"Icon badges" refers to small graphical indicators or symbols that are displayed on an icon, often on a smartphone or computer screen, to provide quick information or notifications about a specific app or feature.
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While you can't turn
icon badges on and off for individual apps, you can disable all badges if you want.
When you return to the previous screen, you can use the list below to disable
icon badges for any app.
Head into settings > notifications >
app icon badges and you'll find this option at the bottom of the page under «show notifications».
Colored notifications and notification channels, along
with icon badges, all add up to a much better experience, especially when you receive hundreds of them a day.
In addition, you can choose the notification sound, turn vibrate on or off, and disable the app
icon badge if you like.
It could start by taking tips from this iOS 11 concept, which imagines more
informative icon badges and support for complications similar to those on Apple Watch.
Personally, I never really understood the disconnect
between icon badges and notifications in iOS.
Since the very introduction of Notification Center in iOS 5,
icon badges don't clear off automatically if you clear off the notification from the app.
There will also be
app icon badges for active notifications, letting you quickly see how many notifications you have for any app straight from the home screen — a feature sorely missing from stock Android.
Samsung provides several customization options for app
icon badges.
Choose «App
Icon Badges,» which will present you with a few choices.
The priority, whether it makes a sound, whether or not it vibrates, if it displays as
an icon badge, whether it shows in the lock screen, and if it overrides do not disturb mode.
To enable and customize this feature, open Settings, tap «Notifications,» then choose «App
Icon Badges.»
As informative as they can be, the new app
icon badges and unread counts on the Galaxy S9's home screen are a little redundant since Android already has a notification center.
Show app icon notification badges:
Icon badges are quite new to Android, letting each app show you how many notifications you have.
Head into settings > notifications > app
icon badges.
View your app notifications with a long press on an app shortcut: This is quite an advanced expansion of
the icon badges.
Similarly,
Icon Badging has been moved from this area and instead appears as a Notification Dots toggle in the Notifications settings menu.
An Icon Badge option now appears in the home screen settings, which enables app notification dots (although these only seem to appear in a single color right now).
Locate «App
Icon Badges» and disable the switch next to it.
From here you can adjust icon size, change your grid layout, disable app
icon badges, and more.
Now, on the lockscreen, even if you clear the item, the app's
icon badge will still show that something's pending.
ADW Launcher 2 offers a wealth of features and customization options, such as a dynamically colored interface based on your wallpaper, an indexed app drawer, transitions,
icon badges, app categorization and more.
Android introduced «Notification Dots» in Android Oreo last year — which basically are
icon badges but without the actual number of pending notifications.
If there's one feature we've wanted from iOS for years, it's
icon badges.
Additionally, when you pay for the Job Seeker account your profile gets denoted with
an icon badge and your resume appears above non-Job Seeker Premium applicants.