How to disable icon notification badges on the Galaxy S8
(Android Central)

This could be your favorite feature ... or it could annoy you every single day. One of the features on Android that`s requested frequently, particularly by anyone who`s used an iPhone, is notification badges on app icons. That means that as notifications for that app pile up, a small circle with a number indicating the amount of unread notifications is placed on its icon. Listening to demand, Samsung includes this feature in the Galaxy S8 — but it isn`t perfect. So long as the app supports these notification badges, you`ll see the number of unread notifications on that app icon. Unfortunately, unlike iOS this isn`t a standard framework for Android apps, so only some of your apps have badges while others don`t. That`s annoying. No matter which side of the issue you fall on, we can all agree that having a setting in the phone to turn off these icon badges would be a beneficial thing. Unfortunately, Samsung doesn`t give us such a setting, so we have to go our own way. To get...