How to get rid of a persistent macOS Messages badge icon

This happens to me periodically, both on iOS and macOS. Lasts through restarts, eventually goes away all on its own. Read all the way to the end (it’s short) for the thing that solved this for Glenn. Tucking that away in my brain for the next time it happens.



3 thoughts on “How to get rid of a persistent macOS Messages badge icon”

  1. I just wanna know (since my previous attempt seems to have been spamfiltered by over-zealous spurious URL detection) if anyone’s figured out how to stop Mail .app* from randomly opening a window while it runs in the background.

    (* Space because otherwise Disqus thinks it’s a URL and sends to filter-land.)

  2. Has anyone figured out how to stop Mail.app from periodically opening (as in “opening its window”, not “starting running in the background) for no obvious reason?

    Because last time I searched, it was all “yep, it does that, nobody knows why”…

    (Oh, comments, never change. That’s not a URL just because it has “.” and three characters…)

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