2024-09-27

[SOLVED] Messages app on my iPhone shows more unread messages than I can see

 

Solution: Ask Siri to read your unread messages.  Siri will read the ones you can't find by scrolling through your conversation list in the app and you can watch the badge count drop with each message read to you.

Thanks to this discussion on Apple's Community.

For months, and across multiple iOS versions, my Messages app was showing 4 unread messages every time I went through and made sure all visibly unread messages were read.  Even selecting to filter on unread message only, the app would show that I had no unread messages, but the badge remained.

I tried:

  • Scrolling through my entire conversation history until I couldn't scroll anymore.
  • Disable the app, power off the phone, reboot, enable the app
  • Disabling and re-enabling notifications
I didn't try a System Reset.

I can't express enough thanks to "Jorph" on the Apple Community for telling me the simple fix to ask Siri to "read my unread messages"!  It was interesting to hear which ones were still counted as unread, and I still don't understand why they were counted in some way as unread, but not showing as such in the app.

If you find yourself in the same boat, try out that workaround and see if it works for you!  If you discovered the reason for the discrepancy, please comment and let us all know what happened.  I hope this helps someone else.




2024-02-15

PYLE PMXU128BT - Play music from laptop using USB out from laptop to USB in on mixer

Make sure the mixer's power is turned on!!!

I connected my laptop to my PYLE PMXU128BT via USB, trying to play music to the mixer from the laptop.  It lit up nicely but showed the "To PC" icon on the display.  No music came out when I slid the MP3 and "MAIN OUT" volume sliders up.  I understood that the mixer should support this but it didn't seem to.

I contacted PYLE support and the friendly agent informed me that the USB port is only one direction, out from the mixer to the PC.

What didn't make sense to me was that my laptop was showing the mixer as the Output Device.

After ending my online chat with PYLE support, it dawned on me that I hadn't turned the power on to the mixer!!!  I realized that if you don't turn the power on, the board will still work in
mixer >> USB >> laptop mode, so the "To PC" icon was correct.

As soon as I turned the mixer's power on, it started playing my music out through the mixer to my sound system!!  So it appears the USB port is bi-directional after all, you just need to make sure that power is flowing through the mixer.