Clear notifications badge without removing notifications

Question

In my app, I'm receiving push notifications with badge number set to one. When app will start, it should set badges count to 0, so I'm using:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setApplicationIconBadgeNumber:0];

And it works, but also it removes all notifications from notifications center.
Is there a way to clear badges without removing notifications?

Check this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8682051/ios-application-how-to-clear-notifications — DipakSonara, May 15 '14 at 10:07

score 10 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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According to this topic:

How to clear badge number while preserving notification center

setting:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setApplicationIconBadgeNumber:-1];

should do the trick.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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answered May 15 '14 at 12:44

zdolniacha

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score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 13 '16 at 08:50

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With iOS9 directly setting badge to negative still clears notifications. You must fire empty UILocalNotification with negative badgenumber to achieve this.

let ln = UILocalNotification()
ln.applicationIconBadgeNumber = -1
UIApplication.sharedApplication().presentLocalNotificationNow(ln)

answered Sep 13 '16 at 08:50

Juuso Ohra-aho

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It works but its a hack, Apple may handle this in future iOS versions. – Irfan Gul Jan 20 '17 at 07:02

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 24 '17 at 06:49

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@feb for ios 9+ you need to set 0 not -1 for that you need to add version condition

    if #available(iOS 9.0, *) {
        UIApplication.shared.applicationIconBadgeNumber = 0
    }else{
        UIApplication.sharedApplication().applicationIconBadgeNumber = -1
    }

answered Nov 24 '17 at 06:49

Kiran Sarvaiya

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This worked in ios 9, but no longer in ios 10 and 11 – fabb Nov 24 '17 at 06:50
this is working now on my code, am also looking for this solution. thanks @KiranSarvaiya – Rishu Gupta Nov 24 '17 at 06:55
But 0 will delete all notifications which i do not want – fabb Nov 24 '17 at 07:02
please check https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37789581/clear-applicationiconbadgenumber-without-removing-notifications-not-working/41758039#41758039 – Kiran Sarvaiya Nov 24 '17 at 07:06

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