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Notification badges

marcia4d

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I've searched all over for a solution to this. Even after I have disabled notifications via Settings for Facebook and Twitter, the badges are still appearing on those two apps. I know I can long-press the app icon to clear the badges, but I don't want them to appear in the first place. (I've also clicked on app info and done whatever I could do there.) Help?
 
That's what I meant when I said I already tried this. I guess I didn't explain it right. I also went into Settings---Applications---Show system apps and disabled Badge provider. After that I tried Special access and App permissions. Nothing worked.
 
Also, what's really irritating is that the apps I've turned ON notifications for, like Gmail, never show notifications.
 
Finding out how to clear the cache was not easy, and when I googled it (after searching my phone and Samsung forums), none of the instructions I found corresponded to the selections on my phone. I made the search specific--Samsung Galaxy S7 Android 7.0 Nougat OS. After accessing just about every possible location on my own, I eventually found what I needed under Storage, which showed 0 cache usage for both Facebook and Twitter. I've blocked notifications every way I know how and a few I discovered during this process. The blasted badges are still showing, and I'm done. I removed both apps from my home screen because the badges irritate me to no end. I don't know why they do,, but I swear, I may just uninstall both apps and only look at them on my laptop. Thanks so much for your efforts to help me! I really do appreciate it!
 
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