Q: How to turn off app badges for Twitter on iOS 8?

Ok, please don't troll this topic.

I have made a video about the bug:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_rpnaFUQTU

This is a timelapse, edited in iMovie to be more clear. The device is an iPad 2 with iOS 8.1. You can see, that I do the following:

1. back up the device, because I need my data back AFTER the video

2. reset the device to factory state

3. don't log in, set up as a new device

4. open App Store, search for Twitter and download it (with my account)

5. open Twitter, log in

6. go to Settings, the option is here (for now)

7. go to Twitter

8. go back to Settings: the option is gone!

9. get a reply on Twitter: the icon badge can be seen

10. go back to Settings again: the option is gone, you cannot turn it off anymore.

Sorry, no twits allowed

#dadjokes

I can't duplicate this on my iPad 2, iPhone 5s, or iPhone 6 Plus.  There is possibly a bug in the twit app running on iOS 8 (remember this thread started before 8.1) and there are posts that it went away after 8.1.  Likewise, this doesn't happen with any other app. 

Did you even try it?

Most recent update for Twitter and still no fix.

I had this problem in my iPhone5s for a while now.

Today I managed to fix it (at least until now, we will see xD)

What I've done:

1) uninstalled Twitter app

2) rebooted iPhone

3) set the date (at least) one day into the future

4) rebooted iPhone

5) set the date/time back to automatic

6) rebooted iPhone

7) installed Twitter app, started it, allowed push notifications

8) I'm now able to disable the badge in settings

Maybe you can skip the first reboot (step 2), idk.

Yes, it works, but the option will disappear again after a while. Please let us know, if not.

I'll keep you updated

Mine disappeared as soon as I turned off the Badge Icon option.

This happened to me when I just uninstalled, rebooted, installed the Twitter app.

But with the method posted earlier I still have the option for the badge avail.

and ... the toggle is gone -.-

But I still don't have a badge ...

I have the same problem on my ipod touch since ios 8. I'd say this is an ios bug

But it doesn't happen on every device and not with every app ...

yup. my ipad seems ok.

Had the same problem on iphone 6 ios 8.1. Had to delete twitter go into settings and delete profile. Sign back in and reinstall twitter. The badge setting shows up.