iMessage notifications won’t go away

Hi SkimAJ. Supposedly, this is fixed in iOS 11.2.2. Have you tried updating?

Yes, my iPad was/is running iOS 11.2.2. It still had that issue.

I am having the same issue and it started right after I did the 11.2.2 Update. I tried everyone of the above fixes and nothing works. 😠 Very frustrating.

Seriously, the only fix is to completely reinstall iOS on the iPad??

That doesn’t seem like a very intelligent solution!!!

Apple, really? No other ideas??

Hi,

On my iPhone SE it doesn't work - screen just goes black after the Apple logo appears. The other method doesn't do anything.

I tried everything on all of the responses.

What DID work to remove the error badge: HARD REBOOT

Good luck, this was so annoying.

Thank you very much. By far the easiest fix I found for this problem. Worked like a charm. Thank you!

Knawskep‘s suggestion worked for me too! Except I didn’t have any unseen messages. Thank goodness I didn’t have to do a clean reinstall that would have been Painful. Thanks!! 🙂

Here’s what worked for me. Go to Settings, Messages. Turn Messages off (which signs you out). Turn it back on and at the prompt, sign in.

Thanks a lot, kanewskep. It worked like a charm for me. The false badge has completely dissappeared.

I just signed out of iCloud restarted the iPad and it cleared.

I wasn’t ready to do a complete reset. I just procrastinated. And suddenly, a new Apple update fixed the problem by itself. Phew !Yay !

That’s a ridiculously complicated solution to a trivial problem. It should be easier to fix. Or better yet, never happen in the first place.

Many thanks for this very simple solution. I had this problem on an iPad mini with all updates installed. No hidden messages seen but the annoying icon has now disappeard.

This worked for me also! Thanks!!!