Red dot on the phone icon

I just found out how to fix this from another site and it worked!

1) Go to Notifications --> Phone and turn OFF the Badge icon.

2) Verify that your voicemail is working by sending yourself a message from another phone and then deleting it. ( I skipped

this step and the process still worked)

3) Go back to Notifications--> Phone and turn the Badge icon back on.

4) Restart your phone, and the red circle should now be gone from your Phone icon.

Good luck!

Check and clear all your voicemails including saved ones.

My solution that worked:

Call the offending phone and leave another voicemail. My Red dot disappeared after listening too and deleting the new voice message.

Mine cleared after I dialed and listened to my voicemail messages, even though the voicemail icon in the bottom right corner didn’t show that there were messages pending.

Hey, I had the same issue after updating my iPhone 13; it cleared after listening to my voicemails

Thanks. I did what you said, checked voice messages even tho it indicated no message. There was actually one new new voice message, heard it and then the red dot cleared.

I listened to the message which was in Chinese and then after that the red dot disappeared.

Just restart phone. Went away

It did clear when I called my phone, left a message and deleted it. Still lost all call history though.

Same for me. Message was there, listened and no more red dot. No msg waiting indicator. Apple seems to be borrowing features (aka bugs) from Microsoft!

I have the same issue on my iPhone 12. Since updating my iPhone 12 to ios16.1 I have a large red dot on the phone icon. I have no messages pending, no missed calls etc. Anyone know why or how I can get rid of it?

I tried all of the steps that SuuVee recommends including Step 2 and this did not resolve the issue for me. The Red Dot still appears with no messages pending, no missed calls etc.

Does anyonehave any additional suggestions for how I can get rid of it?

Thanks.

I just received a “Bell” phone call that I deleted and then was sent a voice mail that is on Chinese then the blank red dot appeared on the phone icon. Article indicated a change only voicemail password or other nefarious possibilities.

solution please

Me too.

Same thing on our iPhone SE running 16.1.2

... and we chose NOT to have a voice mail, so there cannot be a voice message waiting.

And we cannot go and check if we have a voice mail message in the different procedures proposed because we dont have a voice mail.

I have same problem