What Are Red Numbers on App Icons?
The Red Numbers that appear on App icons are known as Badges and the purpose of Red Number Badges on App Icons is to highlight or bring attention to the number of unread or unopened notifications. If Red Numbers are appearing on App Store Icon, the Number on the Red Badge indicates the number of Apps for which Updates are available on the App Store. While Badge Icons with attention grabbing Red Numbers are useful in highlighting Unread Notifications, there are some users who do not want the simple look of App Icons being marred by the appearance of Red Numbers. Hence, iPhone provides the option to remove Red Numbers from App icons. However, there is no global option on iPhone to remove Red Numbers for all Apps at once, it can only be done on an App by App basis.
Remove Red Numbers From App Icons on iPhone
Follow the steps to remove red number from App Icons on iPhone. Open Settings > scroll down and tap on Notifications.
On Notifications screen, select the App for which you want to remove Red Number Notification badge.
On the next screen, move the toggle next to Badge App Icon to OFF position.
After this, you will no longer see Red Numbers or Red Badges appearing at top-right corner of App icons on your iPhone. As mentioned above, there is no global option in iOS to remove Red Badge App Icons for all Apps. Hence, you will have to repeat the above steps for other Apps from which you want to remove Red Numbers.
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