Thank you for your message. As I was trying to describe another response, it appears I may be mis-representing my issue with how I have phrased it. And perhaps it is not necessarily related to the VIP designation. Let me try to describe the issue more specifically:
The Mail icon at the bottom of my phone has a red circle next to it with a number in it. This number has always represented the number of VIP messages that I have which are marked as "Not read". This is across all accounts. If I have 12 unread messages in one account, nothing shows up in that red circle unless one or more of them are from a VIP sender and that message hasn't been opened/read. As soon as I open the message, the number in the red circle decreases or goes away when it's zero.
Since I added the Gmail account, all unread messages for that account get included in the number that is in the red circle next to my Mail icon, even though they are not from VIP senders. When I got to the VIP inbox, I do not see the Gmail messages so maybe I was previously describing my problem the wrong way.
Perhaps there is a different solution to have the count of unread messages from my Gmail account not included in the Mail icon notification. In other words, I would like it to work the same as my other two email accounts.
Thank you and sorry for the earlier confusion.
