Will this work re: iCloud Messages badge not working?

[donawalt]

I think I have corruption on my iPad Pro 11", iOS 12.4 with Messages, it all works fine except I get no badges when unread messages come in.

I have iCloud Messages set up and synced between this iPad, and iPhone, and a MacBook Pro.

I have tried restoring backups, hard resets, all combinations of stopping the app, toggling the badges in notifications, etc., with no luck. By the way there are tons of people who have issues with the badges not working on iOS Messages, but I have not found a reliable solution except possibly installing new.

I really don't want to install new and download and configure many many apps, so I thought of this to see if the corruption goes away:

1. Turn off iCloud Messages on iPad.
2. As a test, delete 1 message.
3. Turn on iCloud Messages.

Will the deleted message come back? If it does, then I can turn off iCloud messages, delete every messages, turn on iCloud messages, and let it repopulate - and then I can see if the badges comes back. This is how Contacts works if stored in iCloud (except with Contacts it gives you the option to delete or retain the local copy).

What do you think of this, or is there another way I can attempt to fix this?

 

[donawalt]

OK so I took the first step, turned off Messages in iCloud, waited a little while, deleted a Message, and turned it back on, on my iPad.

The deleted message was not deleted on the Mac and iPhone still connected to iCloud Messages (good!). But I then waited about 20 minutes, and the deleted message did not show up on the iPad after it was reconnected with Messages in iCloud! So then, as it was a test message, I typed a reply and sent it - then, the reply and original message showed up on my iPad. Was this due to having Text Message Forwarding set up on my iPhone, to my iPad? Do I have to have the iPad connected to power (not battery) to download iCloud Messages?

From what I have seen, if I remove a device/iPad from Messages in iCloud, then delete all the messages on that device, then re-add the device/iPad to iCloud Messages, NO messages will be downloaded, until possibly they are continued as a thread with a new message. I can't possibly work that way, does it??

 

[donawalt]

Does anyone have any experience on this issue?