Anyone else a bit challenged by Apple's count of unread messages today?

[jhwalker]

Frankly, a bit anxious about getting through all those ... 🤣

 

[rm5]

This has gotta be a glitch. Is there a way to reproduce it on my end?

 

[floral]

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[jhwalker]

This has gotta be a glitch. Is there a way to reproduce it on my end?

Yes. There were only 3 unread items displayed at the time 😛

 

[GMShadow]

I had something similar happen once - Settings told me my available iCloud storage was something like -12GB. Are you on a beta by chance?

 

[jhwalker]

I had something similar happen once - Settings told me my available iCloud storage was something like -12GB. Are you on a beta by chance?

Always 😉 and as soon as I refreshed the screen it went back to "3".

I just thought it was funny for the moment it was on my screen.

 

[chown33]

If you read one million messages per second (1 microsecond/msg), it would take about 292 years to get through that many. Or in more biblical terms, "unto the 10th generation".

Oh, and that's assuming the servers stayed up that long.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

If you read one million messages per second (1 microsecond/msg), it would take about 292 years to get through that many. Or in more biblical terms, "unto the 10th generation".

Oh, and that's assuming the servers stayed up that long.

This gives me some idea. Curious about how long it's going to take me to read my 2.4 million active unread emails. 😱

 

[pdacton]

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Frankly, a bit anxious about getting through all those ... 🤣

That number is 2^63 - probably a 64-bit signed integer that rolled over the wrong way and got presented as an unsigned integer (my code does that all the time!).