Many
iPhone X/7 and iPhone 6s users are facing issue with iOS 11 and iOS 12 that Messages
app icon shows one unread message on the app icon, but there are no unread
messages anywhere in the app left to read. The ghost message issue is also in
iPad as well. This seems like a phantom
address is lying in the iPhone as iPhone shows a number one as an unread text
message and you won’t have any unread messages.
The messages
app notification badge won’t go away when there are no pending SMS. it is annoying and can let user ignore some
important messages due to this issue. The iPhone user tried hard to find out the
unread message but there are none and message app in showing unread badge/notifications.
The issue happen to occur more frequently on iOS11/iOS12 upgrade.
User
can’t really find out why iPhone showing
phantom unread text message indicator one Message app and the message
notification won't go away ios 11 as Notification badges will not clear from
Messages App.
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How to fix iPhone showing ghost unread
message icon :
Fix 1 : Clear the notification
and reset
First
turn off the Notifications in settings. Now restart iphone by power down the
iPhone, power up again, turned on Notifications, now the false indicator should
go away or you should be able to see the unread message.
Fix 2 : Hard reboot
iPhone
Perform
and hard reset to your iPhone by holding the power button and home button until
apple logo appears and a force reboot happens. This fixed the issue fir many
users.
Fix 3 :Login and
logout from icloud
Try by
logging out from the iCloud and restarted the iPad/iPhone. This should clear
the fake unread message notification.
Fix 4: Do iOS
restore
Back up
the iPhone to computer using iTunes. Now use iTunes to reset and restore the
iPad/iPhone. This should get away ghost
notifications from message.
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