Apple watch notification showing unread message

My Apple Watch is showing that I have an unread message but I don’t. And before anyone comments, no I didn’t read a message on my phone and not the watch. I already know if you delete or read a message on the iphone it can still show on the watch so I always open it on both. I deleted all messages from my watch and I don’t have anything unread. I turned it off and mirrored/resynced to my phone multiple times and it still shows this. This isn’t the first time this has happened I have to deal with this at least once a month. Why does this continue to happen and is there a way to stop this?

Posted on Mar 2, 2023 12:52 PM

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Posted on Mar 2, 2023 12:58 PM

The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support



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Mar 2, 2023 12:58 PM in response to risharr

The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support



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