Q: Cannot clear Facetime's "red dot" of missed calls.  Help!

TThanks that fixed it

Go to System Preferences > Choose Notifications > Uncheck Badge app icon.

time is going, 3 years since this post was made, but in El Capitan the same problem, is it really so hard to fix this bug for 3 years?!

i turned off a missed call badge in facetime, but now i can't see if there was a missed call...

Hi,

I have had the same problem for a while.

I found a solution today.

Checking my iPhone I found two missing calls there.

They were not flagged on the phone but opening the app on the phone showed them.

After clearing those the red dot went away on my laptop.

A bit cloudy I guess...

If the notification was synchronised on all devices it would be easier to understand.

A bug indeed in my humble opinion.

I just had this issue occur for me as well with El Capitan. RIght clicking on the Dock icon was of no help. But, if you start Facetime and you have the list of calls, right click on the item in that list and you'll get an option to remove it. Voila'

This worked for me! Indeed I already had empty lists on the Mac, but only when I cleared the lists on iPhone, the badge icon on Mac finally disappeared, a few seconds later.

Thanks a lot vikfors!

What everyone is seeing to this particular problem is the "Notification Badge app icon" for FaceTime, Not a missed call although it shows the same Red indicator as well.

All you need to do is go to system preferences->Notifications-> and scroll down to FaceTime. Look to the right of that and if your like me you uncheck the  Badge App icon box and you should see that annoying red notification disappear.

Now I don't know if its a bug or a conflict with the new OS X El Capitan or other OS versions but this will fix that problem.

Let me know if this works for everyone.

OS X El Capitan Version 10.11.12

Why are we getting all of these iOS fixes when the Op clearly has a problem with a MacBook?

I have a (recently appeared) red dot on my FaceTime dock icon, but no missed calls at all showing when I open FaceTime.  Most annoying.

Seems on mine that as I have phone calls synced between iPhone and iPad and if I miss a call the red symbol comes up on iPad FaceTime. Go to audio and delete or clear list. Red notification goes as well

Why are you still talking about iPhone and iPad fixes in response to a question about FaceTime on a Macbook Pro, in a forum entitled 'FaceTime for Mac'?

SOLUTION that worked for me using MacBook Pro:

1. Open Launchpad.

2. Open System Preferences.

3. Open "Notifications" (for me, top row & furthest to the right).

4. Click on "Facetime."

5. Uncheck box labeled, "Badge app icon."

Should resolve the issue.

That would indeed clear the badge app icon, but it also turns it off permanently. I don't think the issue is that we don't want the badge app icon, its that we don't want the badge app icon that should not be there and there does not yet appear to be a straightforward way to deal with that.

worked, thanks!

I've been having the same problem as well. All you have to do is open Facetime from Docks, click and hold on the facetime logo and a set of options will appear. Select 'Quit' and that should remove the red dot.

I deleted this file, emptied the trash, and rebooted.   The missed call indicator is still showing up.