Text message icon always showing "1" message

[clarkee]

Please excuse this if it has come up before, ive done some searching but found no answers.

I have an iPhone 4 running the latest iOS, and it always shows that I have one unread text message.

It always seems to be what ever the last message was off one particular contact. But, if I click that contact to read the message, the back arrow at the top left then shows that there is still an unread message!

When you click back, there isn't one! But if I press the home button, the icon in my dock shows an unread message again!

I have done a restore, and it's the same.

I do not want to have to delete all these messages of this concoct if possible.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

clarkee.

 

[andybno1]

have you clicked on every contacts txt message thread aswell? if you have done everything you can best option would be to delete txt msgs

 

[Mad Mac Maniac]

tell that person to send you another text message. I think that's what usually fixes this for me... I just know that has happened to me probably a dozen times, but goes away on its own later. This has been a bug for a while. I think since 4.0, but it might actually be before that.

 

[ichabodkky]

This has happened to me before. Pull up the multi tasking tray and kill the messaging app. Then re-launch the messaging app and it should go away. That's what works for me.

 

[FSMBP]

If nothing else works, try restarting your iPhone. (Powering it off completely).

 

[SAD*FACED*CLOWN]

tell that person to send you another text message. I think that's what usually fixes this for me... I just know that has happened to me probably a dozen times, but goes away on its own later. This has been a bug for a while. I think since 4.0, but it might actually be before that.

it's a 4.0 bug...when you get another message it will go away or just restart your phone and it will go away

 

[OneMike]

This has happened to me before. Pull up the multi tasking tray and kill the messaging app. Then re-launch the messaging app and it should go away. That's what works for me.

yep, had the same issue with mail before and this resolved it.

 

[clarkee]

Thanks for all of your replies.
Tried all suggestions apart from deleting messages, and none work.
I'll wait to see if the next update fixes it.
If not, I'll start deleting.

Thanks again.

 

[Salukipilot4590]

Happens to me from time to time as well. Kinda an interesting little bug in the iPhone but unless that person sends you another text you're going to need to restart.

Funny...when you think about it...I've actually had to restart both my iPhones more often than my PC.

 

[clarkee]

The person the text is off texts me all the time.
So unfortunately that doesn't work.

Thanks though.

 

[Grimes]

This has happened to me too a few times. Shutting off the iPhone and restarting it fixed it once. Another time, I just had that person text me again and it fixed it. But another time it didn't go away no matter what I did so I ended up deleting the text messages. Kind of a pain, but it solved the problem.

Such a bizarre bug.

 

[clarkee]

A very late response to this i know, but...

I waited for an update, and when ever i updated the iphone to the newest software a few months back, it still showed 1 unread text message. so i left it.

in the end it really started to annoy me, so i deleted all the messages from the contact, as i did this, the iphone reset itself and took a minute or so to come back on, like it does from a hard reset.

when i looked at my texts, they were all gone! every text of every contact id had for months and months!

but at least the '1' has disappeared and nor come back!

clarkee.

 

[jgdemeris]

Thanks for all of your replies.
Tried all suggestions apart from deleting messages, and none work.
I'll wait to see if the next update fixes it.
If not, I'll start deleting.

Thanks again.

The only way to get it to go away from my experience is to delete messages. One of the messages has a glitch in it. You will not know which one until you start deleting.