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Notification badge bugs

2024-10-30 00:00

If there is one category of bugs that drive me nuts beyond anything else, it got to be buggy or unreliable notification badges.

Some of my favorites are:

  • When you can’t figure out how to clear all or one of them
  • When they clear when you just open the app
    • Even worse: that state is reset the next time a notification happens and you get the old number + 1
  • When you have to restart the app for it to update properly, sometimes
  • When in an messaging app they count number of unread entries” not the number of conversations” that has something unread.
    • If I send you 5 messages it would increase the count by 5

Made with ❤️ in Bergen, Norway by Eivind Hjertnes