topic Re: Persistent Notification Badge Issue After Clearing Notification Panel in Mobile Apps & Services

Persistent Notification Badge Issue After Clearing Notification Panel

Hlnaveen — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 03:02:27 GMT

The way notification badges disappear after
clearing the notification panel has been an
ongoing issue with Samsung devices, even
back in the Samsung Experience days, and
iť's still there in One UI. Right now, if I swipe
away a notification, the badge on the app
icon disappears too, even if I haven't read or
dealt with it yet.

This gets really frustrating, especially if I accidentally clear a notification.Once it’s gone, there’s no easy way to know if I missed something important unless I open every single app to check manually. It kind of defeats the whole purpose of having notification badges in the first place, doesn’t it? They’re supposed to remind us about what still needs attention.

It’s a small issue, sure, but it’s one of those little things that adds up and makes the experience less smooth.I really hope this gets fixed in the next future Update.

Re: Persistent Notification Badge Issue After Clearing Notification Panel

Windroid — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 03:38:11 GMT

Hello there

In short. You need the badge that shows the number of notifications on the app icon to stay after you clear the notification from the quick panel. Correct?

Re: Persistent Notification Badge Issue After Clearing Notification Panel

Hlnaveen — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 04:12:01 GMT

Yes, exactly...

Re: Persistent Notification Badge Issue After Clearing Notification Panel

Windroid — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 12:12:13 GMT

I don't think that's possible. The settings don't allow that.
Once the notification is removed from the notification panel, the badge also disappears from the top right corner of the app. They are interconnected and can not be separated at the moment

Re: Persistent Notification Badge Issue After Clearing Notification Panel

AndrewL — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 11:07:23 GMT

@Hlnaveen : All I can suggest is that you avoid clearing your notification panel, and this will leave the app icon badge in place. At the moment, the system believes that you have been notified of the messages via the notification panel, therefore the icon badge is no longer required if the notifications have been manually cleared. I apologise for any inconvenience this may cause you.

If you do accidentally clear your notifications, then please head to Settings > Notifications > Advanced settings > Notification history, and they will be visible here.

Re: Persistent Notification Badge Issue After Clearing Notification Panel

Mir0slav — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 02:20:34 GMT

Thanks Andrew, I see that this "issue" has been a subject on the Community Forum numerous times in the past three years.

Do you know by any chance if this is ever going to be resolved by giving user a choice if they want the badge to show the count of notifications from the tray versus the actual count of unread notifications from the app?

Regards,

Re: Persistent Notification Badge Issue After Clearing Notification Panel

Brandon80 — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 04:41:56 GMT

Exactly, for a much as these phones can do. It's real petty that they took that away. This should have been fixed years ago! We pay way too much for these phones not to have a basic feature.

Re: Persistent Notification Badge Issue After Clearing Notification Panel

Ozipuppy — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 09:28:17 GMT

I'm jumping on this chain as I have just moved to Samsung after 18 years on the iPhone and I'm also finding this very small and probably an easy to fix issue as annoying as the commoents.

Re: Persistent Notification Badge Issue After Clearing Notification Panel

Courtney96 — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 19:28:49 GMT

Idk if you're still having the issue but I just after like many years came across a subreddit who mentioned downloading Microsoft Launcher and this has helped. If you clear your notification panel, the badge icon stays which I like. However it will clear if you open the app.

Re: Persistent Notification Badge Issue After Clearing Notification Panel

Courtney96 — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 19:31:38 GMT

Need to make an edit - there is actually an option that you can uncheck - open apps to reset notification badges. They don't clear !!

Re: Persistent Notification Badge Issue After Clearing Notification Panel

cstahl00 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 16:54:37 GMT

What the setting to change this under?

Re: Persistent Notification Badge Issue After Clearing Notification Panel

Bethbroo — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:21:47 GMT

Any update on this?? Long time Samsung user here but switch to iPhone year and a half ago and just switched back last week and this is so annoying. I don't recall this being an issue when I was on Samsung prior and definitely wasn't an issue with the iPhone LOL