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How to Hide the Red Notification Badges on Any Samsung Galaxy Device

Oct 16, 2015 11:59 PM

Dec 23, 2015 09:55 PM

Facebook app notification on smartphone screen.

On all Samsung Galaxy models, certain messaging and social media applications provide red badges on their home screen icons that indicate the number of notifications you've received. If you're like me, you probably don't appreciate these indicators. But thankfully, they're easy enough to get rid of. You just have to know where to look.

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On your device, navigate to Settings -> Application Manager -> All -> BadgeProvider. Within these preferences, select Force Stop, then Disable.

Application manager interface displaying various installed apps on a mobile device.

App information screen showing storage details and options for clearing cache and data.

Restart your device and you'll notice that any pre-existing app icon badges are now gone, and no new ones will show up.

Smartphone screen displaying time, temperature, and various app icons.

Smartphone home screen displaying apps and current weather.

Unfortunately, this is an all or nothing approach, so if you just wanted to disable one app's notification badges, you're out of luck for now. You have to kill them all, or leave them all on.

To get the badges back, all you have to do is navigate to the BadgeProvider settings again and enable the service.

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