A classic icon has been updated with iOS 26, which was unveiled this week at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).

You can view notifications on your taskbar with the badges on Taskbar icons. However, if you wish, you can hide badges on Taskbar icons in Windows 11 which are by ...

The iPhone's Focus mode blocks incoming notifications, but it still can allow the red counter badges to appear on your home screen app icons. You can set your Focus mode to hide them when active.

Apple’s bold new app icon update blends modern simplicity with functionality, setting new design standards. Apple’s stunning ...

All those icons staring at me in the face, vying for my attention. The clutter! The distracting little notification badges! The grid was a reasonable way to organize apps when I had like ...

As detailed on the WebKit blog, Home Screen web apps have access to push notifications via the HTML5 standard Web Push API, including badges ... which appear as app icons in your app grid).

You still have to adhere to a grid, but other than that, you can freely place app icons, remove text labels, get dark mode icons, and even tint app icons with a color of your own choice!

It was the same as the “Add to homescreen” shortcut, but without the Google app icon badge in the corner. As of earlier this month, this shortcut was still appearing on newly set-up Pixel phones.