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Older cleared Messages/iMessage shown in Notifications

twanj

twanj

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I noticed since updating to Sequoia, I will frequently see older read and cleared Messages/iMessage notification in the upper right of the screen (if you click the time in the menu bar.

These will be Messages that I've already gotten on my phone over the last day or overnight and have read. It's not a big deal to clear them out, but wondering if anyone else is having this annoyance.

It didn't use to do this on the older version and with iOS 17. Before, if you read the Messages on your phone, it wouldn't show on my MBP.
 
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Here's an example if I didn't explain correctly.

This message and others after it came in about an hour ago on my phone and I read them. Then this is here like I hadn't read it. I can clear it but sometimes a bunch stack up that I've already read. Odd.
 
Yes I'm having this exact same issue.

Messages that have been read on my iPhone will still show up in my Mac's notification center - this has been going on since I upgraded to Sequoia and is still happening with 15.1 (and I'm using iOS 18.1).

What's weird is that there is no red unread badge on the Messages app icon on my Mac's dock, so the messages are assumed by my Mac to be read just like they are on my iPhone, but they still show up in my notification center and I have to manually clear them which is annoying.

I also have Messages in iCloud turned on so my iMessages sync across devices.
 
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Yes, let me echo what you said...good points!

I've been running the latest iOS (18, 18.0.1, 18.1) on a 16 Pro and Mac (15, 15.0.1, 15.1) releases on MBP M3.

I was running the 18 public betas (then 18 non betas since the RC) but not the Mac public betas.

Messages also has no red unread badges in the dock and Messages in iCloud turned on as well just like you.
 
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This definitely appears to be a Sequoia bug then. Anybody else experiencing this? Hopefully Apple is aware of this issue.
 
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Yes, it definitely popped up with Sequoia for me.

I haven't reported it to Apple, has anyone else?

Just posted here to see if anyone knew of a fix or workaround.
 
15.1 here and I get them in the Notifications as well as old, stale, previously-deleted-on-my-iPhone ones showing up with a number count in Launchpad > Messages.
This is an upgrade?
 
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Bazza1 said:
15.1 here and I get them in the Notifications as well as old, stale, previously-deleted-on-my-iPhone ones showing up with a number count in Launchpad > Messages.
This is an upgrade?
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So you're seeing an unread count here in Launchpad, but not in the dock?

I don't get an unread count in either. I have a bunch right now...
 
Just here to say "me too". Even a 2FA text message that was automatically deleted persists as an Alert Notification in the upper right portion of my screen. I went from macOS 14.x directly to 15.1, and it started with Sequoia.
 
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thenightfly42 said:
Just here to say "me too". Even a 2FA text message that was automatically deleted persists as an Alert Notification in the upper right portion of my screen. I went from macOS 14.x directly to 15.1, and it started with Sequoia.
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I had upgraded from 14.x directly to 15.0
 
Update: today everything works! I changed nothing. I don't know if Apple could have changed something on the backend, but I haven't applied any updates.
 
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Bazza1 said:
I don't have Messages running / in the Dock - so I only see the count when in Launchpad.

In related news, I get Notifications on my Mac even though I do not have Messages running.
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That makes me wonder if this has something to do with mirroring iOS notifications?
 
So this had me thinking, I looked and I tried out iPhone mirroring with my old phone (15 Pro) then got my new one when the 16 Pro was released.

Just checked and mirroring was still set to my old phone which I don't use anymore, so I set it to the new one now.

Did anyone else with this problem have a similar experience?
I'll let you know if that fixed the issue.
 
I feel like I've had this issue longer than I've been using Sequoia. But I might be wrong. But I would like to add other apps to this. I can't remember all, but I know that Microsoft Teams is one of them.

The procedure is:
- I get messages in Teams that I read on my phone
- I open Notification Center on my mac later where all messages that were read on my phone appear as unread
- The MS Teams app itself shows them as read.

It's like Notification Center is an island that's not in touch with the rest of the eco system.
 
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