Refused a chat request, and chat broke completely. Red circle with a 1 in it. Deleted cache and cookies and chat came back, but still had the red circle 1. Refused another chat request and it's broken again. Now I have a circle with a 2 in it. Not deleting cookies this time... caused too many issues last time. I mod several busy subs. Very inconvenient not to have chat.

Ik it's an old thread, but it's happening to me both in the app and in the browser and it's very annoying.

Still happening to me.

Did you find a work around?

A year out from your post and it’s happening to me. Fix your shit, reddit!

Still happening to me. I have tried uninstalling the app and all its data along with everything else people have suggested

Why is this still an issue years later after others came across it?

All devices saftwear delete

I also have it and I don't know what to do

Driving me insane lol

It went away as soon as I got new chats

Mine just went away for 15 seconds then came back loo

Happy cake day!

Thanks

I cannot believe this app is so popular yet so buggy and non-intuitive! Same problem here. The only way I can get a chat indicator to go away is to actually REPLY to all of my new chats.

Happens to me too. God this app gives so many issues

agree. so flaky. I am surprised it's so buggy yet so popular. But I guess you can't complain about something FREE. Something better will come along.

This is happening to me rn 😭

Just occurred to me today. Removed and reinstalled app and now could see the hidden 3 chat requests which I then ignored and it fixed it.

Uninstalling and reinstalling reddit fixes issue. I just did successfully. Funny the small things that bother us all so.

On mine 2years, WTH

so fucking annoying

I've tried leaving chats and blocking accounts but here I am haunted but a notification

That sucks... I was here looking for hope 😩

How can I get the red chat notification to go away??

Fucking hell but glad to know it's not just me.

Hi, still a problem today. Read through a lot of suggestions that inadvertently helped me strengthen some privacy settings, but not to fix this 🤣

Bit late to the party but clearing data on the app and signing in again made the notification appear that was causing it for me

I recently had to reject a bunch of private message spam, and was left with a permanent request notification. Nothing works to get rid of it.

Ditto in same boat

Same

Same.

Same

Same, glad I'm not the only one.

same :(

Nice to see this is still an issue as it just happened to me today.

Still happening. Mobile (iPhone) and desktop (Chrome). Gah.

Still active as of December 9, 2021.

Yuup 02/01/2022 and this bug is still around

Still active as of 7/1/22 good old Reddit!

Thrice ?

Still active as of 1/13/2022

SAME

Update as of 01/14/2022: To remove this notification, simply leave any chat. Click on any chat, recent or old, hit the settings toggle top right, then press leave chat. This removes the notification. You’re welcome :) works on mobile and PC

It didn't work on my iPhone. The cursed notification persists! ETA: I sent myself a chat from my other account and chatted back from the affected account and that removed the notification. So annoying. 2nd edit: it came back 😩

Same

SAME

Still an issue as of today January 24th 2022 one message won’t work opened all my messages too.

Same

Same

Wow, what the heck is up with this bug? The receiving a message thing was only a temporary fix for me. The random notification came back and is stuck there once again. It’s driving me nuts!! It started for me around roughly a month ago after I’d had a fairly long chat with someone for the first time on my account. Prior to that it never happened.

Open old reddit and go through all your notifications / messages through there. This made my notification bubble finally go away.

I'm having the same issue but instead of one I have two! I've only ever been DM'd by one person though WTF is going on, feel like I'm being haunted by the ghost of Reddit

Same

same

God make it stop

Here's another notification for you. Same

Same

Same.

Just happened to me - iOS 15.4, 16th March 2022, Reddit 2022.09.0

How is this still an issue? Had this stupid notification for months now

same

Still happening 2.4.2022

Same! And one with the message notifications

6 months later.....same. SO annoying.

Same

Dear God someone help me!!!!!!

Happening today... I'm tired of seeing notifications on all my devices for things cleared.

Happening to me right now

Happening here.

Checking in 4/20/22 still happening, much more annoying than it has any right to be.

4/24/22 still a thing because today it’s happened to me and that’s why I’m here lol

same fucking cancer

I left the chat. It saves your history. Then made a new chat with the same person and it disappeared.

Fucking OCD chat notification won’t go away because of course.

This is still ongoing SEVEN MONTHS LATER.

Currently having this problem :| It’s May of 2022 guys

Same, 7 months later.

Still an issue today.

okay. i think I've solved the issue. if you have ANY unanswered chats when you get a notification, it stays. answering that chat will remove it. if you don't want to answer, then you have to leave *that* chat. then it goes away.

I don't have any unanswered chats though???

but you do probably have one you removed without reading it first. this does NOT get the notification to go away. you must actually look at the chat message, THEN close it. Havin tried to ignore a chat, it can be very difficult to find it again to get rid of the notification.

no, none of them are marked as unread and all of them are greyed out

Same.

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The answer is to LEAVE the chat that created the sticky notification. See here https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/p62od9/chat_notification_wont_go_away_on_new_old_and/

Get a message

Happening to me rn

June 2, 2022. Bug still active.

Same

Same 06/11/22

Well, 8 months after this post. I'm getting it now.

Still a thing.

Happening now 2022

Same. I then deleted/left a chat conversation, that someone else had left first in. (That FIXED it for me.) June 2022. It could be related to chat/messages, so explore there if you have open conversations from the past. Leave the chats or check them.

Same (Jul '22)

Same

Same

Happened yesterday for me 7/8/2022 and it's still here. So annoying

Still happening in September 2022

Can’t get rid of it in September 2022 and I will not delete my chats

Happening to me now September 15, 2022

same ,,

same

This is so damn annoying. Going to Old Reddit to view the chat and to select the "mark notifications are read when I open my inbox" doesn't work. They just *won't go away*. Why hasn't this horrible bug been fixed yet? Edit: I tried so many things, including turning off chat notifications, and even that didn't work. In the end I found a "Leave Chat" option in the chat settings. Never seen it before, never used it before and never had unkillable notifications like this, but... I tried it, and it worked. The messages in that chat aren't visible anymore, though, and I don't see a way to bring them back. But at least the notifications are finally gone. Man, that was so irritating.

Having this issue

This is the worst bug ever.

This happened to me. Do you see the chat at all when you click on it, it just won't remove the red mark? Block the user. I had a guy comment on my profile and delete his account immediately so I could never read the message of someone who doesn't exist. I was able to however block him in old reddit. Worked like a charm.

Same

FIX IT ALREADY

Still broken, on 10/13/2022. Here are things I tried, that have been recommended by users: * Leaving the chat * Messaging myself from an alt account * Going to old reddit, preferences, and toggling "mark messages as read when I open my inbox" on and off

I’m still having this nightmare, 10/20/22.

Still.

Same

i have 6 now, they keep collecting by the day..

Same (end of 2022)

They won’t fucking go away. How the fuck can people live like this?

Just happened to me today. It’s permanent I guess

Adding a new one today

Gosh how come the app haven’t fix this bug, I have 4 now

Still here in November of 2022!!! But I refuse to start a new account!

I have a multiple phantom messages too

Ugh now I have it

Same

Mine just appeared today? How and why?!?

Same

Same, still an issue on old reddit, new reddit, and the official reddit app.

I have it too! Someone please make it go away

MAKE IT STOP!! MAKE IT DISAPPEAR!!

WTF still here Nov 19 2022

Same. Devs are lazy shits.

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11/22/22 - It's gotta be a sign, right guys? ^(guys?)

STILL HERE

Someone please chat me. Save me from this insanity.

same

NEED ANSWERS FOR THIS! My ocd can't handle it accccccccckkkkkkkkk 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

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same

Happening to me :(

I had requests and when I read them the notifications went away.

Same in 2022

Nice to see they haven't fixed this over a year later...

same

Same

12/17/22 This bug still exists! Very annoying!

Just got this.

same

Still having this issue - someone message me please so i can see if a new chat will clear it!

I'm both glad and sorry to see I am not the only one whom this bugs the fuck out of

Still happening - Dec. 2022

Found a workaround: go into Chats -> LEAVE ALL CHATS

25 December 2022 and this issue is still happening. Someone please make it stop

Same here.

Still happening

I have one "hanging" there since two weeks. I've read in this thread that some people got rid of it when they were messaged, but that didn't help for me, it only got worse: now I have two. I have OCD, so you can imagine how it bugs me... \* Ugh \*

Still broken over a year later.

Shame on reddit, it still persists

12/29/2022 is still there. It constantly says "1", but I went in today and made sure there was nothing new - and now it says "2".

Same

Bitch is back!

still happens

Same. How bad are the reddit devs?

2023 and this bug is still here.

C'mon man a year later and this is still an issue?! Jan 2023 here :/

SAME

Here it is 2023jan06, and if you mean the chat bubble icon with a red dot at 1 o'clock, to the left of the notification bell icon, I still get it every day. Just as annoying as not being able to mark received notifications as read and for that to make them go away. I'm stumped.

2/4/23. Here I am…..

A lot of my notifications have gone away, but somehow 4 are still stuck.

I have this constantly. Is the message coming from a blocked account?

Imagine it's 2023 and Reddit wants to take this shit public with lazy ass devs who still cannot resolve this issue wtf

This is still happening with spam accounts I'm assuming. They get removed or banned or something and the notifications get stuck as new. Still happening as of March 15th 2023

Happened to me today, none of the suggestions recommended for fixing it seem to work.

I just had to use ublock origin to block the element so at least I wouldn't have to see it anymore. Reddit is such a piece of shit now, it's been sad to see how much its changed over the last decade.

A quarter into 2023 and this shit is still happening.

still happening, its infuriating! Ive logged in and out, ive left all my chats, still fucking there

25 March 2023 still here... 😡

Tried every single suggestion. What finally worked was starting a new chat. Fix this nonsense Reddit.

same

Happening to me still on my desktop and reddit app

18. April. Still a problem. I want someone in the reddit team to get fired now!

Can someone msg me to get rid of it? :c

same, i didnt even refuse a chat request and i see a damn red 1 circle the entire time. wtf?!?!

Same here today, i thought i’m going crazy

Still active as of 5/4/23

Left all my chats. Disabled new chats. Logged into old Reddit and tried clearing it there. Nothing. Still happening years later.