive pattern. Aren't there any employees in Cupertino who own iPads? If so, would you kindly send TC a link to this thread? Thanks. 😠

Same iPad mini same problem. It started as an island when I had 11.2.1. When I updated to 11.2.2 it worked. But today it stopped working. I think it has something to do when the iPad is connected to the iPhone. The badge app icon appears on the phone but stopped coming up on the iPad.

I also have this same issue, started with saying i had 2 unread. I could not get it to go away. I wiped it out and started the whole ipad from scratch. It fixed it for 2 days then i updated to 11.2.2 and now i get no badge notification for messages. I do not want to redo this whole system again